For those of you who are new, (and judging from the comments, that would be a lot of you), THIS is what happened the last time Mona met Lucas at a hospital.
PETA has every right to express themselves in nonviolent civil disobedience. Oh, they destroy property. They threaten violence Their way or the highway. Well lots of groups have operated that way. The Spanish Inquisition. The Nazi SS. The national Guard at Kent State .Mona loves Smokey.. Nothing like stuffed rabbit.
As Founder and National Chair-Human of People for the Ethical Treatment of Flowers (PETF), Mona should be drawn and quartered. (Well, quartered anyway, since she’s already drawn.)
I don’t support PETA. I eat meat, I wear leather, I have kept pets and will again. But I agree that our treatment of animals is often unethical, and could stand a lot of improvement..
Since PETA operates in public, there are limits to what they can do. Their actions are mostly political theater: issuing press releases, taking out ads, demonstrations, some petty vandalism (of billboards and such) and they must know that their “demands” for the most part will never be met. But I think it’s a case of “Ask for a mile to be given an inch.” A lot of their “inches” - anti-fur, anti-animal testing (on cosmetics, anyway; medical research is a different matter), pro-humane ranching, and so on - are things I support.
The groups who do things like raid animal-testing labs or large-scale property damage (I’m thinking of the Animal Liberation Front) are a different matter (although I’m sure there’s overlapping membership).
Perhaps you could tell me - I sincerely have not been following PETA news - just how much of their activity is of this violent illicit type and how much of that is simply painting them with a false brush.
The most violent thing which I think has been actually done by acknowledged PETA people is throwing buckets of red paint on fur-wearers. They’re very happy to get “in your face,” but if there have been injury assaults (like Lucas’s encounter) done by card-carrying PETA people, done in the name of PETA, I don’t know of them. Like I said, it seems like PETA spends most of its energy issuing sensationalist press releases.
Again, though, there ARE some organizations which are more “proactive” in their methods, and I don’t know that PETA goes out of their way to disavow them. But PETA, being most visible, gets blamed for everybody else’s actions. If PETA could actually be linked to acts of violence, they would have been sued out existence by this point.
I don’t know the difference is as significant as that between Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, but may be along the lines of the difference between the Yippies and the SDS.
margueritem almost 14 years ago
Poor Lucas….
Sisyphos almost 14 years ago
Golly, Lucas! They’re just little yellow flowers! It’s not as though Mona pulled out a blackjack or something….
razorback2824 almost 14 years ago
For those of you who are new, (and judging from the comments, that would be a lot of you), THIS is what happened the last time Mona met Lucas at a hospital.
”WOW! YAY MONA! TEACH HIM A LESSON!”
Wow…just…wow.
hawgowar almost 14 years ago
Peta people should be fed to lions at the zoo.
cdward almost 14 years ago
^Maybe something a little less drastic like tossed in jail.
lewisbower almost 14 years ago
PETA has every right to express themselves in nonviolent civil disobedience. Oh, they destroy property. They threaten violence Their way or the highway. Well lots of groups have operated that way. The Spanish Inquisition. The Nazi SS. The national Guard at Kent State .Mona loves Smokey.. Nothing like stuffed rabbit.
The missing M. Smokey almost 14 years ago
Yellow flowers are non-violets.
RonBerg13 Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Flowers!?!?!… flowers?? …
Heh, flowers…
Mona, you did not come to the hospital to give him flowers…
pschearer Premium Member almost 14 years ago
As Founder and National Chair-Human of People for the Ethical Treatment of Flowers (PETF), Mona should be drawn and quartered. (Well, quartered anyway, since she’s already drawn.)
fritzoid Premium Member almost 14 years ago
I don’t support PETA. I eat meat, I wear leather, I have kept pets and will again. But I agree that our treatment of animals is often unethical, and could stand a lot of improvement..
Since PETA operates in public, there are limits to what they can do. Their actions are mostly political theater: issuing press releases, taking out ads, demonstrations, some petty vandalism (of billboards and such) and they must know that their “demands” for the most part will never be met. But I think it’s a case of “Ask for a mile to be given an inch.” A lot of their “inches” - anti-fur, anti-animal testing (on cosmetics, anyway; medical research is a different matter), pro-humane ranching, and so on - are things I support.
The groups who do things like raid animal-testing labs or large-scale property damage (I’m thinking of the Animal Liberation Front) are a different matter (although I’m sure there’s overlapping membership).
cdward almost 14 years ago
Perhaps you could tell me - I sincerely have not been following PETA news - just how much of their activity is of this violent illicit type and how much of that is simply painting them with a false brush.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 14 years ago
The most violent thing which I think has been actually done by acknowledged PETA people is throwing buckets of red paint on fur-wearers. They’re very happy to get “in your face,” but if there have been injury assaults (like Lucas’s encounter) done by card-carrying PETA people, done in the name of PETA, I don’t know of them. Like I said, it seems like PETA spends most of its energy issuing sensationalist press releases.
Again, though, there ARE some organizations which are more “proactive” in their methods, and I don’t know that PETA goes out of their way to disavow them. But PETA, being most visible, gets blamed for everybody else’s actions. If PETA could actually be linked to acts of violence, they would have been sued out existence by this point.
I don’t know the difference is as significant as that between Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, but may be along the lines of the difference between the Yippies and the SDS.
Adamantius almost 14 years ago
Me too, Lucas, me too…