Comments on: A Swat At PETA

By: Meat = Eat

Meat = Eat — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:09:40 +0000

If these PETArds believe in anything at all, they should just switch to Nihilism. If they are Christian, Jewish, or any other Pagan religion with gods, they are hypocrits. God is probably a living being, and what right does he have to better than people if people don’t have rights to be better than animals?

For all those Aethiests (Am I spelling this right?) who believe in Reincarnation, what happens if you’re a tree? You could probably say that they’re sentient beings now. So plants have equal rights too, RIGHT?

And if they are Reincarnated, I hope they become trees, turned into paper for a sign that advertises meat. (Yes, I’m stealing a joke from Dane Cook.)

-Calvin

By: Darth Chaos

Darth Chaos — Sun, 09 May 2010 13:33:53 +0000

Apparently PETA’s fine and dandy with jackbooted police shooting a Welsh corgi during a police raid.

http://blog.norml.org/2010/05/06/missouri-swat-team-shoots-family-dog-during-raid-over-small-amount-of-marijuana/

Don’t get me started on the “War on Drugs.”

By: patzy

patzy — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:52:50 +0000

Beloved dog and shitty human kid drowning…scenario. Swim out..slap the kid into a ‘pay attention mode’ have her/him wrap their arms around your neck from the back and grab the dog by it’s collar and ta da! All you pissy little haters will be happy that yet another screwed up human is saved to probably go on and create children that it will screw up..ad nauseam. Seems like most of you live in the buy-bull belt…not known for intelligence or compassion.
Don’t bother to rant at me, I, unlike you don’t have the time to hang around listening to macho crap. And since some believe Nature is a killing zone I guess the genocide in Africa doesn’t cause you to lose any sleep. McDonalds huh? Let me guess, huge gut by the time you are 25, coronary by 40 at at the latest.

I have a theory that PETA types dislike humans in general. Thanks for the confirmation. Yes, it’s just so awful when humans go around creating more icky little humans … EEEEEUUUUWWWW!

And I noticed that, as usual, you can’t answer the hypothetical question. It’s not a hard one to wrap your head around, really: you have time to either save the dog or the kid. Pick one. Fantasizing about saving both isn’t an option in the quiz.

Coronary by age 40, huh? Since I’m 50 and my doctor says I’m in outstanding health, I’ll need a time machine to make that prediction come true.

By: Cassandra

Cassandra — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:26:43 +0000

I live in southeastern rural NE, and I saw a great bumper sticker at a McDonald’s drive-thru this past week and thought this an appropriate place to share it: In Large CAPS it read “I LOVE ANIMALS”, then underneath in smaller print, “They taste GREAT!”

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:27:54 +0000

I suppose this “humane release” solution will apply to other pests as well, such as roaches, mosquitoes, centipedes, fruit flies, weevils, carpenter ants, termites, lice, bedbugs, and dust mites? Am I being a speciesist if I kill pinworms in my child?

I believe the proper response is that if you were vegetarian, you’d be strong enough to save both of them.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:09:42 +0000

Hi Tom,

Any plans to review/comment on the Food, Inc. book or movie? I’d love to hear your take on it.

Thanks!

Paul

I haven’t seen it yet, but will no doubt want to comment on it afterwards. (Frankly, I’m still pissed reviewers are all over this one but mostly ignoring Fat Head.)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:05:47 +0000

While People Eating Tasty Animals is a fun reading of the PETA acronym, I think Poorly Educated Teen Activists is much more accurate.

My parents live in wheat country and I can guarantee that more animal lives are lost harvesting the grain for their pasta and bread than are lost for the steaks and hamburger that I eat. Wheat is murder!

Indeed … poorly educated, or at least ignorant about what truly happens in nature, which is a giant killing zone.

To borrow from the famous quote about socialists, “Anyone who is not a vegan by age 20 has no heart. And anyone who is still a vegan by age 30 has no brain.”

We’re working on our “Wheat Is Murder” t-shirts this week, along with other Fat Head gifts.

By: katherine

katherine — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:23:19 +0000

First of all I’d like to say that I despise PETA and their agenda. I do, on occasion, go to a PETA-sponsored blog, mostly just to reinforce my poor opinion of the organization and their crazies. In this particular case, although their message was ABSURD, I have to sort of cut them a break…according to the blog, the media came to them asking for a statement, not the other way around. Which actually irritates me WAY more than the message. It’s amazing what passes for “news” these days.

Glad to know PETA didn’t go running to the microphone themselves on this one, but I’d still be more likely to cut them some slack if they’d said something along the lines of “It’s a fly. No big deal.”

Much of the news is generated, just as a lot of supposed science is generated. I sometimes wonder if that’s the reason the media doesn’t expose the Center for Science in the Public Interest for what they are, a bunch of vegetarian activists who don’t care much about real science. Perhaps the media doesn’t WANT to discredit CSPI because they’re guaranteed news-generators. You can always count on CSPI for some colorful, over-the-top quotes.

The other possibility is that reporters read their press releases without doing much independent research or critical thinking. I know that happens when they report on studies, or the reporting would be different. As I frequently tell my wife after reading news stories about “new study proves blah-blah-blah,” I can’t decide if certain reporters are intentionally dishonest or just plain incompetent.

By: Aaron Blaisdell

Aaron Blaisdell — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:00:08 +0000

Very funny that PETA got up in arms over this incident. Having said that, I want to correct two inacuracies. First, flies are indeed animals (Kingdom Animalia), second, flies are much more intelligent than a potato. Their nervous system has thousands of neurons organized into ganglia that form intricate circuits. They have complex behavior which includes learning.

I was being sarcastic with potato remark (even in reference to the intelligence of a PETA volunteer).

My bad on excluding insects from the animal kingdom. I was thinking of animals as furry things, i.e. mammals — exactly the sort of exclusionary, bigoted thinking you’d expect from a speciesist.

My high-school biology teacher would be disappointed to know I forgot Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species, which he taught us to remember with the mnemonic Keep the Postal Carrier Off the F@#$ing Grass Sir.

By: TonyNZ

TonyNZ — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:47:05 +0000

I got into an online argument with some PETA folk recently. They said something along the lines of “We did not evolve to eat meat. We don’t have the sharp teeth for tearing meat like carnivores. One day we’ll look back and be horrified that we caused all this violence and war just so that we could eat another living thing.”

To which I replied:

1: We did evolve to eat meat, it is the only way our brains could develop to their current size.

2: Of course our teeth aren’t like carnivores, because we are omnivores. A bunch of pointed curved teeth wouldn’t be much good for the veges that we should eat. Also, we cook our meat and use tools to cut it, so we rarely need to resort to tearing raw meat off a bone.

3: Please let me know of a war that started because someone ate meat.

4: If animals have all the rights, they should have all the responsibilities that go with them. We need to make sure that no animal anywhere eats meat. Seeing as it appears to be only humans that can see that we shouldn’t be eating meat, we need to spread the message. Seeing as we can’t communicate with animals, I propose we round up every carnivorous/omnivorous animal and put them into captivity. They would eventually resort to cannibalism, so they must all be put into their own cages. As space for these would be at a premium, the cages must be very small.

This caged Facility for the Abolishment of Retrieving Meat (cage FARM) will be the subject of protest from the meat craving masses. Rampant overpopulation of the herbivourous free species due to lack of predation will lead to extensive damage to plant life due to the animals eating more and more. When plant stocks dwindle the animals will resort to carnivorous activity, adding more animals to the list that need to be cage FARMed. The infrastructure required for this will be a drain on the economy, and there will be global economic collapse. The infrastructure will not be maintained and the daily soy rations will not be administered. Mass breakout will result in a feeding frenzy, with all carnivores located in a central location. Almost every animal will end up eaten.

Or we could just continue as is…

Dr. Sears from the film pointed out in our interview that humans don’t need fangs because we developed opposable thumbs and can use weapons. (We also have the brains to conceive of weapons.)

Since the PETA folks love nature so much (wink-wink) you’d think they’d notice that “uncivilized” humans are all hunter-gatherers. That’s obviously our natural inclination.

I occasionally hear one of them try the argument that meat makes us angry and aggressive. To which I reply, “Good thing Hitler and the other prominent Nazis were vegetarians; otherwise they might have ended up hurting people.”