Posted on 01/03/2019 5:56:11 AM PST by Zakeet
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) called on the University of Texas and the University of Georgia to end the use of live mascots after an incident before their Sugar Bowl matchup on Tuesday.
Bevo, the Texas Longhorns' steer mascot, charged Uga, the Georgia Bulldogs' dog mascot, before the game, creating a brief moment of chaos for the people around the animals. The pre-game kerfuffle caught the attention of the animal rights organization.
"It's indefensible to subject animals to the stress of being packed up, carted from state to state, and paraded in front of a stadium full of screaming fans," PETA senior vice president Lisa Lange said in a statement Wednesday. "It's no surprise that a skittish steer would react to a perceived threat by charging, and PETA is calling on the University of Texas and the University of Georgia to learn from this dangerous incident, retire their live-animal mascots, and stick to the talented costumed mascots who can lead cheers, react to the crowd, and pump up the team."
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Neither universities have responded to PETA’s request.
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I once tried my best to make a point with PETA that it is animal abuse for vegans to force “carnivorous” cats and dogs to become vegan.
I mean really... If a bag of vegan cat food has to be labeled as “anti-puking” formula to sell it, something is obviously wrong with the whole concept. lol
That's where you're buying into the PETA line - assuming that you have the right to control others' property. That is a fundamentally anti-conservative position.
“I believe pet ownership to be objectionable in many ways”
Don’t tell my dogs or horses. They don’t want to be free range animals, searching for food and shelter. They expect ME to take care of them.
Quoting your words to you is not influenced by my "preconceived ideas" of straw men. The point is your thinking leads to rampant liberalism.
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
(Snicker, Snicker!)
No.
Wait ‘til we get a leash on 100 Razorbacks!
Substitute them with PETAs.
“Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!”
Answer to PETA: No.
To the very few and loud-mouth morons who run peta: I “call on” you to close shop and self-exile. You are worthless subhumans.
Didn't he just run for US Senate in Texas? I agree - ban him.
I remember reading a James Herriot (of All Creatures Great and Small fame) story some time back about where he talked about a bull calf he had delivered.
The calf became his best friend...when he drove up, the calf would come running up and gamboled about him...even well into adolescence, just the chummiest animal that could be.
He went for a stretch of some months where he didn’t visit that farm, and when he did, sometime in that interval, the calf had turned into an adult bull.
He had been called to place a nose ring in the bull, if my memory serves me correctly.
When he approached it, He was startled by the dramatic change in the animal, even apart from being fully muscled and brawny...it reeked of aggression to the point of hatred. When he looked into it’s face, the calf with the doe-eyes was long gone, and a “glittering malevolence towards all things human” (including him) now looked back at him.
IIRC, the bull, his former chum, nearly killed him when it got loose as he was performing the procedure.
Yeah, sure, they’ll get right on that. Uh huh.
You WIN!!!
The idiot of the thread award.
So could the dog.
As proficient as man thinks he might be at husbandry, We will never breed the Auroch DNA out of the Bovine. They will always retain a great percentage of the primal instincts of their wild and dangerous ancestors. I think it is the same with all “domesticated” animals, they can and will always revert back to their wild ancestral temperament at times. :)
Hey hey, I’m a member of the “NEW PETA - “Patriots Exterminating Total Assh0les”
I had to look that (Auroch DNA) up...fascinating! It is hard not to admire such a powerful beast.
One of the things I have always found interesting about cats is that they are not far removed at some shallower level from being wild, feral animals.
When you see a domesticated cat with prey in its mouth, the unique, feral look in its eyes more closely approximates a tiger with the windpipe of antelope in its jaws, than a house cat.
And under the right conditions, I have no doubt dogs can regress to that level as well...I had an experience once being chased by a large pack of 10-20 dogs that had once been pets but were left to their own devices after being abandoned.
It was pretty scary.
Nobody said anything about controlling other people’s behavior. Boy, you people really have a hair trigger!
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