PETA ad campaign

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Tracked on Mar 24, 2004 8:55:43 PM

This is absolutely outrageous, and shows how the animal rights people have lost all moral bearing whatsoever.

Posted by: Steven at Mar 18, 2004 4:42:45 PM

How can one explain the fact that a Jewish man came up with this ad campaign?

I'm beside myself on this one.

Posted by: Stanley at Mar 18, 2004 5:26:11 PM

How absurd to claim this ad is attempting to incite racial hatred! The most that could be alleged is that it is disproportionate to compare human suffering with animal suffering; PETA's whole point is that it is not disproportionate, as it requires a similar callous mentality from the perpetrators. If you can't feel how disgusting it is to treat animals inhumanely, where is your humanity after all, whatever shock you express at Auschwitz? Life cannot be compartmentalised like that: cruelty is cruelty, inhumanity is inhumanity, whether done to man or animals. PETA's are shock tactics, but certainly not immoral.

Posted by: William Goldman at Mar 19, 2004 12:29:14 PM

PETA's actions are certainly immoral. PETA belives, dont forget, that the action of killing animals and eating them is wrong. But the fact is, those chickens are sentanced to die, and thats NOT wrong. chickens are bred to be food for us Humans at the top of the chain. In Auschwitz, when humans, sentiant thinking intelliant beings were being farmed for slaughter by other humans, that was immoral. In the pulty industry, where hens are bred, fed, and killed to be eaten, thats not immoral. Except to PETA, who makes no distinction between human and animal life. Now, that's their right, but its not their right to demand that the world agree with them, and its insulting to compare the atrocicites committed upon Men by fellow Men to the farming of animals by men.
Which is not to say i approve of maltreatment o the chickens; even thugh they are food, they're living things, up until they're killed, anyway, and should not be living their short lives in suffering. But it's still insulting to say that all meat-eating humanity are Nazis subjecting the animals to our judgemental punishment. Its not just insulting to Jews, the victims of the brutality, its insulting to Men, for we are all being called Nazis by PETA when we order that steak.

Posted by: Tzvi Cohen at Mar 19, 2004 4:50:43 PM

Mr. Goldman:

If you can't feel how disgusting it is to treat animals inhumanely,

I think you've answered your own question. We treat animals inhumanely because they're NOT HUMAN. We treat animals like, well, animals.

Posted by: David Nieporent at Mar 21, 2004 4:17:57 AM

The one thing Mr. Goldman gets right is that it is silly to claim that PETA's ad is attempting to incite racial hatred. Beyond that, his posting is predicated on the notion that humans are ethically obligated to treat animals as they do humans. Can he do more than simply assert this to those of us who don't share that premise?

Posted by: Chuck Bearden at Mar 31, 2004 7:40:27 AM

This makes total sense.

The way humans enforce themselves onto animals is identical to the way the nazi's enforced themselves onto jews.

Just as millions of Europeans ignored the concentration camps, allowing them to operate because they themselves were not being victimised, millions of people today turn away from the horrors of factory farming. Chickens have their beaks seared off, cows are skinned and dismembered while still alive and pigs have their testicles yanked out, all without any painkillers. Like victims of the Holocaust, they are forced to endure a frightening journey on tightly packed transport vehicles through all weather extremes, and then they are herded to their inhumane deaths.

There was a time when people ignored this, and now they think the holocaust was a dreadful thing. Hopefully, one day, humankind will look back on the treatment of animals in abbatoirs as a dreadful thing.

It is hypocritical to claim that the holocaust is dreadful yet agree with the same opression that goes on behind closed doors in this country, just to animals not humans. "quality of mercy is not - must not be - limited and that people cannot talk about peace with their mouths full of the victims of violence" - Issac Singer

If you are revolted at the idea of comparing humans to animals it is simply because you have not accepted the role you hold in thousands of animals fates and the fact you pay for it to happen everytime you sit down to eat.

In decades to come do you want to say you condoned the opression of animals in the 'animal's holocaust'? Or do you want to say you stood up against opression even though the idea was unpopular, as you realised a world without violence against those different to us began at the breakfast table?

I am also angry at the article, as you never stated WHY the display makes the comparison it does just seemed to think it absurd it did. Also, the display is not comparing only chicken slaughter but all animal cruelty.

Also, Cohen - "In Auschwitz, when humans, sentiant thinking intelliant beings were being farmed for slaughter by other humans, that was immoral. In the pulty industry, where hens are bred, fed, and killed to be eaten, thats not immoral" ...I gather by this comment you are unaware that pigs and cows and sentiant intelligent beings? An adult pig sent to slaughter is as clever as a three year old child. Are you condoning the murder of toddlers for meat as they are not as sentient and clever as adults??

If you are still offended, may i suggest you visit http://www.masskilling.co.uk/analogy.asp , an official site, who plainly state why they made the analogy they did. Upon reading both sides of the story, readers are unlikely to jump to conclusions that peta are immoral, and realise that the treating of animals as purley 'pieces of meat' is the immoral act.

Posted by: Lindsay Lovell at May 16, 2004 10:02:17 PM