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:

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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.

118 replies on “Fuck You, PETA”

  5. You know, maybe it is just my tiny little brain, but that ad campaign seems to be pro-vegetarian and abortion-neutral. Or am I completely missing something?

  6. if you’re pro-choice, doesn’t that mean you are ok with death in certain cases? certain cases here = hamburgers.

  7. I agree it’s awfully tasteless; however, if you honestly believe, as these people do, that eating meat is as bad as the Holocaust, then this is justified. Same with abortion and harassing women outside clinics–or killing abortion doctors, for that matter.

  10. I think the message is that eating scrambled eggs are the equivalent of an abortion.

    Speaking of which, what kind of cheese do you prefer on your Denver Fetus?

  12. erica is such a bad ex-vegan. also, i’ve seen ads like these before. not to say they were in wichita before, but they definitely do exist.

  13. Gee, yeah, I appreciate having the calm and level-headed ECB here to point out who’s a hyperventilating extremist.

  15. Peta did something similar on a billboard in Manitoba, Canada after a gruesome bus butchering /beheading /cannibalism incident. Here’s a link:

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/7/1…

    People freaked. You have to assume the ad would’ve inflamed powerfully negative feelings toward vegetarians.

    If its purpose was to promote vegetarianism it’s a catastrophic failure. Same problem here.

    Bad marketing. Bad!

  16. Even if I don’t agree with her, er, reasoning, I feel compelled to acknowledge the few instances where I agree with Ms. ECB. This is such an instance. Yes, Fuck you, PETA.

    As for you, 14 MR. Language Person, that’s a curiously select subset of anti-PETA organizations. I’d suggest the American Association for the Advancement of Science as one of the many organizations promoting rational thought and empiricism and thus overly qualified as anti-PETA:

    http://www.aaas.org/

  17. @10 Jeez, you know, chicken eggs aren’t little dead chicken fetuses. They’re just chicken ovulation. Unless you buy fertilized eggs. But still. A yolk is not a runny baby chick.

  18. @14 (MR. Language Person): I think Erica would be happier if she just bought herself a lovely steak. Of course buying steaks doesn’t net you a charitable deduction but whatthehell.

  20. The Peta crowd believes their cause is so important that it towers above everything else in the world. They also see themselves in a similar light. I take the animal rights movement with a big grain of salt. Take them seriously at your own peril.
    Here is a link to one group that takes donations. I will make a donation in the name of narn.
    http://www.pro-test.org.uk/

  21. I’m convinced that PETA is being run by people who are intentionally sabotaging the vegetarian/vegan cause. many vegetarians will agree. their campaigns backfire all the time, badly. Which sucks because then I have to listen to all these vegetarian haters who get another excuse to talk about how fed up they are with well-intentioned, sympathetic people for NOT supporting factory farms.

  22. I’m personally quite glad PeTA’s out there. Being a liberal here in Red State Texas can be a trial. A well-publicized group of vego-nazi fuckwits who I can point to and say, “I’m definitely a liberal sure, but I’m not one of THOSE liberals,” makes my life that little bit easier.

  24. Yup. Fuck PETA. They’re so good at getting headlines that they don’t care if it advances their cause one iota. You know why? Because all they have to do to stay in business is raise enough money from the True Believers to keep going. If you examine their actions in this light they make a lot more sense.

    Their primary goal is fundraising, not protecting helpless little bunny rabbits and the like.

  27. @23. I like it.
    What would you suggest? Climb up and tear off an A4 -size chunk of a billboard? Find a Peta douche and cut off his ponytail? Go into their headquarters and steal all the business cards off the holders?

  28. Would someone less frothing-at-the-mouth rabid than Erica care to explain how this is offensive. It doesn’t even reference the murder.

    Imagine this scenario. McDonalds runs an ad campaign the the messages “Are you a Democrat? Eat at McDonalds!” and “Are you a Republican? Eat at McDonalds!” The next week, some crazed Democrat assasinates Dick Cheney. Is the ad campaign suddenly in poor taste?

    This is not to say that the campaign is effective, or that PETA isn’t a bunch of sanctimonous assholes. Just that there is nothing here in obviously poor taste.

  29. Actually, on second thought I don’t see what is so horribly offensive with these stickers. They’ve had way worse ads/campaigns/stickers. the pro-choice one doesn’t make too much sense. the pro-life one simply says, if you claim to be so “pro-life”, why eat animals? that life doesn’t matter? but a zygote does? often pro-lifers are conservatives who practically celebrate death, in hunting or war or wanting to shoot and kill people who mess with them. so which is it? PETA is not agreeing with pro-lifers’ beliefs about abortion with this sticker, relax haters.

  32. The first time the shoplift troll @2 is actually funny, and the situation is so frustrating and tragic that I feel terrible for laughing.

    Maybe it was exactly that which made his frivolous bullshit laughable.

  33. They did a really dumb thing. I think there cause is a really good one, but they try to anvance it is a really stupid way.

  36. My favorite part about this ad campaign is the apparent understanding on the part of PETA that people who are pro-choice are LITERALLY in favor of choices. In general. “Hey, you guys like choices, right? Well, here, you can choose vegetarianism!”

  37. @ eustaceia,

    According to the fundies, every single embryo/ovum is a human, er, chicken being and when an ovum is destroyed it’s the same as killing Baby Jesus…or a real chicken. Or something. Fundies aren’t terribly rational.

  38. Remember, PETA once compared black people to chickens and said eating chicken was morally equivalent to enslaving people.

  39. Here’s the thinking behind this kind of campaign:

    1) Statistically speaking, when people think about where their food comes from, they end up eating less meat.

    2) Pissing people off gets their attention and gets them thinking and arguing about the subject.

    3) It’s easier to get PETA’s supporters energized with angry, provocative messages than with calm, reasonable messages.

    The bottom line is that this strategy works. Sure, lots of people end up hating PETA, but those people do end up eating less meat than they did before.

    If you don’t think this strategy is effective, think about how Fox “News” makes money and how Bush made it into the White House for 8 years.

  41. Oh, Erica, it’s so CUTE how you get all outraged. Perhaps you could write for all of us a piece on the tragedy of shoplifting, and how it impacts young women who work at alt-weeklies, and the affect that it has on their lives when they get caught. It’s a pressing societal issue that I’m sure which touch many of your readers. After all, it’s a problem that really needs action, and maybe your piece could spur your reading public to action when they see shoplifting occur.

  42. @31 Jeff – Sorry, but you’re an idiot. If you want to see an assessment that makes any sense, read #29 right above yours. You might not get it, though, because it’s actually intelligently written.

  43. Fuck You, Erica C Barnett. Stop lecturing the rest of us about “worthless bottom-feeders” when you are a worthless piece of shit who can’t even pay for your own $8.99 bottle of wine from the grocery store. You’re a THIEF. Now shut the fuck up about morals. It’s sickening.

  44. Yah, PETA is ridiculously awful and mean-spirited at marketing, but they’re just being offensive. They’re not the #1 cause of global warming, the #1 cause of deforestation, the #1 cause of preventable early death, the #1 cause of obesity, the #1 cause of pandemic influenza, or the #1 cause of animal torture (unlike meat eaters).

  45. I can’t even imagine what the threadcount is going to be on this post when I wake up tomorrow. Try and remember: Not all carnivores are dicks and not all vegetarians are assholes. Night Slog! Sweet dreams!

  47. Oh Slogbuster, you’re so CUTE when you get angry – just like my 3 year-old niece when her mommy makes her go to bed!

    You’re just so ADORABLE! I want to give you such a big PINCH on your rosy little cheeks!

  48. PETA and those in favor of illegal abortions both seem to confuse morality with sentimentality. Can’t prove it, but it’s a hunch.

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