Posted on 08/07/2008 12:00:03 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of radical advocacy groups, but even in that context, PETA’s latest advertising campaign sets new lows. Last week, an attacker beheaded and cannibalized a man on a Canadian bus, a revolting crime that made headlines around the world. But where human beings saw tragedy and lunacy, PETA saw … opportunity:
An animal rights group has posted an ad on its website comparing the recent stabbing and decapitation of a young Winnipeg man to how humans kill animals for food.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said the advertisement is meant to make people understand how animals suffer when they are killed in slaughterhouses. The group posted the imageless advertisement on its blog site Wednesday. …
Tim McLean, 22, was stabbed and then beheaded by a fellow passenger as the two rode an eastbound Greyhound bus across Manitoba last Wednesday. The man accused of second-degree murder, Vince Weiguang Li, allegedly engaged in cannibalism during the attack, which occurred just west of Portage la Prairie.
Designed using large, bold type, the ad compares McLean’s struggles to those endured by an animal being slaughtered for its meat. It then refers to Li’s alleged act of cannibalism before saying, “It’s still going on!”
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PETA = Patriots Eating Taunting Activists
I am a vegetarian but this sort of nonsense does the movement no good whatsoever.
I agree, but why is choosing not to eat meat a 'movement'? Can't it just be someone's personal choice?
That's how wacko groups like PETA derive their power.
Movement??
Not eating something is a “movement?”
If I'm not mistaken, eating is a prerequisite to starting a 'movement'.
This is the most grusome, horrible, thing that I have heard of. It will make me leary of riding on a bus for years to come.
I thought that for a movement to occur you had to eat... but I could be wrong.
But I bet it doesn’t stop you from having a steak occasionally.
Just returned from “Into The Wild” of Alaska where an animal head in every lodge repeals the PETA folks. Up there, one dare not critic the hunting skills of another unless you want to catch a smack in head or stop a slug. I thorougly enjoyed dining on caribou, moose, salmon and Mr. Halibut.
Well good for Peta. This ought to increase their popularity...
Looks like PETA stole the Westboro Baptist Church’s playboook.
Is this a bowel movement kind of thing?
“An animal rights group has posted an ad on its website comparing the recent stabbing and decapitation of a young Winnipeg man to how humans kill animals for food.”
Only a PETA freak would believe a butcher stabs the animal he is killing dozens of times before he cuts it up to sell.
Only a PETA freak would believe anyone wants to buy meat that has lots of stab wounds.
But, enough Liberal Kool-Ade and they will believe anything.
I think the vast majority of human omnivores are just a little less likely to consume our own species than that.
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