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I just wanted tog get a basic gauge here on what everyone thought of PETA

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People Eating Tasty Animals is a rather amateurish organization.

Are you referring to the real PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) or the fake one (People Eating Tasty Animals)?

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If you want to get your point across and make people think you are a legit organization, here's a tip:

Don't throw paint on random celebrities and wearers of fur.

Here's the thing with that one: That wasn't PETA's idea, it was the activists' idea, so you can't blame PETA for it.

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Don't hire employees who assist in the euthanization of puppies.

I don't think that was in their job title...

Can you think of any "dos" rather than "don'ts"? I think PETA does a decent job of making themselves look legit (of course, they are legit, they still have a non-profit status after all).

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I dislike them unless they are People Eating Tasty Animals... yum, sausage....

Ick, sausage disgusts me, and not just because they're made out of animal flesh, also because they're pretty gross looking (to me anyway), especially when they put cheese in them (I've watched way too many food shows on shopping channels...).

I dislike them unless they are People Eating Tasty Animals... yum, sausage....

People Eating Tasty Animals is a rather amateurish organization.

If you want to get your point across and make people think you are a legit organization, here's a tip:

Don't throw paint on random celebrities and wearers of fur.

Don't hire employees who assist in the euthanization of puppies.

K. Thx.

Iyiyi... I actually used a prison as an analogy for pets the other day. That psycho-leader is getting in my head!

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. duh!

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Originally posted by letzBloud:
fuck PETA!

Which one?

fuck PETA!

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Originally posted by letzBloud:

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Originally posted by ampmaster:
PETA=People Eating Tasty Animals

what he said! once again dude, i like your style!

Oh please, that joke has been used so many times by so many people (and on a multitude of t-shirts and other merchandise) that it's practically a cliche now.

PETA=People Enabling Tired Acronyms

I am a very big supporter of that PETA

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Originally posted by ampmaster:
PETA=People Eating Tasty Animals

what he said! once again dude, i like your style!

PETA=People Eating Tasty Animals

My opinion on PETA can be summed up in the following:

One summer we were doing one of those one sentence at a time horror stories around the campfire...somehow the tree-hugging PETA members cropped up as the monster...*screams and runs...waving hands around wildly...abandoning her computer completely*

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Originally posted by Slewinca:
[QUOTE] um...my comment was an insult because in South Park, members of PETA were getting married to animals & making out with the animals.

Well, obviously PETA wasn't perfectly represented by that episode. As far as I know, PETA doesn't encourage bestiality or inter-species marriage.
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dude, um, like i said that was an "insult". i know that PETA doesnt really encourage that crap, i simply think that PETA sucks, so i said it.

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um...my comment was an insult because in South Park, members of PETA were getting married to animals & making out with the animals.

Well, obviously PETA wasn't perfectly represented by that episode. As far as I know, PETA doesn't encourage bestiality or inter-species marriage.

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I have heard a lot about how radical AND hypocritical PETA is, and I don't think you can sway me on that.

Try me

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Check this one out, Slewinca: http://www.wimp.com/petaprotest/

Sorry, can't view it. What is it, a clip from South Park?

I have heard a lot about how radical AND hypocritical PETA is, and I don't think you can sway me on that. I agree more with the ASPCA and Humane Society. Check this one out, Slewinca: http://www.wimp.com/petaprotest/

um...my comment was an insult because in South Park, members of PETA were getting married to animals & making out with the animals. i honestly dunno much about PETA nor do i care.

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What about Shiloh, Lassie, Homeward Bound, Dr. Dolittle and so many more?

Those movies all have domesticated animals in them. Dogs and cats can be humanely trained to do tricks and such. With undomesticated animals like chimps, it's different. They have to use very young chimps because the older ones are much stronger and hard-headed. And as you could possibly predict, when the chimp "actors" get too old to be in the business, they're sent away and replaced by a younger set (sometimes to a good sanctuary, but all too often to bad sanctuaries, roadside zoos and laboratories). (see this website for more info: www.nomoremonkeybusiness.com )
All in all, PETA believes that if an animal doesn't have to be used (like if certain technologies exist to replace the animal in a certain scene or scenes), they shouldn't.

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Which, in many cases, happen to be BASED upon animal tests so the volunteer doesn't die foaming at the mouth. We use rats and rabbits instead. Makes sense to me.

Things still happen to the volunteers, mostly because it can be difficult to extrapolate data collected from animal studies to man. Rats and rabbits are physiologically different from humans.

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I don't know, why are PETA memebers against the "exploitation" of animals for medical purposes, yet use animal-derived insulin? My bet is that they're a bunch of ignorant hypocrits.

Actually, it's because they want to use their lives to help more animals than if they were dead. I think you're referring to Mary Beth Sweetland, am I right? I think she uses Humulin, a synthetic human insulin. Regardless, even if she had decided to die rather than take the insulin, you'd be here saying what an extremist nut she was, so there's no winning for her here!

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Vegetarianism is a luxury, and I don't want my tax dollars going to fund a program like that.

Who said it had to be a "program"? Surely it wouldn't cost that much to have at least one vegetarian option on the cafeteria menu every day. While you're at it, you might as well say that schools shouldn't be required to have healthy foods because healthy foods are expensive (compared to junk/fatty foods) and healthy eating is a luxury.

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PETA can set up thier own program, fine with me, but don't go wasting my money so little naive Suzie can be "enabled" to go veggie. She can pay for that herself.

"Enabled"? This isn't a drug or alcohol addiction we're talking about here! Perhaps if more children ate vegetarian meals (I'm not even saying that they be forced to give up meat entirely) there wouldn't be such an epidemic of childhood obesity.

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What about the new King Kong?

Oh yeah we'll go right out and find a four story ape, T-Rexes, and a herd of saruopods to film.

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Uh, we already do that, they're called "clinical trials".

Which, in many cases, happen to be BASED upon animal tests so the volunteer doesn't die foaming at the mouth. We use rats and rabbits instead. Makes sense to me.

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If they are against having pets, then why do PETA employees have dogs and cats and etc.?

I don't know, why are PETA memebers against the "exploitation" of animals for medical purposes, yet use animal-derived insulin? My bet is that they're a bunch of ignorant hypocrits.

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And PETA believes that kids should be able to choose a meat-free school lunch instead of having meat forced on them if they don't bring a bagged lunch.

Vegetarianism is a luxury, and I don't want my tax dollars going to fund a program like that. PETA can set up thier own program, fine with me, but don't go wasting my money so little naive Suzie can be "enabled" to go veggie. She can pay for that herself.

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What about the new King Kong?

What about Shiloh, Lassie, Homeward Bound, Dr. Dolittle and so many more?