PETA to Alaskans: "Don't Eat Fish" (Anchorage, Kodiak: houses, rent)

[itdincor]

Yeah, right: that'll work. Nuts and berries, you bet. Maybe they should take this fish empathy quilt to, oh, Kodiak? Dutch? Why don't they bring it here to Sand Point?

I'm sure they'd get a reception ....

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KTVA - PETA protest

PETA protest
KTVA Staff
Article Last Updated: 11/08/2007 06:47:16 PM AKST

PETA is sounding the sirens. Thursday the animal rights group was in Anchorage asking Alaskans to quit eating fish.

They say the consumption of one of Alaska's most popular dishes is inhumane. They are traveling the nation with a fish empathy quilt. It depicts 100 good reasons to show respect for fish and not treat them like inanimate objects.

"Anyone who eats fish supports cruelty to animals. Fish and other sea animals undergo excruciating decompression when they are pulled from the water. The survivors are then slowly suffocated, starved, hacked apart while still conscious or crushed by the weight of other animals," said Lindsay Rajt of PETA.

On the flipside, the state's fishing industry says they will not even warrant the demonstration with a response.

[Lindsey_Mcfarren]

Hey, I take GREAT exception to this, I have the utmost respect for fish, especially when prepared with a nice crab stuffing and nice cream sauce. Maybe a side of rice pillaf.

[warptman]

I love dried, fried, baked, grilled, smoked, polked, boiled, broiled, sushi. I love them in a tote, i love them next to the boat...all ways you prepare them.

[Glitch]

Don't mess with our salmon!

[spleenificus]

I wonder how long it would take a PETA member to discover just how tasty fish really are if they were stuck in a subsistence area of AK for a whole winter....

[Rance]

What do PETA people eat? Crackers and carrot sticks? I vote eat fish.

[msina]

Originally Posted by Rance

What do PETA people eat? Crackers and carrot sticks? I vote eat fish.

if vegetarians eat vegetables,.. what do humanitarians eat?

[mal_flisk]

Jeez, these people should get a life. Hey, PETA! Examine your teeth. Note incisors and canines. Made to chew and rend MEAT... Please note the eyeballs centered on the front of the head. This is a sign of a predator. Herbivores have eyes on the sides of their head, the better to see predators approaching. Predators eyes are on the front of the head, to focus on prey. But hey, what does mother nature know? Note the remains of the vermiform appendix. This is the organ, which if it was not a leftover, would allow us to process cellulose, the primary ingredient in grasses and woods. In herbivores, this is fully formed. Hmmm. I think I'll stick to meat and fish.

<Slavers, drools and grins over ribs for dinner tonight>

[thepenartist]

Peta Kills Animals

PETA's Dirty Secret

Hypocrisy is the mother of all credibility problems, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has it in spades.
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[thepenartist]

Peta Kills Animals

7 Things You Didn't Know About PETA


1) PETA president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk has described her group’s overall goal as “total animal liberation.” This means no meat, no milk, no zoos, no circuses, no wool, no leather, no hunting, no fishing, and no pets (not even seeing-eye dogs). PETA is also against all medical research that requires the use of animals.

2) Despite its constant moralizing about the “unethical” treatment of animals by restaurant owners, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers, and countless other Americans, PETA has killed over 14,400 dogs and cats at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. During 2005, PETA put to death over 90 percent of the animals it collected from members of the public.

3) PETA has given tens of thousands of dollars to convicted arsonists and other violent criminals. This includes a 2001 donation of $1,500 to the North American Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an FBI-certified “domestic terrorist” group responsible for dozens of firebombs and death threats. During the 1990s, PETA paid $70,200 to an Animal Liberation Front (ALF) activist convicted of burning down a Michigan State University research laboratory. In his sentencing recommendation, a federal prosecutor implicated PETA president Ingrid Newkirk in that crime. And PETA vegetarian campaign coordinator Bruce Friedrich told an animal rights convention in 2001 that “blowing stuff up and smashing windows” is “a great way to bring about animal liberation.”

4) PETA activists regularly target children as young as six years old with anti-meat and anti-milk propaganda, often waiting outside their schools to intercept them as they walk to and from class-without notifying parents. One piece of kid-targeted PETA literature tells small children: “Your Mommy Kills Animals!” PETA brags that its messages reach over 2 million children every year, including thousands reached by e-mail without the permission of their parents. One PETA vice president told the Fox News Channel’s audience: “Our campaigns are always geared towards children, and they always will be.”

5) PETA has used a related organization, the PETA Foundation, to fund the misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a deceptive animal rights group that promotes itself as an unbiased source of medical and nutritional information. PCRM's president also serves as president of the PETA Foundation.

6) PETA runs campaigns seemingly calculated to offend religious believers. One entire PETA website is devoted to the claim-despite ample evidence to the contrary-that Jesus Christ was a vegetarian. PETA holds protests at houses of worship, even suing one church that tried to protect its members from Sunday-morning harassment. Its billboards taunt Christians with the message that hogs “died for their sins.” PETA insists, contrary to centuries of rabbinical teaching, that the Jewish ritual of kosher slaughter shouldn't be allowed. And its infamous “Holocaust on Your Plate” campaign crassly compares the Jewish victims of Nazi genocide with farm animals.

7) PETA has repeatedly attacked research foundations like the March of Dimes, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, because they support animal-based research that might uncover cures for birth defects and life-threatening diseases. PETA president Ingrid Newkirk has said that “even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we would be against it.”