Critics Pounce on Animal-Rights Campaign

Earthlink News ^ | 2/28/03

[hoosierskypilot]

SAN DIEGO - An animal-rights campaign comparing the suffering of livestock to that of Holocaust victims is drawing sharp criticism from a leading Jewish group for "trivializing" the mass murder of Jews.

"The Holocaust on Your Plate" campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, debuted this week in California and will make a national tour.

The display is a set of eight 6-foot-by-10-foot panels showing photographs of Holocaust victims - emaciated men, crowds of people being forced onto trains, children behind barbed wire, heaps of human bodies - set next to similar images of cattle, pigs and chickens.

The Anti-Defamation League denounced the project and PETA's appeal for support from the Jewish community as "outrageous, offensive and taking chutzpah to new heights."

Abraham H. Foxman, a Holocaust survivor and ADL national director, said linking the deliberate, systematic murder of millions of Jews to the issue of animal rights was "abhorrent."

PETA member Matt Prescott, the creator of the campaign, said he is Jewish and his family lost several members in Nazi concentration camps. He said the campaign was funded by a Jewish philanthropist who wishes to remain anonymous.

He said criticism of the project was expected.

"The fact is all animals feel pain, fear and loneliness," he said Friday. "We're asking people to recognize that what Jews and others went through in the Holocaust is what animals go through every day in factory farms."

[hoosierskypilot]

I say let PETA have all the rope it wants. Along with the demonRats, they'll all self-destruct.

[SouthernFreebird]

I need a burger.....

[BlueLancer]

Mmmmm ... tastes like chicken.

[Luna]

The following is an image I like to contemplate:

Deceased PETA members being forced to wear leather and eat meat in Hell while Satan watches. If any members refuse to eat the meat, Satan gives them a little prod with his pitchfork.
"Take that, you idiots. Now eat, eat, eat! God has all the Jews killed in the Holocaust with Him, but He let me have all of you. Heehee."

[pabianice]

PETA is killing itself. Poetic justice, don't you think?

[onedoug]

Hitler worshipped nature too. Thus his view of humanity.

[RobRoy]

When you attempt to raise the value of animals to the level of humans, you ultimately succeed only in lowering the value of humans to that of animals.

Hitler loved animals...

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

There is a up to $500.00 (not to exceed ever $25,000) fine to any one that kills an 'endangered' fox, or upsets/touches certain turtle nest eggs along our shores. Under the detailed listings of the federal Endangered Species Act.

There is a $350.00 to $500.00 'amount due' to kill the human species. (AKA abortion) And in second/third human trimesters; scissors are jabbed into the HUMAN head and the brains are sucked out-In elective surgeries- daily, in the United States, all under the guise of a woman's "right." The only real "right" is the "right" to remain silent.

When will humans become "endangered" and protected?

When will the so called pro-"choicers" realize basic science skills of the food-chain? Human's are NOT at the bottom of the food-chain.

Do they really see what they do, with their political correctness all in the guise of a "woman's right"?

[FourtySeven]

On a related thread another poster named Callahan had the perfect picture and caption for this latest action by PETA:

"Would this qualify as a war crime?"

LOL