Abortion provider George Tiller has barely been dead two days, and those fucking worthless bottom-feeders at PETA are already using his death in an ad campaign:
Get it? Because in PETA members’ tiny brains, EATING MEAT IS MORALLY EQUIVALENT TO MURDERING A HUMAN BEING IN COLD BLOOD. And, hey, everybody’s talking about that abortion guy, so why not use his death as a nifty tie-in for our anti-meat propaganda?
These ads are running, by the way, in Wichita, where Tiller’s many friends and family members are still grieving his death.
God, I wish there was some way to give an anti-donation to those fuckers. Maybe I’ll just go buy some foie gras instead.
Via Feministe; cross-posted.
Biologist @ 93, thanks.
@ 101, what’s this “fruititarianism” movement? Virtually no protein can be had that way. Is there really a movement afoot?
This is typical PETA misguided divisive bullshit and why animal welfare in general is the wrong approach. As an ethical vegan, promoting veganism and the abolitionist approach is the online honest and ethically consistent approach. Using tragedy, sexism and shock tatics…meanwhile giving awards to slaughter houses and killing countless adoptable pets at shelters…this another example of why PETA is fucked.
Erica, did some vegetarian lock you in a closet when you were a child?
yes PeTA does stupid shit that in no way drives people towards veganism. your writing, erica, is also stupid shit that in no way drives people to read the stranger
PETA are the crazy fundamentalists of the animal rights world, utterly convinced that their struggle is the most important in the world, a single defining black-and-white issue that justifies any action, no matter how harmful or offensive. In short, they’re utter fucktards, and an embarrassment to vegetarians and vegans everywhere. And what’s their strategy meant to be? How many animals do you save by picketing a shop that sells fur? A lot less than if you started a campaign to ban chicken cages, or farrowing crates. But no, there’d be as much publicity in that.
I agree with the principles behind their movement. I don’t eat meat. I don’t like intensive farming. I wouldn’t wear fur. But that is *my* choice. Do I go around making my friends feel guilty for eating ham sandwiches, and picketing McDonalds? No. I *despise* people who shove their morality down other people’s throats, who act like their own personal principles are the only ones that matter. And then there’s the fact that they utterly shoot themselves in the foot. How many comments have I just read with people saying ‘I’m going to eat more meat just to spite these crazies?’. If anything, they put people *off* vegetarianism, and they make us all look bad. Rather like the Westboro Baptists do to christians. Excepts that the Westboros are a bunch of fringe crazies, and not the *world face* of christianity.
*despairs*
“animals SHOULD be treated ethically, no question about it. ALL animals: pets, wildlife, food animals, research animals, zoo animals, etc etc…”
Except when an exterminator is involved right? You must mean “All animals should be treated ethically except things that are considered annoying and ugly” b/c there’s more animals killed by an exterminator than killed for fur and yet there’s no PETA campaign against exterminators.
I understand where PETA is coming from but I really wish they weren’t fucking morons. You know, if they spent more of their 30 million dollar budget on habitat preservation and less on fake blood to throw on old women then it’s possible that the white rhino wouldn’t have gone extinct in the wild; which it did a few years ago.
@107: Can you show police reports or news stories that indicate PETA members are spending 30 million bucks on throwing paint on women? Seriously, we hear this story year after year that PETA members do this, but I have yet to see a news story about this. I think it goes down with the gays-are-into-gerbils myth: happened once somewhere, but nowhere near the proportions people say it does.
This is why my support, as an animal lover, goes to the HSUS or ASPCA. The basic beliefs of PETA are understandable and I would love to love them as an organization, but the things they do for publicity are terrible. As someone who no longer uses cosmetics and body products that are tested on animals because I find the practice deeply disturbing, do I need biweekly emails with pictures of animals being tortured to remind me to give them more money? Nope. They mean well, but their publicity is absolutely harming their cause.
Gee, me thinks Erica Barnett has issues. I wonder what the animals would say?? Maybe kick her in the ***?? I would.
107, That is a good point. Lizzie, and other vegans/vegetarians: If your home is infested with roaches, ants, termites, rodents, etc. Do you just leave them be, or do those animals not count?
HSUS isn’t really much better than PETA from what I have heard, just quieter. Both groups ultimate goal is to wipe out all animal use and ownership. And I’m not sure you can call any diet that is entirely lacking in a critical vitamin you need to survive a “sustainable” diet. Either you have to eat some animal products (which kind of defeats the purpose of trying to claim you’re surviving on an herbivorous diet) or you have to take pills which are either chemically derived or are themselves derived from animal sources. Yes, the pre-packaged vegan foods often have B-12 added, but again… you can’t claim it’s a natural diet if it requires something not typically found IN that food source be added in order to make it work.
ECB:
If I have the right to kill an animal I didn’t create because I think a hamburger sounds like a tasty snack, then I certainly have the right to have an unformed fetus scraped out of my uterus because I don’t want to spend the next 18 years struggling to raise a child I can’t afford and don’t want.
I think that these ads inject some really interesting points into the conversation about abortion, and they don’t offend me at all. (Although I am outraged and ashamed of my fellow humans over the murder of Dr. Tiller, and the anti-choice movement in general).
Also, I’m not sure where you got from those ads that PETA thinks that the murder of Dr. George Tiller is the equivalent of eating meat. There is nothing about those ads, or even their timing, that suggests such a thing. It seems to me that you’ve jumped to a highly illogical conclusion. I often disapprove of PETA’s methods, but I just don’t see anything wrong with this.
It *is* totally weird that people who are rabidly “pro-LIFE” are almost always fine with killing and eating animals, the death penalty, and war. If you care so much about a miscroscopic collection of blood cells, why not care about fully formed animals? It’s inconsistent, illogical, and worthy of discussion.
And since you’ve brought it up here, PETA’s ad is apparently working really well. You’re doing just what they wanted: stirring up the debate.
@112 I don’t think anyone claims veganism is the natural state for our species. Nor is it the healthiest way you can eat; it just looks that way because the standard modern western diet is so horrifically *unhealthy*, anything would look good in comparison.
But in my case, at least, I don’t do it because it’s healthy or natural. I just can’t support the intensive farming system. I think it’s cruel, unnecessary and wasteful. But I have to eat something, and I don’t know if I can claim that my tofu, made from intensively farmed soybeans grown on rainforest-cleared land, is a much better choice.
PETA IS THE SHIT
Oops, it seems I accidentally slipped a “the” in there.
I like to be 100% politically correct so I believe that this whole problem is as easily solvable as 1+1. Why don’t we just eat abortions. Waste not want not.
PETA is another birthchild of Hollywood…The non reaity of realism. Get a life PETA.
My very important internet opinion is that everyone should just chill out, man.
fuck peta there fags and cant touch freedom they got away with some with clinton but if its war they want war they will get