PETA asks town of Fishkill, NY to change name

[Goofball]

Read it here.

Words fail me...

Idiots.

[Don Corleone]

PETA are a bunch of morons. They protested a violin company because they didn't know that catgut wasn't. They constantly are getting boycotts raised against themselves for their boycots.... NOW (National Organization for Women) go apeshit with their "I'd rather wear nothing then wear fur" campaigns and if I remember correctly, the AMA & MADD got all over them for their "Drink beer, not milk" campaign.

EDIT:: Just for the record, does anybody know a group that supports humane treatment of animals that's not a bunch of whackjobs? I support treating animals fairly decently until it comes time to slaughter them, and I do my best to eat free range eggs & meat. Wolves don't pity sheep and go for tofu, but they don't torture them either.

[Big_John]

EDIT:: Just for the record, does anybody know a group that supports humane treatment of animals that's not a bunch of whackjobs? I support treating animals fairly decently until it comes time to slaughter them, and I do my best to eat free range eggs & meat.

i don't know much about either organization, but i don't hear people complain about the ASPCA or the american humane society that much. good job on the free-range meats, good for the animals (until you eat them ) and better tasting to boot!

Wolves don't pity sheep and go for tofu, but they don't torture them either.

just fyi.. while "cruelty" may connote a human intent, certainly animals can exhibit what would probably be considered torturous behavior. wild cats, as an example, often bring live prey back to their cubs. the cubs can "play" with the animals for long periods of time before they are eventually killed (or die of exhaustion). domestic cats attempt to do something similar when they bring live mice/birds/etc home to their owners. it's theorized that this behavior evolved as a way to teach cubs/kittens how to hunt. still, it seems fairly torturous to the victim.

killer whales do something similar with penguins and seals, but i don't think people have come up with a good theory for that behavior other than simply having fun (the killer whale, that is). so it might be even more akin to cruelty.

isn't nature fuzzy?

[Xiahou]

i don't know much about either organization, but i don't hear people complain about the ASPCA or the american humane society that much. good job on the free-range meats, good for the animals (until you eat them ) and better tasting to boot!

Both the ASPCA and American Humane Society are both opposed to hunting- but other than that, they seem at least semi-reasonable. AHS in particular seems to be interested in humane livestock treatment.

note: Don't confuse the American Human society with the Humane Society of the United States, which are apparently jerks.

[BDC]

These animal-rights terrorists (the ones who attack researchers and those associated with animal research) really need to be sorted out, it's horrific that a tiny segment of society can cripple medical research.

Although as far as I'm concerned exactly the same applies to those who get in the way of stem cell research etc.

At least the animal rights activists don't generally kill those they target, which is more than can said for some anti-abortion groups. Same extremists, slightly different excuse to kill and feel powerful.

[Steppe Merc]

I won't even go into this. I just have to say that animal life and the enviornment outways every single time the profits of buisnesses. Every single time.
PETA and groups have no right to destroy property. However, they have every right to stage protests.