08-08-2008, 10:31 PM
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08-08-2008, 10:31 PM
Normally I am not so vindictive and violent, but I almost wish that the leader of that group would have his head chopped off. Because, well God would be punishing him for his sins, wouldn't he?
08-08-2008, 10:44 PM
The other insensitive story about this whole thing is that PETA was using it to try to promote their cause.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/s...ional/home
The Canadian Press
August 6, 2008 at 9:51 PM EDT
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. — An animal rights group has tried – and failed – to run a newspaper ad comparing the beheading of a passenger on a Greyhound bus last week to the treatment of animals by the meat industry.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, said on its website it would run the ad in the Portage la Prairie Daily Graphic.
However, city editor Tara Seel said the newspaper had no intention of running the ad, which uses imagery of “an innocent victim's throat” being cut, in reference to the slaughter of cows, chickens and pigs on factory farms.
“His struggles and cries are ignored ... the man with the knife shows no emotion ... the victim is slaughtered and his head cut off ... his flesh is eaten,” reads the ad, which is posted on the website.
“If this ad leaves a bad taste in your mouth, please give a thought to what sensitive animals think and feel when they come to the end of their frightening journey and see, hear and smell the slaughterhouse.”
Ms. Seel would not specify reasons for why the newspaper was choosing not to run the ad, except to say it wasn't something they wanted to do. She noted the newspaper had been inundated with calls from other media since the posting to the PETA website.
Vince Weiguang Li, 40, of Edmonton, has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of 22-year-old carnival worker Tim McLean, who was stabbed and decapitated aboard a Greyhound bus on July 30.
Mr. Li has been ordered by a judge to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
“Like human victims, animals in slaughterhouses experience terror when they are attacked by a knife-wielding assailant,” Lindsay Rajt of PETA said in a news release. “We are challenging everyone who is rightly horrified by this crime to look into their hearts and consider leaving violence off their dinner plates.”
Ms. Rajt said the ad was intended to be shocking and is meant to spur people to think about the terror and pain experienced by animals who are raised and killed for food.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/s...ional/home
The Canadian Press
August 6, 2008 at 9:51 PM EDT
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. — An animal rights group has tried – and failed – to run a newspaper ad comparing the beheading of a passenger on a Greyhound bus last week to the treatment of animals by the meat industry.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, said on its website it would run the ad in the Portage la Prairie Daily Graphic.
However, city editor Tara Seel said the newspaper had no intention of running the ad, which uses imagery of “an innocent victim's throat” being cut, in reference to the slaughter of cows, chickens and pigs on factory farms.
“His struggles and cries are ignored ... the man with the knife shows no emotion ... the victim is slaughtered and his head cut off ... his flesh is eaten,” reads the ad, which is posted on the website.
“If this ad leaves a bad taste in your mouth, please give a thought to what sensitive animals think and feel when they come to the end of their frightening journey and see, hear and smell the slaughterhouse.”
Ms. Seel would not specify reasons for why the newspaper was choosing not to run the ad, except to say it wasn't something they wanted to do. She noted the newspaper had been inundated with calls from other media since the posting to the PETA website.
Vince Weiguang Li, 40, of Edmonton, has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of 22-year-old carnival worker Tim McLean, who was stabbed and decapitated aboard a Greyhound bus on July 30.
Mr. Li has been ordered by a judge to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
“Like human victims, animals in slaughterhouses experience terror when they are attacked by a knife-wielding assailant,” Lindsay Rajt of PETA said in a news release. “We are challenging everyone who is rightly horrified by this crime to look into their hearts and consider leaving violence off their dinner plates.”
Ms. Rajt said the ad was intended to be shocking and is meant to spur people to think about the terror and pain experienced by animals who are raised and killed for food.
08-09-2008, 07:49 PM
I kind of get the PETA angle, I do. I recently blogged something very similar, having seen a wall of moose and deer heads RIGHT after the news that Tim McLean had been decapitated had been released. I personally don't see a difference. I know a lot of people do, they think that there is a huge difference between humans and animals, but I don't, so I do get the PETA perspective.
In light of the fact that it's an insanely unpopular opinion, though, I agree... it is insensitive to publish stuff like that. We can think it, but we can't really say it out loud.
MHO.
In light of the fact that it's an insanely unpopular opinion, though, I agree... it is insensitive to publish stuff like that. We can think it, but we can't really say it out loud.
MHO.
PrairieGirl
08-09-2008, 08:33 PM
Jo Wrote:I kind of get the PETA angle, I do. I recently blogged something very similar, having seen a wall of moose and deer heads RIGHT after the news that Tim McLean had been decapitated had been released. I personally don't see a difference. I know a lot of people do, they think that there is a huge difference between humans and animals, but I don't, so I do get the PETA perspective.
Well, I gather that in Canada, just as in the USA, it is legal to hunt game in season, and legal to mount trophies. I'm not arguing that it's right, or tasteful, or aesthetically pleasing as a home decor style. But it's not necessarily a sign of a pathology. I object to PETA's insinuation that hunting is a pathology, which could lead to some whack-job decapitating his seat-mate on a bus.
08-09-2008, 09:01 PM
PrairieGirl Wrote:I object to PETA's insinuation that hunting is a pathology, which could lead to some whack-job decapitating his seat-mate on a bus.
I don't think they're saying that. I think they're saying: Hey, if what that guy did on the bus is repulsive and disgusting to you, then why isn't it repulsive and disgusting when people do it to animals? Animals are no different, they feel pain, they have a right to live, etc. Why is there a difference?
I just wish PETA would spread their messages in a different way, because the way they do it now is a turn-off, even to people who want to agree with them. I like a lot of what they do and believe in, but I can't support fully them because I really dislike they way they go about most of their campaigns.
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