Has P.E.T.A. gone too far this time? Brainwashing poor Heidi Klum?

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Apparently, Heidi Klum is planning to marry a seal to protest the wearing of fur! The Washington Post wouldn't misrepresent something this important!

EComplex (EComplex), Thursday, 6 January 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

har har.

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 January 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

Is there a way to write a seal sound? First one to say "Solitary brother..." loses.

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 January 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

do you have a blog where you talk about these issues, and others? oh, i see that you do!

g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 6 January 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

You've found me out. It's devoted exclusively to the Heidi Klum - Gisele Bundchen Continuum.

EComplex (EComplex), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

No wait, that's the name of my band.

EComplex (EComplex), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I think posting on about "seal sounds = 'solitary brother'", etc., etc., etc., would ruin the joke EComplex is trying to make here. (At least I *think* EComplex is trying to be funny....) (Also, lots and lots of South Americans can have very European lineages. Lots of people in Argentina and Brazil, for example.)

Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 6 January 2005 05:50 (twenty years ago)

(Just to comment on a point you were making in your blog thingy.)

Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 6 January 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

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Are you sure she's not intending to marry a Navy Seal? Underwire support for the troops?

Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 6 January 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

Alas, any joke that requires explanation is an unsuccessful. And really that's all it was: a silly joke. The headline didn't specify what kind of seal she was marrying and I suspect that for most WashPo readers, Seal-Singer is not the first seal that comes to mind.

If forced to push much deeper, it's also part of my continuing criticism of the WashPo.com for being
1) apparently unedited most of the time
2) absolutely whorish in its use of lurid celebrity news to attract googlers. Sometimes with stories that don't appear in the print edition at all--certainly almost never with the same prominence.

But mainly, it just sounded like she was marrying a seal. A dark blue one. A "navy" seal.

See, it can go on forever!

EComplex (EComplex), Friday, 7 January 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081013/ap_on_fe_st/odd_name_change

gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 21:12 (sixteen years ago)

There is a weirdly teenaged shortsightedness in that: surely in a few years they'll be driving to a new re-branded website with a different URL!

nabisco, Monday, 13 October 2008 21:14 (sixteen years ago)

I wonder which one of her family members is all "Yeah that's cool I'll call you Cutout..."

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 13 October 2008 21:15 (sixteen years ago)

Dave Coulier

nabisco, Monday, 13 October 2008 21:20 (sixteen years ago)

^^ joke would have been 10,000 x funnier phrased as "Uncle Joey"

nabisco, Monday, 13 October 2008 21:25 (sixteen years ago)

I wouldn't mind if Ms. CutoutDissection.com had the heavenly voice of Heidi Klum's husband and production by Trevor Horn.

Abbott, Monday, 13 October 2008 21:34 (sixteen years ago)

I support her decision, though it does, as nabisco says, seem a liyyle short-sighted. Why not change her name to Stop Dissection Now?

cameron carr, Monday, 13 October 2008 23:15 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.kingdomgraphics.biz/images/blog/cutitout.gif

Every Day Jimmy Mod Is Hustlin' (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 04:18 (sixteen years ago)

Slightly dated, but still worthy of mention:

Burlington, Vt. - This morning, PETA dispatched a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of ice cream icon Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., urging them to replace the cow's milk in their products with human breast milk.

Pillbox, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 06:02 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.peta.org/Sea_Kittens/index.asp#

LOL

Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:16 (sixteen years ago)

People don't seem to like fish. They're slithery and slimy, and they have eyes on either side of their pointy little heads—which is weird, to say the least. Plus, the small ones nibble at your feet when you're swimming, and the big ones—well, the big ones will bite your face off if Jaws is anything to go by.

Of course, if you look at it another way, what all this really means is that fish need to fire their PR guy—stat. Whoever was in charge of creating a positive image for fish needs to go right back to working on the Britney Spears account and leave our scaly little friends alone. You've done enough damage, buddy. We've got it from here. And we're going to start by retiring the old name for good. When your name can also be used as a verb that means driving a hook through your head, it's time for a serious image makeover. And who could possibly want to put a hook through a sea kitten?

℁ (libcrypt), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:23 (sixteen years ago)

Now I'm starting to think of kittens as slithery and slimy.

℁ (libcrypt), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:23 (sixteen years ago)

I already have one land otter.

℁ (libcrypt), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:24 (sixteen years ago)

http://209.180.204.251/endangered/eel-dog.jpg

rent, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:29 (sixteen years ago)

Is there a good reason (fundraising , not looking wishywashy?) that peta chooses causing that are publicly unpalatable and unlikely to be successful?

Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Friday, 24 October 2008 03:28 (sixteen years ago)

Turns out calm, rational discussions don't grab as much attention as TITS TITS NAKED LADIES BOOBIES BOOBIES BOOBIES.

Kerm, Friday, 24 October 2008 03:40 (sixteen years ago)

there is only one Dot Com:

http://www.observer.com/files/imagecache/vertical/files/021930rock.jpg

some dude, Friday, 24 October 2008 05:41 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

This "Sea Kittens" bullshit makes me wonder if PETA actually wants to be laughing stocks.

Velma can stay (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 21:57 (sixteen years ago)

My cat eats "sea kittens" all the time. CANNIBALISM!

Mordy, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 22:02 (sixteen years ago)

cattibalism

Carne Meshuggah (libcrypt), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 22:03 (sixteen years ago)

So EComplex was Pato, right?

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 22:06 (sixteen years ago)

I am angry now that there are not sea kittens. Fuck fish, I want real, actual sea kittens!

Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 22:09 (sixteen years ago)

I'm just sayin' - there's a serious problem with cause and effect here. It's not that people think the word 'kitten' is cute, it's that they think kittens themselves are cute. Anyway, if people will eat something called 'scrod' there's no way that any renaming will change their habits. Call fish 'Natural Ds' if you want - people will still want to eat 'em. Okay, maybe that's not the best example.

Velma can stay (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 22:40 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.peta.org/feat/newkirk/will.html

plenty chong (libcrypt), Saturday, 21 March 2009 19:34 (sixteen years ago)

h. That one of my thumbs be removed, mounted upwards on a plaque, and sent to the person or institution that, in the year of my death or thereabouts, PETA decides has done the most to promote alternatives to the use and abuse of animals in any area of their exploitation

that should encourage them.

joe, Saturday, 21 March 2009 19:38 (sixteen years ago)

d. That one of my eyes be removed, mounted, and delivered to the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a reminder that PETA will continue to be watching the agency until it stops poisoning and torturing animals in useless and cruel experiments; that the other is to be used as PETA sees fit;

Please please please please let me get that EPA job before Ingrid Newkirk dies, please, please....

I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Saturday, 21 March 2009 19:38 (sixteen years ago)

Oh shit, I didn't see that the other eye "is to be used as PETA sees fit"!

Please please please please let me get a job with PETA before Ingrid Newkirk dies so I can do whatever I see fit with her other eye, please, please....

I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Saturday, 21 March 2009 19:39 (sixteen years ago)

what would you do with it? or should this be a separate poll thread?

joe, Saturday, 21 March 2009 19:45 (sixteen years ago)

what a fucking nutcase.

s1ocki, Saturday, 21 March 2009 19:46 (sixteen years ago)

catfish are delicious

M.V., Monday, 23 March 2009 00:32 (sixteen years ago)

eyekabobs

one art, please (Trayce), Monday, 23 March 2009 02:41 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE55H4Z220090618

Mr. Que, Thursday, 18 June 2009 19:28 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc50xF6E7-8

Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 June 2009 19:31 (fifteen years ago)

loooooool I admit my first reaction to the Obama fly-killing was wondering what type of complaint PETA would lodge

HIS VAGINA IS MAKING HIM CRAVE SALAD. (HI DERE), Thursday, 18 June 2009 19:35 (fifteen years ago)

Isn't PETA just doing more harm than good at this point? I mean they've managed to turn a genuine concern for the well-being of animals into a laughingstock.

the sideburns are album-specific (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 18 June 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago)

That is exactly how I feel about them and why I wish they would go away.

HIS VAGINA IS MAKING HIM CRAVE SALAD. (HI DERE), Thursday, 18 June 2009 20:18 (fifteen years ago)

how cool would it be if obama's official presidential response to PETA's complaints was "lol."

what a disaster for 1p3 (k3vin k.), Thursday, 18 June 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago)

or "u mad"

Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Thursday, 18 June 2009 20:20 (fifteen years ago)

C'mon PETA, he gave the fly a chance. "Get outta here!"

Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Thursday, 18 June 2009 20:50 (fifteen years ago)

Hey all, I'm usually on ILM, but this thread caught my interest.

In PETA's defense, the group did not volunteer its view on "flygate" (awesome name). Media outlets came to them for an answer, and the answer they got wasn't at all inflammatory or outlandish. Follow the link above. PETA said:

"Believe it or not, we've actually been contacted by multiple media outlets wanting to know PETA's official response to the executive insect execution," a blog on the group's website explained. "In a nutshell, our position is this: He isn't the Buddha, he's a human being, and human beings have a long way to go before they think before they act."

Basically, PETA wishes Obama exercised a little thought before killing the fly. Maybe he could've caught it and taken it outside or something. (It's what I do when flies enter my home.)

They then sent him a fly catcher that doesn't kill the fly. Oh, and PETA's Bruce Friedrich later added that the organization was appreciative of Obama's voting record on animal rights. And that's about it! There are no real fireworks or controversy here. It's media really trying to create something for us to click on and read.

QuantumNoise, Thursday, 18 June 2009 21:00 (fifteen years ago)

Good take on "flygate" here:

http://ow.ly/eO6F

QuantumNoise, Thursday, 18 June 2009 21:02 (fifteen years ago)

PETA could have said "no comment"

Mr. Que, Thursday, 18 June 2009 21:02 (fifteen years ago)

And here's PETA's original blog post:

http://ow.ly/eO7g

Hardly inflammatory and crazed.

QuantumNoise, Thursday, 18 June 2009 21:03 (fifteen years ago)

That reminds me, I need to add "____gate" to that other thread.

the sideburns are album-specific (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 18 June 2009 21:04 (fifteen years ago)

PETA could have said "no comment"

almost 100% convinced PETA is incapable of saying "no comment"

HIS VAGINA IS MAKING HIM CRAVE SALAD. (HI DERE), Thursday, 18 June 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago)

Why would PETA say "no comment"? Part of the group's job is to voice the opinions and views of its membership and supporters. Now I'm not on board with everything PETA does or says, but I am glad it presents alternative ways of looking at things, even when those ways are distorted by the media.

QuantumNoise, Thursday, 18 June 2009 21:17 (fifteen years ago)

I'd be a lot more pro-PETA if they hadn't advocated killing Michael Vick's dogs without even a cursory evaluation.

Alex in SF, Thursday, 18 June 2009 21:30 (fifteen years ago)

That's one of the reasons why most of my $$$ goes to Best Friends.

QuantumNoise, Thursday, 18 June 2009 21:32 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

i'm gonna go ahead and say "Yes, yes they have"

what the fuck?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0vQOnHW0Kc

dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:11 (thirteen years ago)

that web addy is on some clownpenis.fart shit

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:12 (thirteen years ago)

i think i'm glad i don't understand what you just typed

dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:12 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.dula.tv/watch.php?file=clown-penis-dot-fart.flv

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:14 (thirteen years ago)

old snl sketch

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:14 (thirteen years ago)

even worse - wtf is with the bandaged hand?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vux2Gv-3kw&feature=relmfu

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:15 (thirteen years ago)

haha ok that was funny, i feared some kinda 1 girls/wallogina/goatse thing

dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:16 (thirteen years ago)

ooh xpost not that ad :(

dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:17 (thirteen years ago)

PETA is such a fucking horrible and weird organization

the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:18 (thirteen years ago)

dont they like famously kill billions of animals or something

the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:18 (thirteen years ago)

What the fucking hell is this?

wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:21 (thirteen years ago)

the whole "injure your partner through aggressive lovemaking" is just... ugh

kinda wanna post this on the gender thread it's so fuckd up

max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:24 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, exactly.

wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:31 (thirteen years ago)

that second spot is one of the most revolting things i've ever seen. not that the first one wasn't bad, but holy hell. nothing but gross. can't believe they think anyone will be "into" this shit. fuck PETA.

Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:35 (thirteen years ago)

i have been a vegetarian for 13 years and i dream of somehow causing ruin to PETA

⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:48 (thirteen years ago)

better them than women, you vegetarian stallion

valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:03 (thirteen years ago)

Nah, you gotta go vegan for that. Vegetarians are too half-assed for PETA.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:07 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/2008/01/224-consumer-group-asks-virginia-government-to-reclassify-peta-as-a-slaughterhouse/

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:45 (thirteen years ago)

Center for Consumer Freedom are trolls too but at least their pro-hamburger-deregulation shtick doesn't involve putting pregnant ladies in cages (that link was the mindblosingest).

high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:48 (thirteen years ago)

kinda wanna post this on the gender thread it's so fuckd up

The way they exploit women and minimize violence against them comes across as PETA thinking women are less worthy of rights and respect than animals.

They can go fuck off and die any time.

Nicole, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:11 (thirteen years ago)

wait -- PETA actually takes in animals they say they will find homes for, and then kills 97% of them? WTF.

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:40 (thirteen years ago)

yeah tbh i've never heard a pro-PETA defense of their policy of kill shelters. no-kill shelters exist, and are viable, why wouldn't they just do that?

i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:48 (thirteen years ago)

humanely euthanizing sick abandoned animals may be icky but its kind of a modern necessity

that said, 97% seems like a kind of crazy rate tho

⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:57 (thirteen years ago)

god you guys already have me defending peta

http://www.peta.org/issues/companion-animals/euthanasia.aspx

⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:59 (thirteen years ago)

ok, this is understandable (although i think a lot of stuff about the "dignity" of euthanasia is dubious) -- but still -- 97%???

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 02:01 (thirteen years ago)

ahhh the cat in the picture on that page looks a lot like my cat and now I'm going to have nightmares that PETA is trying to kill my cat

valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 02:54 (thirteen years ago)

this is some bullshit.

j., Wednesday, 15 February 2012 03:44 (thirteen years ago)

humanely euthanizing sick abandoned animals may be icky but its kind of a modern necessity

that said, 97% seems like a kind of crazy rate tho

― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 7:57 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's the 97% bit that seems off, not the euthanizing bit

i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 03:47 (thirteen years ago)

yeah, exactly. one gets the feeling that although they promise to try to find the pets good homes, they don't make any effort to do so.

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 04:35 (thirteen years ago)

too busy fucking obv

ryan, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 04:47 (thirteen years ago)

no matter what, if you kill animals, thousands of animals, perhaps millions of animals, simply because there are too many of them around and you can't be bothered with keeping them alive and happy yourself, then you can hardly waggle your fingers disapprovingly at people who occasionally eat meat, or drink milk, or wear fur. perhaps some of that food or fur came from animals killed humanely and with dignity, after all, and/or animals that would have no other place in the world if they weren't eaten or worn.

if your solution to animal suffering is to kill the suffering animals, then it's monstrously hypocritical to condemn people who kill animals for other reasons. hey, in either event, their suffering is alleviated, right? and would we ever consider euthanizing millions of humans (painlessly and with dignity, of course) simply because we lacked the resources to prevent them from living unhappy lives? fuck no! the right to life trumps the right to be free from suffering, except in the most extreme of cases.

when we kill animals in this way, we're not really alleviating their suffering, anyway. we're alleviating our own sympathetic awareness of their suffering. after all, can an animal tell us that it would rather die than go on? no. then what right does a supposedly super-humane, super-righteous animal rights organization have to make that decision for untold numbers of healthy animals? fucking none. it's mere convenience, easing the pangs of a guilty conscience.

Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 06:10 (thirteen years ago)

^ overstating the case, there. i mean, i know why peta does this. they take the animals in because they feel morally obliged to, because no one else will and because they would be killed less humanely otherwise. they give the animals a shot at adoption, but they can't provide for the numbers forced on them, and they aren't allowed to release the animals back into the "wild". so, eventually, they do what they must, in a sense taking the moral bullet for a society too cowardly to deal directly with the consequences of its own decisions. i get all that, but no matter how noble their aims may be, the compromise makes the aggressive self-righteousness of peta's rhetoric and tactics rather galling.

Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 06:19 (thirteen years ago)

i agree that peta are a bunch of morons and would like to know a little more abt the 97% report but bro you cant equate euthanizing unwanted animals with raising and slaughtering animals in an inhumane way for profit

⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 06:22 (thirteen years ago)

not doing that though, just talking about the way we construct the moral right to kill. peta allow itself to kill animals in order to prevent anticipated suffering, as a sort of antidote to potential suffering. that's all well and good, but why shouldn't a similar exculpatory logic be applicable to other animal killings? regardless of whether or not such killings specifically intend to prevent suffering, they do in fact accomplish this end. no life, no pain. and the animals involved hardly have a place in the world otherwise.

i know i'm splitting moral/philosophical hairs here, but peta's approach strikes me as deeply hypocritical. when i see stray cats in the garbage cans (on kauai, say), i don't think, "oh my god, someone needs to rescue those poor helpless things!" i think, "hey, there are some wild animals." and i figure they have as much right to be there and do that as any wild animal. even if they're diseased. even if they die young. i do not imagine that their lives would be improved by euthanasia. the fact that they descend from domesticated creatures does not suggest to me that they must either be repatriated into pet-dom or be killed.

Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 06:51 (thirteen years ago)

"after all, can an animal tell us that it would rather die than go on?"

Having euthanized two very sick cats last year, trust me, they can.

The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 11:18 (thirteen years ago)

yeah, that's OTM. i've been in that position myself.

i was primarily addressing peta's euthanization of healthy animals. their moral logic seems to be based on the assumption that the animals would probably suffer if left to their own devices, and that seems super questionable to me.

Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:43 (thirteen years ago)

"Dude, since you are currently unemployed and sick, I'm just going to go ahead and extrapolate from here that the rest of your life is going to suck and just kill you now so you can avoid that suffering. You're welcome."

Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:47 (thirteen years ago)

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RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:52 (thirteen years ago)

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the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:54 (thirteen years ago)

contenderizer, there is no place for those animals to go. it's a completely different situation from the meat industry. peta isn't euthanizing those animals because it likes the way they taste. they euthanize them because no one will take care of them and they have to make room for more animals that will also not be adopted. if you have a place that will take care of these animals, I'm sure they'd be delighted to hear about it.

unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:59 (thirteen years ago)

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This should be a Wii game.

The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:02 (thirteen years ago)

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(thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:05 (thirteen years ago)

contenderizer, there is no place for those animals to go. it's a completely different situation from the meat industry. peta isn't euthanizing those animals because it likes the way they taste. they euthanize them because no one will take care of them and they have to make room for more animals that will also not be adopted.

yeah, but peta doesn't have to take in all the stray and unwanted animals in the world. if they end up killing the vast (VAST) majority of them, then how in any way can they claim to be serving the animals' best interests by taking them in in the first place? the only argument i can see is that they intend to kill them more humanely than others might, and that's an awful narrow ledge on which to prop your moral authority.

i'm not objecting to the euthanasia, per se. i'm objecting to the combination of peta's massive, massive euthanasia rate with their total intolerance for the way other people deal with animals. it's the hypocrisy that bugs me, not that they kill animals. i'm a meat-eater, after all...

Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:07 (thirteen years ago)

personally I am objecting to PETA thinking it's a-okay for vegan men to beat the shit out of their female sex partners, if we can get this thread back on track

(thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:08 (thirteen years ago)

aerosmith and DJP both otm

⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:13 (thirteen years ago)

I am objecting to PETA thinking it's a-okay for vegan men to beat the shit out of their female sex partners

with love

Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:26 (thirteen years ago)

and penises

(thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:26 (thirteen years ago)

On the issue of beating the shit out of their female sex partners, not only is PETA well beyond the pale, but it conclusively demonstrates its head is so far up its ass it is in danger of disappearing. Condemnation seems like too weak a response to shit like that.

(In 2006, PETA...) managed to find adoptive homes for just 12 animals. Not counting pets brought to PETA for spaying or neutering, the organization killed 2,981 of the 3,061

otoh, this is entirely wtf. It's like a bunch of kids having an imaginary tea party, except its a bunch of clueless people playing at running an animal shelter. They have all the tiny teacups and the little table and say grown up things to each other, but allow me to point out that 2006 was the height of the fucking housing boom and they still couldn't find homes for more than a dozen animals??!!

I won't go into whether or not euthanizing 97% of the animals in their shelter fits PETA's moral pretensions or not. Those statistics reek of incompetance.

Cosy Moments (Aimless), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:32 (thirteen years ago)

(In 2006, PETA...) managed to find adoptive homes for just 12 animals.

this is incredible

(thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:35 (thirteen years ago)

I'm not gonna excuse the numbers, but I have volunteered for animal adoption organizations, and it is very, very, very hard to place animals, especially adult animals, and ESPECIALLY adult animals with behavioral or health problems, as a lot of animals up for adoption are likely to be.

The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:38 (thirteen years ago)

I'm not gonna excuse the numbers, but...

I think we all understand the mission of animal shelters and how hard it is to fulfill that mission, so it really does come down to the numbers here and what they say about the way that shelter is being run.

Cosy Moments (Aimless), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:45 (thirteen years ago)

(In 2006, PETA...) managed to find adoptive homes for just 12 animals. Not counting pets brought to PETA for spaying or neutering, the organization killed 2,981 of the 3,061

i would guess that the money peta spends on making battered women look sexy could also have been spent on keeping a few of those animals alive for a while

Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:46 (thirteen years ago)

contenderizer otm ^^^^ I was trying to think of something similar to say earlier, instead of paying a big celeb to do a photoshoot, spend that money keeping some animals alive

Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:52 (thirteen years ago)

I suspect the celebs donate their phiz to The Cause, but the production of ads and placing the ads costs $$$.

Cosy Moments (Aimless), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:54 (thirteen years ago)

Ok just to get some comparison statistics up in here, in 2011 Battersea dogs and cats home in London housed over 5000 animals; in 2009 it had to put down one third of the dogs it took in.

ledge, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:15 (thirteen years ago)

And from the first article linked:

(despite its $32 million budget), PETA does not operate a public “shelter” where members of the public may select dogs or cats and adopt them into their homes.

Basically they're not even trying.

ledge, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:19 (thirteen years ago)

(Battersea 2011 budget £13.5 million)

ledge, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:26 (thirteen years ago)

when we kill animals in this way, we're not really alleviating their suffering, anyway. we're alleviating our own sympathetic awareness of their suffering. after all, can an animal tell us that it would rather die than go on? no. then what right does a supposedly super-humane, super-righteous animal rights organization have to make that decision for untold numbers of healthy animals? fucking none. it's mere convenience, easing the pangs of a guilty conscience.

yes. thank you. i cried reading this because i've felt this way for some time without being able or willing to articulate it.

does this mean that, as a rule, we should watch our pets suffer until they die "naturally"? i don't know that i could insist on that or even follow through on it myself. but a lot of the blandishments we use to justify the inevitable decision to euthanize our dogs and cats seem very dubious to me. much more so when the animals aren't obviously suffering but simply can't be provided for in the way we think domestic animals should be provided for.

there is no right and certainly no easy answer for this problem, but the type of blandishments folks use to make themselves feel better about euthanizing pets seem deeply false to me.

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 04:20 (thirteen years ago)

it seems really weird to describe death as "alleviating suffering." yes, in a sense that you are eradicating the consciousness that defined that suffering, you are "alleviating" it. but is non-being really preferable to suffering? that's obviously something that individuals have to decide for themselves. unfortunately pets do not get that opportunity, so to mollify our consciences we find all kinds of ways of describing the eradication of consciousness as peaceful, humane, etc.

we could extend this to humans but i don't even want to go there.

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 04:22 (thirteen years ago)

but is non-being really preferable to suffering?

Hell, yes!

Steamtable Willie (WmC), Friday, 17 February 2012 04:26 (thirteen years ago)

personally I am objecting to PETA thinking it's a-okay for vegan men to beat the shit out of their female sex partners, if we can get this thread back on track

― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, February 15, 2012 2:08 PM (Yesterday)

hmmmm there are obvious problems with that ad but i don't think domestic violence is one of them. you could make the case that it trivializes domestic violence, but that's not what you're saying

ploppawheelie V (k3vin k.), Friday, 17 February 2012 04:30 (thirteen years ago)

who knew it was that simple?

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 04:30 (thirteen years ago)

xpost

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 04:30 (thirteen years ago)

it seems like even if they were dying to go with this dumb concept, they could have easily made a second version with the genders switched \o_o/

dave cool, Friday, 17 February 2012 04:46 (thirteen years ago)

i think they think they are being "un-P.C." and thus cool.

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 04:48 (thirteen years ago)

fucking morons.

⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 17 February 2012 04:56 (thirteen years ago)

Or two vegan guys, what about that then?

Too edgy?

Mark G, Friday, 17 February 2012 09:34 (thirteen years ago)

http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thecutline/peta-jenny-2.jpg

"would smash"

slugbuggy, Friday, 17 February 2012 10:42 (thirteen years ago)

dang

slugbuggy, Friday, 17 February 2012 10:43 (thirteen years ago)

anyway, wouldn't a psa that parodies the seriousness of psas dilute the effectiveness of peta's actually serious psas?

slugbuggy, Friday, 17 February 2012 10:49 (thirteen years ago)

like, any time from now on when they do an ad about how cows suffer to provide milk i'm gonna assume there's going to be a punchline about how milk makes you spunk harder or something.

slugbuggy, Friday, 17 February 2012 10:56 (thirteen years ago)

That'd be Soya Milk, obviously.

Mark G, Friday, 17 February 2012 10:58 (thirteen years ago)

well, yeah, i just think that my first instinct when i hear that somber piano music should be be something like "this is a horrible tragedy; i should donate a lot of money and do a march or volunteer," not "and then i knocked the bottom out of that shit."

slugbuggy, Friday, 17 February 2012 11:07 (thirteen years ago)

OT but it is really weird as a Britishish to hear that the weirdly prissy 'knocked the bottom out of me' is actual slang for vigorous sex. I'd say hilarious but, you know, within the general context of sexytimes being conflated with assault..

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 17 February 2012 11:24 (thirteen years ago)

it's funny that the guy still looks schlubby and bespectacled and .. you know, vegan.

desperado, rough rider (thomp), Friday, 17 February 2012 11:59 (thirteen years ago)

I resemble that remark

mod flanders (m bison), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:01 (thirteen years ago)

yeah, but he PACKS!

Basically, it's a crap advert, as well as being terrible.

Mark G, Friday, 17 February 2012 12:01 (thirteen years ago)

what would happen if everybody did go vegan? Cows would become extinct within a couple of generations and everybody would be left without bottoms. That's not a future I believe in, PETA.

thomasintrouble, Friday, 17 February 2012 12:08 (thirteen years ago)

And without bottoms, we'd all become extinct!

Mark G, Friday, 17 February 2012 12:13 (thirteen years ago)

I never want to watch that ad again but is it explained at any point why going vegan gives you lots of sexy vim? I know, there's lots to object to apart from the internal logic, but still...

seandalai, Friday, 17 February 2012 12:53 (thirteen years ago)

is it explained at any point why going vegan gives you lots of sexy vim?

No. And That's why it's a crap advert.

The other objectionable stuff is why it's a terrible advert.

Mark G, Friday, 17 February 2012 12:55 (thirteen years ago)

In fairness, all the vegans I know are really hott, so there might be something in it. However, the sample may be too low to be statistically significant.

get ready for the banter (NotEnough), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:56 (thirteen years ago)

being as it's a sample of three people, and two of them are seeing each other.

get ready for the banter (NotEnough), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:57 (thirteen years ago)

any injuries?

Mark G, Friday, 17 February 2012 12:58 (thirteen years ago)

i had never heard "knocked the bottom out of me" used in any context before. so thanks for that, peta.

how did we get here how? (ytth), Saturday, 18 February 2012 02:32 (thirteen years ago)

would we ever consider euthanizing millions of humans simply because we lacked the resources to prevent them from living unhappy live

Negative utilitarianism

It hasn't be espoused outside of philosophy thought pieces but its out there.

Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Saturday, 18 February 2012 03:04 (thirteen years ago)

Humans die on their own when you withhold life's necessities, or if you put them in a war zone, and this has been thought a sufficient substitute for euthanasia of millions of humans since time out of mind.

Aimless, Saturday, 18 February 2012 03:09 (thirteen years ago)

BTW, I'm another vegan that kinda hates PETA. Not for their motives, or the euthanasia, but for their tone-deafness.

There's a bit of a rationale why vegan diets might prevent erectile dysfunction (both male and female) in the middle aged. Here's its handled outside PETA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ECnqXQpDA

PETA could have made a perfectly convincing vid featuring an attractive middle aged woman lamenting her hamburger eating partner's inability to satisfy and looking longingly at the affectionate similarly aged vegan couple. But I guess we wouldn't be talking about that one.

Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Saturday, 18 February 2012 03:13 (thirteen years ago)

re: negative utilitarianism

lol, yeah. there books and "movements" dedicated to non-procreation. not just the idea that people should refrain from having kids, but that the entire human race has a moral obligation to voluntarily extinguish itself by not reproducing. this because life necessarily entails suffering, you see, and we can't have that.

Little GTFO (contenderizer), Saturday, 18 February 2012 03:40 (thirteen years ago)

makes sense.

⚓ (gr8080), Saturday, 18 February 2012 03:48 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.theonion.com/articles/scientists-look-onethird-of-the-human-race-has-to,27166/

kinder, Saturday, 18 February 2012 07:18 (thirteen years ago)

One of those 'movements', Chris Korda's Church of Euthanasia released a fabulous electroclash album about ten years ago but they seem to have disappeared.

Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Saturday, 18 February 2012 08:17 (thirteen years ago)

Or two vegan guys, what about that then?

Too edgy?

― Mark G, Friday, 17 February 2012 09:34 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My bad, there is a whole set of these, and yes there is a 'gay guys' one.

Mark G, Saturday, 18 February 2012 12:45 (thirteen years ago)

lol, yeah. there books and "movements" dedicated to non-procreation.

like certain groups of shakers

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 18 February 2012 12:58 (thirteen years ago)

huh i remember touring a shaker village as a kid and that point in partics stuck out the most

the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Saturday, 18 February 2012 15:30 (thirteen years ago)

(i was with my family, i didn't go on some childhood tour of shaker villages)

the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Saturday, 18 February 2012 15:31 (thirteen years ago)

i knew that the shakers don't procreate, but i didn't (and still don't) know anything about their reasons for this. always figured it was probably a puritan thing, rising above base urgings and all. are you saying, amateurist, that it reflects an antinatalist objection to bringing children into a world of suffering?

antinatalism

the voluntary human extinction movement

an antinatalist muses on 'the shaker problem'

Little GTFO (contenderizer), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:54 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

“Kanye can't help making himself look like an idiot, whether at an awards show or a fashion show,” PETA'S Matthews lashed into Yeezy during the time. “He and his girlfriend look like pathetic creatures from a shabby roadside zoo.”

the late great, Friday, 6 April 2012 03:46 (thirteen years ago)

classy

God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Friday, 6 April 2012 11:19 (thirteen years ago)

worst.

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Friday, 6 April 2012 14:56 (thirteen years ago)

They deserve each other.

beachville, Friday, 6 April 2012 14:59 (thirteen years ago)

they sorta do look like that though, if you look at the pics

the late great, Friday, 6 April 2012 15:13 (thirteen years ago)

^^ actually funny

http://cdn.buzznet.com/media/jj1//2010/01/kanye-fur/kanye-west-amber-rose-fur-coats-louis-vuitton-paris-fashion-week-02.jpg

kanye looks like a furry with a "rolling in dirt" fetish

she looks like she's wearing a polar bear costume

the late great, Friday, 6 April 2012 16:13 (thirteen years ago)

Wow, that Huff post piece describes Ticker Max as "the author," as in "would not accept the author's donation."

carl agatha, Friday, 6 April 2012 17:54 (thirteen years ago)

six months pass...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/19/showbiz/tv/peta-animal-practice-canceled/index.html?hpt=en_c1

okay lol

The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Friday, 19 October 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2012/10/08/peta-pokemon-animal-abuse/

Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Friday, 19 October 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago)

These people are ridiculous.

carl agatha, Saturday, 20 October 2012 01:26 (twelve years ago)

You can't spell incompetance without peta.

Aimless, Saturday, 20 October 2012 01:32 (twelve years ago)

they are ridiculous yet I want to defend them just because my animal-hating trapper of an uncle constantly posts anti-peta shit on his fb.

akm, Saturday, 20 October 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago)

i'm fine with their claiming a victory when ppl aren't interested in a comedy about vets featuring a monkey in a lab coat

zvookster, Saturday, 20 October 2012 12:02 (twelve years ago)

otm

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, 20 October 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago)

five months pass...

I've seen this article being passed around a bit today:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-j-winograd/peta-kills-puppies-kittens_b_2979220.html

I haven't seen it picked up by any real publications. Wondering about how real these claims are? It seems pretty fucked up if true.

polyphonic, Monday, 8 April 2013 18:26 (twelve years ago)

Pretty much all my vegan acquaintances on other sites despise PETA, though usually for their pandering sexism than their negative utilitarianism.

As far as I'm concerned, about the only worthwhile thing PETA does is partially fund the The Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine, and even there, I wish Dr. Bernard found other benefactors.

Me So Hormetic (Sanpaku), Monday, 8 April 2013 21:34 (twelve years ago)

Also xp, the allegations are well founded. The HBO documentary I am an Animal: Ingrid Newkirk and PETA follows along Newkirk and some PETA workers who "rescue" a pit chained to a tree, bring it to the HQ, and pretty swiftly euthanize it. Its not out of cruel intention, just a peculiar, insular and cultish groupthink among Newkirk's inner-circle that non-existence is a better fate than the vicissitudes life might bring.

One almost expects the DC news to report PETA's steering committee found slumped over their conference table surrounded by empty pentobarbital syringes.

Me So Hormetic (Sanpaku), Monday, 8 April 2013 21:47 (twelve years ago)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0gbwdY1MH1qjt6h1o1_500.jpg

carl agatha, Monday, 8 April 2013 22:45 (twelve years ago)

Wait no this one is better

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1121/4733436305_5bb8e96eef_z.jpg

carl agatha, Monday, 8 April 2013 22:46 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

this facial expression

john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 22:25 (eleven years ago)

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

smooth hymnal (m bison), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 23:13 (eleven years ago)


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