Maddino87
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 Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:07 am Post subject: Top 10 Outrageous PETA Stunts |
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Guess what made No. 8.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1938138_1938227,00.html
| Quote: | 1) Baring it all
PETA aren't Michael Vick fans, but that doesn't mean they're opposed to employing models who play with the pigskin. The Atlanta Falcons' Tony Gonzales is the latest (quasi-) celebrity to bear it all for an ad campaign for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. In an ad out this month, the vegan tight end posed in the buff with wife October to discourage people against donning fur, joining the likes of Dennis Rodman and Paul McCartney as notables who have stripped for the cameras.
2) Too Soon?
In 1991, less than a month after police arrested Jeffrey Dahmer for murdering 17 men in Ohio and Wisconsin, PETA paid The Des Moines Register $11,214 to run an ad likening the gruesome crime spree — which involved sodomy, necrophilia and cannibalism — to practices within the meatpacking industry. Explaining their decision to run the spot, which was rejected by Milwaukee's newspapers, the Register's national advertising director said the PETA campaign wasn't unlawful, fraudulent, libelous ... or in bad taste. "We were most concerned about separating it from the obituaries," Nancy Jo Trafton-Dyer told USA Today. Protests against the ad soon followed, which PETA's co-founder and national director, Ingrid Newkirk, dismissed as "mock outrage" from the same people who do "nothing in their communities to make sure no one grew up to be another Jeffrey Dahmer."
3) Naughty Veggies
When NBC declined to air a saucy PETA ad featuring scantily clad women embracing their vegetables during the 2009 Super Bowl, the organization sniffled that the network had something against female vegetarians. NBC might have shot back that PETA cares more about the dignity of animals than of women. Testing the adage that "sex sells," the animal-rights group cites in the commercial that "studies show vegetarians have better sex," and proceeds to show simulated foreplay between the nearly nude women and their veggies of choice. The ad, deemed too hot for ABC talk show The View also inspired a reenactment reenactment by co-host and comedian Whoopi Goldberg. Bet you're glad you missed that one.
4) American Kennel Klub?
There's no room for timidity when you're comparing someone to the Ku Klux Klan. That seems to be the driving principle behind PETA's multi-platform campaign accusing the American Kennel Club of prizing "pure bloodines" much in the manner that the Klan does. In addition to a video spot, above, the group launched an online quiz challenging people to try and tell the AKC and the KKK apart, and protested outside the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at New York City's Madison Square Garden in February wearing white robes and hoods. But was the blitz successful? Onlookers in New York seemed befuddled. "Most passers-by seemed more puzzled than offended," the Associated Press reported at the time. A few snapped pictures on their cell phones, and woman stopped to ask, "Is this really the KKK?" Not exactly the message PETA was going for.
5) What on a Plate?
When PETA launched its "Holocaust on Your Plate" campaign in 2003, the animal-rights organization quickly went from kosher to controversial. The exhibit featured eight 60 sq. ft. panels juxtaposing scenes from Nazi death camps with images of factory farms and slaughterhouses. (For example: a photo of concentration-camp inmates crammed into bunkers displayed alongside a snapshot of chickens stuffed into wired cages.) The disturbing comparisons were apparently inspired by Yiddish author and Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, who once wrote of animals: "In relation to them, all people are Nazis." Singer's grandson was even recruited to help promote the campaign. But rallying behind a Jewish vegetarian didn't deter virulent criticism. Groups like the Anti-Defamation League, which fights anti-Semitism, were horrified that the murder of some 6 million Jews in World War II was trivialized, and Germany's high court banned the exhibit altogether. It took Newkirk almost two years to release an apology for the stunt.
6) Cookies n' (Breast) Milk
In September 2008, PETA sent a letter to Ben and Jerry's with a simple request: start making ice cream with milk from humans instead of cows. "The breast is best!" it read. The gross-out scheme—intended, PETA said, to assuage cows' suffering and boost human health—was inspired by reports that a Swiss restaurateur planned to start making the same substitution in his food. Not surprisingly, it never caught on. PETA co-founder Ingrid Newkirk later admitted to TIME that it was a stunt designed to draw attention to the fate of cows forcibly impregnated so they will lactate and calves who face being shipped to inhumane veal farms. "It isn't very feasible at all," she said. "But it was great fun to suggest it."
7) Fried Chicken Cruelty
When Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Harland Sanders died in 1980, he didn't exactly rest in peace. Just steps from Sanders' grave site in Louisville's Cave Hill Cemetery, the group produced a new headstone in 2008 with a seemingly innocent poem about how KFC is a "Kind Friend of Chickens." In reality, the poem was acrostic: the first letter of each line spelled out, in bright-red letters: "KFC Tortures Birds." The cemetery had the headstone removed.
8 ) Lactose Intolerence?
When a 2008 study suggested milk might exacerbate autism, PETA took the opportunity to fashion a typically tasteless ad campaign. In a nod to the famous "Got Milk?" spot, PETA put up a "Got Autism?" billboard in Newark, N.J., suggesting a direct link between dairy and the disease — an argument for which scant evidence exists. Several autism groups rallied to get billboard removed.
9) Fashion Faux Pas
Since its inception in 1980, one of PETA's primary aims has been to rid the world of fur garments harvested from animals. In the same way that police departments hold annual gun buyback programs across the nation — taking guns from people, no questions asked, in exchange for money or gift cards — PETA started collecting fur clothing from reformed wearers in 1988. But what does one do with all that fur? PETA chose to hand them out to the homeless and ship them to Iraq. Newkirk's logic? "When the homeless are wearing fur, you know fur has hit rock bottom."
10) Happy Mother's Day!
Nothing makes for a cheerier Mother's Day celebration than invoking the plight of caged pigs. In 2008, PETA put a naked pregnant woman in a pen in London to encourage people to eat vegetarian — and to call attention to the fact that all days are bad days for knocked-up sows. The temperature in London at the time was a brisk 40°, suggesting that the exhibitionist who played along may have been as nutty as whomever dreamed up this act of lunacy in the first place. |
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I much prefer the alternate PETA group: People Eating Tasty Animals.  
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I will agree that a lot of the things PETA does are out of line, but I will still stand by them because they are the largest animal rights group in the country, and being an animal activist is of top priority to me. I hardly go to their website anymore because of the ridiculous things they do to get attention, and I much prefer the lesser-known but going-for-the-greater-good Farm Sanctuary. They don't pull any stunts, they go for classic education and classic animal rescue. They are a much more respectable vegetarian encouraging organization.
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I grew-up in VA. Beach right over the bridge from their headquarts in Norfolk. Those people have been jerks from the very start. A bunch of them showed up in nothing but bodypaint and chains in front of my little brothers school because the kindergarden was going to the circus that day. They also put pictues of slaughter house in the caff of my highschool and handed out false information about how if we ate meat we would all get cancer and die. The thing that was the last straw with those people in my book is when they were fling dog off bridges and into other water ways to "recuse" them in order to make the news.  I despise those people and they want nothing other then money and fame they don't care about animals or people they just plain old suck. |
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| If there was even a shred of truth to anything on PETA's website, all meat-eaters would have died of 20 different diseases and all vegans would live forever. The local animal shelter does much better work for animal welfare than that circus ever will. |
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PETA is just plain psycho. In California they tried to require that all dogs be fixed. The NRA fought that hard because it would affect the breeding of hunting dogs. People didn't have moral objections to eating meat when they had to kill it themselves, I don't think that people are going to have moral objections to it when someone else kills it for them. Also, they really need to look up nutrition and dentistry and they would see that meat is a necessary part of our diet and that we have some of our teeth designed to cut and tear meat, not soybeans.
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PETA are just plain crazy.
Do they seriously expect to convince people to agree with them by doing stupid stunts? |
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| kxmode wrote: | | I love Chicken PETAs from Jack in the Box! |
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| PlatedDrake wrote: | | I much prefer the alternate PETA group: People Eating Tasty Animals. |
Here a shirt with that message.
http://t-shirts.cafepress.com/anti-peta
They have a lot of other funny shirts as well. |
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I always preferred
Performance Ensemble for Theatrical Anarchy...
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PETA is just so obviously crazy and self-defeating, I can only assume they are secretly funded and controlled by the Keep Meat Production Profitable (And Cruel) organisation. The aim is to discredit anyone who questions the appalling methods used in factory farming. Just because you are anti-animal cruelty, does not mean you are pro-PETA.
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yeah, if we all had to be vegans because of peta, id literally starve to death. It sucks when your body cant break down vegetables and grains at all. So i have to live off of supplements and meat. My body doesnt produce enough enzymes to break down cellulose and similar stuff, so yeah. Its either eat meat, or bloat up til my stomach splits open for me.
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