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Suja wrote: Are they for real? Clearly the answer is that no, they are not. They've recently been assailed by feminists for sexist advertisements and Newkirk has responded that 1) they can't be sexist because she's a woman (and how Republican is that argument?), and 2) they're trying to attract attention and nothing attracts attention like nekkid women so the advertisements are therefore okay. Then there was that Ben and Jerry's stunt. Over the past few years this kind of crap has cost them a lot of supporters, and as they continue to bleed support they get further and further out there in order to attract attention, which costs them more support, repeat ad nauseum. PETA has always been pretty marginal (I've never understood why mainstream people who care about animals made such a fuss over PETA, which has very little agency in the real world) and they're increasingly completely irrelevant. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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"Suja" wrote in news:6med7uFgbpmtU1
@mid.individual.net: Are they for real? They kill a *lot* of animals, which seems pretty real to me. Out of 8362 domestic animals that went through their Norfolk, Virginia shelter last year, 17 were adopted out and 1815 killed. Their wildlife numbers are just as horrible. The numbers for 2006 were even worse, so maybe things are improving in PeTAland? And tangentially, their "reclaimed by owner" stats are really, really high, compared to other shelters. In 2007, 6466 out of a total of 8362 animals were reclaimed. If you go to the Virginia Animal Reporting website and search through city/county shelters and pounds, their reclaimed numbers seem to be *much* lower than PeTA's. Their publicity crap, though? Every time they pull this sort of stupid bullshit, they alienate more of their supporters. Or at least I hope so. -- Shelly http://www.cat-sidh.net (the Mother Ship) http://esther.cat-sidh.net (Letters to Esther) |
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Shelly said in part...
Every time they pull this sort of stupid bullshit, they alienate more of their supporters.......... ________________________ Yes, they are making it increasingly difficult to be a supporter. The campaign that insisted Ben and Jerry's should use human breast milk instead of cow's milk just about did it for me. Be Free.....Judy |
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Judith Althouse wrote: Yes, they are making it increasingly difficult to be a supporter. The campaign that insisted Ben and Jerry's should use human breast milk instead of cow's milk just about did it for me. They've since claimed it was satirical, to make a point about the treatment of dairy cows. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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Rocky wrote: (Melinda Shore) said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior: They've since claimed it was satirical, to make a point about the treatment of dairy cows. Plan B. I tend to think that it was Plan A and that they're some combination of incompetent, and tone deaf, and juvenile. I think it's pretty much of a piece with Newkirk claiming that their use of women's bodies to sell their agenda can't be sexist because she's a woman, herself. As nearly as I can tell it's just one big clown show. I spent the week in San Jose, got back very late last night, and picked up the dogs this afternoon. At the kennel they said that they'd just been about to let my dogs out to run and asked if I wanted to let them loose before taking them home. I said "sure." When Emmett saw me he started jumping up and down and catching major air, and the rest of it was like all those times in other people's dog yards, having their dogs ricochet off me during their "play" (when I came home from picking up Image lo, those many years ago, I found paw prints on my shoulder blades when I got home). They don't do that at home. It's so good having them back. [While I was gone Slick apparently explained to Jack how to resist going into the dog box, so now they're both loaded heinie-first.] -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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Judith Althouse wrote:
Yes, they are making it increasingly difficult to be a supporter. The campaign that insisted Ben and Jerry's should use human breast milk instead of cow's milk just about did it for me. Oh boy. I don't want to sound mean, but I can't think of any way of responding to you that won't sound mean. And I think it's important to say this out in the open. PETA is making it "increasingly difficult to be a supporter"??? Good lord, what would it take to educate you about them at this point? A brick over the head? PETA is evil, and I mean TRULY evil. It takes barely any reading between the lines to see that. And in case you're wondering, it's the organization's *leadership* that I'm calling evil, not the hapless folks like you that they've conned into donating money. The fact that they take advantage of people like you is, IMHO, one of the vilest things that they do (and considering some of the other things they've done, that's saying quite a lot). Dianne |
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