Sounds like one of their own stunts! ;D
QuoteNORFOLK, Va. (AP) - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is offering a $1,000 reward for information in the vandalism of its headquarters in Norfolk.
Employees of the animal rights group discovered dead fish and crabs outside the building Sunday. The vandal or vandals also smeared fish guts on the building's doors and windows.
PETA spokesman Adam Miller tells The Virginian-Pilot (://bit.ly/o2fq4T ) that the group is offering the reward for information leading to an arrest.
Miller says PETA also filed a report with Norfolk police.
PETA has filed paperwork to launch its pornography site when the controversial new .xxx domain becomes active in early December. While many nonprofits and corporations are scrambling to protect their website names from being hijacked by a pornographer slapping on a .xxx domain, PETA is embracing the new domain as just another way to conduct business.
"We try to use every outlet that we can to speak up for animals," Rajt said. "We anticipated that this new triple-X domain name would be a hot topic and we immediately decided to use it and take advantage of it to try to promote the animal rights message."
Jill Dolan, director of the program in gender and sexuality studies at Princeton University, was critical of the PETA campaigns.
"Exploiting porn to get people's juices going seems lame; exploiting pornographic images only of women to make their point is retrograde and misogynist," Dolan said in an email. "Come on, PETA. Don't be Neanderthals."
more here
http://news.yahoo.com/peta-launch-porn-name-animal-rights-193238904.html
PETA is that he same group protesting fishing in Seattle?
Quote from: rick91351 on September 27, 2011, 11:22:30 AM
PETA is that he same group protesting fishing in Seattle?
One and the same
Several articles on cruelty in the use of hooks, etc.
Apparently, since they have never fished, they have not witnessed a fish, of the same species, swallow a smaller fish that took a bait from a hook.
'Course that must have been the rare rogue fish, saggy fins on the ground, never attending school, smoking Hake, rowdy sort...........
Speaking of funny, I recently saw a bumper sticker that reads "Support PETA" Below that the acronym P.E.T.A. is defined as People Eating Tasty Animals. I laughed my rear end off. [rofl2]
Sounds like PETA is getting a taste of its own medicine... sounds just like some of the crap they pull when they're supposedly protesting. When I lived in Korea, they protested in Seoul, right down the street from where I worked, by putting naked women in cages. What were they supposedly protesting? The Korean tradition of eating dog! Don't get the correlation at all. I've heard of them protesting the wearing of animal fur by throwing red paint on women wearing furs, etc. Stupid organization, IMO.
The equation is that people are like all other animals. I get vegetarians and vegans. I especially respect vegans that don't proselytize about it. They walk the walk for their own reasons and most of the time it is a healthier life style. It is not one that I subscribe to.
I don't get PETA. They are far outside the normal standard of having respect for life and animals. They are so extreme in their approach and rhetoric that they turn more people off to their ideals than they convert. But I guess it gets them a lot of money in donations.
So Homey I have to ask, were the naked women attractive or were they a bunch of dogs?
Ha ha, Squirl, should have seen that one coming.... :D I don't really know. I always took a back street from the Subway to the school where I worked. My coworkers (all men) didn't seem to mind so much... they were the ones who told me about it the day it happened. When I had come out of the alley, I'd seen the crowd down at the end of the street, but my thought was that it was probably a couple of bus drivers duking it out because they'd gotten in a wreck and were blaming each other. PETA would have been my last guess, lol. They were still there when we went to lunch, and by then the police were trying to run them off....I went a different direction to avoid the whole mess.