PETA compares bus beheading to animal abuse

I grew up on a farm, and although I feel the opinions of others should be respected, I really like my BBQ chicken.

Peta is a terrorist organization.

Watch Penn and Teller's bullshit about them sometime. It'll open your eyes about our animal loving friends.

peta? Whatever! Who takes these kind of insane extremist seriously? If you belong to peta, it would be greatly appreciated if you would quietly, but bloodily, remove yourself from the gene pool. With all the people suffering in the world you want to waste your time and our resources taking the most ludicrous positions and drawing the most ridiculous parallels. I feel it would be very productive if we could find a way to get the Taliban to turn their sites on peta. That would be a huge step forward.

i'd like peta more if it didn't consist largely of homely chics who didn't shave their legs often enough .

I'm convinced PETA is funded by the meat-packing industry to discredit true animal rights organizations with these shocking displays of sheer muppetry.

I think Peta should pull their head out.

peta reacts that way to anything and everything that remotely has anything to do with their animal-fundamentalist views.

they're so over the top they're irrelevant to me any more.

my wife and i work with animal rescue groups, golden retrievers, specifically, and we foster and rescue and adopt dogs, too.

but peta is a characature of itself and if it were completely ignored, i don't think anything would change for the worse.

ps... destroying private or public property in the name of their crusade is still a crime. period. they have no limits, no respect, and imnsho, as a result, deserve none.

ps, peta... one of my favorite foods is grilled dead cow, and many friends and relatives compliment me on the good job i do of it.

I myself am a vegetarian but I do not support peta. I do not support pushing your idea on anyone. I also don't think they see how there actions turn people away from what they are trying to say.

what they do does turn some people away, but their actions are justified, they are extreme. all these lame asses go around saying they shouldnt try to push their ideas on people but for some this is more than just an idea its a matter of life and death of billions of living, feeling animals, and their slaughter is in no way justified. so extreme measures make sense. the only problem here is that people are too uncompassionate, greedy, and ignorant.

damn peta, how low can you go?

I'm a vegetarian and find PETA beyond annoying. While people should realize that what goes on in the meat industry is harmful in numerous ways not only to the animals, but to us as well, the way to go about it isn't with naked women and shock-and-awe tactics. Especially with a recent news story like this.

I'd like to make a counter-PETA effort one day, and really wish someone should.

Oh, I don't mean counter as in "let's eat some cheese smothered meat, y'all!", but in a "let's help animals of all sorts and be sane about it".

I'm all for the ethical treatment of animals; there's no excuse for abusing pets or inflicting unnecessary suffering on animals when they're slaughtered. But PETA's a fringe group that doesn't even understand it's own species well enough to sensibly communicate with us. They just likened over 90% of the world population to a psychopathic, cannibalistic murderer. well done PETA. Now let me write you a check. SIKE!

The meat and dairy industry pump us with endless propaganda from day one through kids education, adverts, paid scientists with agenda's to create confusion etc etc
The industrial farming system is closer to concentration camps than farms these days but people still hold images of happy cows and sheep in fields. I do not particularly like Peta's tactics sometimes but they are a tiny force countering a giant, powerful industry in which cruelty is the norm. They are making an attempt to counter the years of brainwashing the meat/dairy industry has done, so I can't really judge them too harsely. The animals are defenseless and cannot stand up for their own rights - so who will and by what means should they do it?

One of the main problems with our modern world is that we are insulated from where and how we get the items we eat and wear, so people don't have to think about that sausage they are eating or that chicken burger they are munching on. If they had to rear the pig/chicken/duck in the cruel conditions they are reared, transported and slaugtered in then I don't think many people would continue to eat it.

Watch this when you have some time. It's a good documentary that goes through how most of the animals are typically reared and killed in modern industrial farming.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1282796533661048967

Peta are fighting a loosing battle. It's probably not ethical to kill and eat animals, but hey, we're not an ethical race, in practice anyway.

PeTA. no.

Once someone shows me that a lion takes into consideration the pain and suffering of their victims I will totally understand the need to feel for the pain and suffering of a cow, pig or chicken.

But I do (aside from the fact that lions, bears, polar bears....and others slaughter their victims without a care of their feelings) see that if a better way of treatment can be done it should be, I just don't think stating that's right because we say so a good stance....because there's really nothing in this world that backs them (nature wise) other than the one thing animals don't have; and that's heart.

P.E.T.A. are a bunch of off the charts looney birds! I understand a healthy lifestyle and being Ethical about how you treat animals, but this is radical and hateful. They are more sensitive to the needs of chickens and cows than thay are toward the needs of human beings. There is an inherant self-righteousness that goes with their rhetoric. Any worthwhile message that they may have gets lost in the delivery. I am 100% against P.E.T.A. They believe in 100% total animal liberation. That means no medicines from research, no beasts of burden, to service dogs(search and rescue, police, military, bomb dogs, drug dogs, seeing-eye, earing-ear, cancer sniffing or therapy dogs) And they don't think we should own pets of any kind. They are crazy as hell. They use shock imagery that boarders on terrorism.

alarming.. I'm all for animal rights but generally farmers and (even) slaughterhouse workers aren't raving homicidal lunatics. And there *is* still something, at least more biologically, wrong about killing and eating your own species, as opposed to another.

Who will be their voice.

I will.

Burn the fucking death machines to the ground.

XVX for life, R.A.S.H. 'til death.

I feel the need to stand up for PETA in this case. What is everyone so mad about? Did their ad lie? No. Did they even exaggerate fact? No. They made a comparison that people are uncomfortable with. Of course the ad was meant to be provocative.

It seems to me that people are upset about this because they don't want to think about the fact that something they support daily, by eating meat, is so similar to the crime they were all horrified by. What really bothers you about this ad? Why do you think it's unfair? Is it because you think humans feel pain to a degree that animals don't? Because that's simply not true. Is it because you don't think animals' suffering should matter as much as humans' does? If so, why? Simply because you consider humans to be genetically superior, means we should care what happens to our own species but not what happens to others? There is very very little cognitive difference between dogs and pigs - if anything, pigs are more intelligent than most breeds of dogs. Yet acts that disgust us, when committed against dogs, are the same acts that are committed against millions of pigs by the meat industry.

PETA is right to point out that this brutal murder is no different from what happens to thousands of animals every day. If you're uncomfortable with it, that's because you should be.

Wait. WHAT?? PETA and ads aside, that is the craziest bus story I've EVER heard! All I can think is "What??" and "Oh my God!" I thought Canadians were nice. How did no one notice or say anything?? WHAT?? So weird.

UPDATE: It seems this is old news. I was on vacation. It's still weird.

I understand animal rights but be foreal! You cannot say screw the evoulutionary chain of events! it is a dog eat dog world. If I was a P.E.T.A member and I was in a life or death situation i would EAT WHAT EVER IS AVAILABLE! So they can protest all they want but if they were freezing in Alaska and they seen a endangered animal walk by with a nice warm looking fur coat they would kill it, eat the meat and make a blanket! Most peta members are rich and never had to struggle for anything,. Put them in a life and death situation and the carnivore will come out!

@neckfire... thanks. I just added PETA Fundamentalists to my list at

http://www.plusaf.com/soapbox/fundamentalism.htm

How about:

People For The Kind And Loving Treatment Of Animals Without Becoming Freaking Fundamentalist Lunatics About It?

PFTKALTOAWBFFLAI ?

nah... doesn't scan well...

Someone should stand up for the rights of grass not to be eaten by cows. Every time I see a bale of hay, I die a little inside.