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  • PETA exploits bus beheading

    08/07/2008 12:00:03 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 16 replies · 148+ views
    hotair.com ^ | August 7, 2008 | Ed Morrissey
    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...
  • German environmentalists say freed minks will die (11,000 of 17,000 released still on the loose)

    10/29/2007 9:18:44 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 43 replies · 210+ views
    AFP on Yahoo ^ | 10/29/07 | AFP
    BERLIN (AFP) - German conservationists on Monday condemned the freeing of some 17,000 minks from a fur farm, apparently by animal rights activists, saying they would starve in the wild. "It was a political act, and it has nothing to do with protecting the environment," said Joern Ehlers from the German chapter of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). "These animals are going to die of hunger." Minks are carnivores who feed on small animals and those freed from the farm in Grabow, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Berlin, risked disturbing the ecological balance in the region,...