PETA goes after the Olsen Twins!

[DesignFox]

Interestingly enough, have you ever noticed they don't go after people wearing leather? I guess they figured it was a lot safer to throw paint at young girls and old ladies in fur coats than at bikers in leather.

My jacket happens to be of the biker variety. It's from my heavy metal, all black, t-shirt and baggy pants with spiked collar/wrist band wearing days... I bet they wouldn't have thrown paint on me...

I still listen to the metal, but I'm getting into "responsible" ages...no more spiked collars for me. Damn adulthood. *chuckle*

[MadMike]

I'd join you. That'd be good times. Can I wear my leather jacket?

Interestingly enough, have you ever noticed they don't go after people wearing leather? I guess they figured it was a lot safer to throw paint at young girls and old ladies in fur coats than at bikers in leather.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I hate PETA; tho they have some good issues in their group, I refuse to support them or any of their factions cuz they are pretty much terrorists. Like the idiots who released a load of mink from a fur farm in the same county as me; the fact that the mink were attacking children, lambs and birds didn't seem to matter to the idiots who set them free. -.-

Also, the Animal Liberation Front are just as bad; they dug up an old lady's corpse from a graveyard just to make a point. Sickos.

Mink: http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/minks.asp

ALF: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...re/4762481.stm

[Seshat]

I'm in agreement with ArenaBoy. I'm not a vegetarian, but I do think that animals, even those we're going to eat or otherwise use, should be kept humanely.

(Oddly enough, I'm not vegetarian partly for ecological reasons: on this continent, we have limited arable land. Grazing animals is the most ecologically sound way I've been able to find to produce human-edible food on semi-fertile land. You just have to be careful which grasses you use, how much water you use, what you do with the waste, and be careful not to overstock.)

Back to the topic: PETA are not just extremists, they seem to be hypocritical extremists. And that's a double embarassment.

[ArenaBoy]

I am a vegetarian and a animal rights person and I will instantly say that PETA is an embarrassment to me. I love animals and I own a greyhound whom I rescued when he was abandoned at race track. But what PETA is doing is just sending our cause back into the Stone Age.

[DesignFox]

Am I the only one who has the urge to rent the Oscar Mayer WeinieMobile and host a bar-b-q across the street of PETA's headquarters?

I'd join you. That'd be good times. Can I wear my leather jacket?

[rahmota]

Am I the only one who has the urge to rent the Oscar Mayer WeinieMobile and host a bar-b-q across the street of PETA's headquarters?

Heck I'm up for a road trip in the weiner mobile anyhow!!!

[IDrinkaRum]

Hahahaha! I'd actually help you on that quest! LOL ... Sure I have friends who are vegetarians and vegans and anywhere in between. However, they are not obnoxious about it. They don't care if I eat meat or not.

Ah well, road trip in the WeinerMobile! I love it!

[Parrothead]

Am I the only one who has the urge to rent the Oscar Mayer WeinieMobile and host a bar-b-q across the street of PETA's headquarters?

[daleduke17]

I have no problem with animals being used, as long as as much of the animal is used as that can possibly be used.

PETA is a bunch of (as previously stated) whackjobs.

[Dreamstalker]

Call me crazy, but I'd actually like to try insect foods like grubs, crickets, ants, etc...I do know of a website which stocks insect candy (chocolate-covered scorpions anyone?), but it's UK-based and what with the exchange rate...

[MystyGlyttyr]

I'll eat just about any animal so long as I don't know it personally. Except for cat. That's not because I like kitties so much, it's because I think they look like they'd taste bad. Burnt grasshopper tastes just like burnt popcorn, btw.

[DesignFox]

As an example of some of our bias...
"...the only reason we don't eat people is 'cause it tastes lousy"

cookies for the reference.

There is a definite prejudice among humans regarding which animals we save, those we eat and those we murder outright. It all depends on their cuteness or usefulness...or downright peskiness (i.e. cockroaches).

A high school teacher once asked our class if bread mold and koala bears both were endangered and we could only save one, which would it be.

Now, I knew what she was getting at, but being a smart-ass said "Koalas, because I am allergic to penicillin and it is hazardous to my health." I received a death-glare.

I believe there is also a M*A*S*H episode that makes reference to not eating horses because they are noble animals, but doing pigs a favor by eating them because they are ugly. (Colonel Potter- he is upset at the talk about Korean villagers eating horses because they have no other meat)

We are biased. I would never eat a horse (knowingly) but I love beef, pork, chicken....etc. etc. I don't think I could ever eat an animal that had a name...but...well....

[AFPheonix]

With that said, I find it interesting that these fools only support giving rights to certain animals. When's the last time you heard of protests for cockroaches?

Pretty much. there's a definite warm-blooded, vertebrate bias as far as a lot of animal rights organizations go.

[Rapscallion]

Interestingly enough, this reminds me of a recent case we had to deal with. There's a company called Ecover over here. It had the coveted Vegan Society sticker on their goods - they're all household cleaning products, but they have a strict no-animal testing policy, ergo the mark.

They landed in some PR hot water recently when it was revealed that they had commissioned some testing, but it turned out to be on water fleas. These are creatures ranging from half a millimetre to two millimetres or so. They are also not covered by European standards for animal testing, therefore they weren't considered for that.

Some people stopped buying their goods over this. Most of us just said "meh" and got on with our lives. The products, by the way, are apparently completely biodegradeable, hence the reason we stock them.

Rapscallion