Jewish Groups Decry PETA's Holocaust Ads

AP | 1 March 2003 | Michelle Morgante

[Petronski]

Jewish Groups Decry PETA's Holocaust Ads Sat Mar 1, 5:45 AM ET

By MICHELLE MORGANTE, Associated Press Writer

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."

[Petronski]

Is protein deficiency causing madness over at PeTA?

[Petronski]

Follow-up ping.

[Lizard_King]

Where's sungirl when you need a good old fashioned batch of ridiculous posts? This one has her name all over it...bet you miss her now...NOT....

Oh well, I can't wait for one of her alter egos/sidekicks to show up and explain their support of PETA.

[Severa]

*shakes head* I live in VA Beach, about a 30 min drive (on a good day) from their HQ in Norfolk. It's hard to ignore these dumbasses, much as we try here. They're otherwise known as People Embarrassing the Tidewater Area.

[Catspaw]

"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."

I'd truly like to slap him silly.

[Alouette]

I will accept their analogy when I see a chicken translate the Bible into chickenese.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

I will accept their analogy when I see a chicken translate the Bible into chickenese

Buck'b'buck (Genesis)

1. Buck b'buck buck-buck, Buck buck-bk b'buck b'b'buck.

2. B'b'buck b'buck-uck buck b'buck; b'buck-buck b'buck buck-uk b'buck'b'b'buck. B'b'Buck'b'Buck buck-bk b'buck b'b'buck.

3. B'Buck buck: "COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO!": B'buck b'buck.

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[LiteKeeper]

read later

[KC_for_Freedom]

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.

The Jews have plenty of wealthy democrats who would fund this cr*p, but they are a far cry from the Jews of Israel who say "Never again". No wonder this jewish leftist prefers to remain anonomous.

[Terriergal]

Is protein deficiency causing madness over at PeTA?

Sounds plausible!

[Terriergal]

People Embarrassing the Tidewater Area.

LOL good one!

[.45MAN]

PETA.. People who Eat Tasty Animals.

[Severa]

I can't take credit for it, I'm told a radio talk show host first coined it. Mancusi, I think his name was...

[onedoug]

Hitler worshipped nature too. Thus his view of humanity.