IT’S World Vegetarian Week and the animal lovers at Peta are showing how much they care for all creatures by wrapping their interns up in cellophane on a hot day to protest cruelty against animals.
Ashley Byrne, a Washington, D.C.-based campaign coordinator with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), talks with Memphis police officers during a recent demonstration outside City Hall that coincided with World Vegetarian Week. When officers inquired about the well-being of intern Shawn Herbold (bottom) and volunteer Thomas Olsen, a sweat-soaked Herbold replied that she was in pain and feeling nauseated from the heat after being wrapped in cellophane for 30 minutes, and also asked how much longer she needed to stay there.
They shoot horses, strangle chickens and stun gun cows; oh, and hang, draw and quarter pigs:
Byrne let her know it wouldn’t be much longer and left her under the hot afternoon sun for 30 minutes more while debating with the officers. PETA would never treat a cow that way, but I guess it’s OK for an intern.
(via Reason magazine)
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October 11th, 2008 at 12:37 am
It is the interns decision to work/volunteer for PETA. Enough said.
June 16th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
you’re right, June - unfortunately it is always the extremists who grab the publicity and sometimes that overshadows what is in fact a very serious issue, like the maltreatment of animals.
the decent people don’t get a look in and it’s not just regarding animals either - for example, there’s the good dads who do want to pay for their kids (often through the nose) and are castigated because of the behaviour of others, or those who because of terminal illness, wish to choose their time and means of dying, without the interference of strangers.
extremism seems to be increasingly the method employed to get an opinion across and I for one don’t appreciate it.
June 16th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
dairy
some of them are deliberately sabotaging well intentioned organisations, which of course must be borne in mind- such as the idiots who let the Beagles out of the lab, all of whom needed the drugs they were on to maintain life,cold turkeying is NOT a good idea, and any with any wounds that need specific care too, particularly pain killers. Which is why they were left there.
But there shall always be the mentally unstable and the deliberately cruel amongst us, but humane treatment of animals is a sign of a civilised society, and equally being deliberately cruel to animals because there are sadistic bastards about isn’t a reason to stop caring for animals and the illtreatment they suffer.
Me kicking my dog won’t stop cruel tyranny and the like, I know me being gentle with my dog won’t stop them either, but that’s all down to cruel tyrants to stop themselves, and why should my dog suffer?
June 16th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
M and A - I agree, it’s quite ironic that the people who purport to be anti-cruelty can by contrast be incredibly, viciously cruel to their own species.
…a psychologist would have a field day with that one…
June 16th, 2008 at 9:16 am
there’s always something not quite logical about the stunts that these people engage in.
if people want to be vegetarians - fine, but why do they have to sermonise about it? the fact remains that humans were designed to be carnivores - if man had been vegetarian from the beginning, we wouldn’t be here now.
M and A
Dairy, people can be veggie without extremism, but in my view (purely personal) a lot of the anti cruelty lot have become very extreme of late, I used to support Greenpeace and Peta , but not any more, they appear to have become almost guerilla-like. I don’t support the proschool of whaling either, and think it can be protested against more effectively through a more diplomatic approach, and hopefully the seal clubbing can too.
June 16th, 2008 at 2:15 am
Looks like the good folk at PETA have been watching ‘Dexter’.
June 15th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Stay away from bullfights
Handlers weaken the bull for days the bullfight
They put laxative in their food and heavy sand bag on their backs
They file his horns down to the tender and drug him
In the ring, they drive lances into his back and the muscles of his neck so he cant lift his head.
By the time, the matador appears, the bull is weak from loss of blood and dizzy from being chased in circles
The horses used in bulfights are old and usually drugged.
Wet newspaper is stuffed in their ears and very often their vocal cords are cut, so the audience will not hear their cries. They wear long blankets to hide their insides which spill out when they are gored and disemboweled
This “tradition” is supported and financed by townhalls and the church
June 14th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Meat-In-The-City-Shock
Do unto humans as you would have them not do unto animals.
Experience the pain, nausea and sweat of dead meat cooked outdoors using midday solar power. Do they then get eaten at a street BBQ?
Yes it puts me off eating meat, especially human meat