The PETA Thread

[Bowwowmeow]

PETA Targets Beyonce at Dinner

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Beyonce Knowles arrives to a preview of her new film "Dreamgirls" in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 19, 2006. PETA recently peppered her with questions about her fur use. JEFF CHRISTENSEN

From Associated Press
June 16, 2006 5:35 PM EDT
NEW YORK - Beyonce Knowles had several surprise guests at a recent dinner, where members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals peppered the pop star with questions about her fur use.
An eBay auction offered fans a chance to dine with Knowles, and PETA secretly placed the winning bid. At the dinner Wednesday at the chic Nobu 57 restaurant, members of the animal rights group confronted Knowles about wearing fur coats and using fur in her clothing line, House of Dereon.
A video of the encounter, posted on http://www.tmz.com, shows a stunned Knowles, unresponsive to the allegations and appealing to others in her group to react. The PETA guests, whose tone was conversational but persistent, are eventually kicked out of the restaurant.
A spokesman for the singer told The Associated Press on Friday that Knowles, 24, had no comment on the incident.
PETA, known for its untraditional methods of raising awareness about animal rights, said it had previously attempted to reach Knowles through faxes, letters and rallies outside her concerts.
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On the Net:
http://www.peta-online.org
http://www.beyonceonline.com/

Hmph. Dreamgirl to some, nightmare to others. :medusa: :thumbsdown:

[Bowwowmeow]

PETA Growls at Dictionary


HEIDI SINGER
From NY Post
June 24, 2006 5:25 AM EDT
Activists want to change the official dictionary definition of "circus" - to "animal cruelty."
PETA members are petitioning the publishers of the Webster's Dictionary to alter the definition of circus to reflect what PETA says are the miserable lives of elephants, lions and other wild animals.
"As more people become aware of the cruelty and violence that goes on behind the scenes [at circuses], the definition needs to be updated," said PETA campaigner Matt Rice.
But "we don't base our work on petitions to the dictionary," said Merriam Webster spokesman Arthur Bicknell. "We're not a political organization whatsoever. Our job is to reflect the English language as it is actually being used."

[Rainbow]

Yep that would be fantastic - kids checking the spelling of circus and being confronted with two meanings (I'd hope)...

orig. ~ abusive to animals, animals are caged and trucked from city to city, only being released when it is time to 'perform' unnaturally for a paying audience of selfish humans. Performances can include lions jumping through rings of fire, elephants walking on only two legs.

modern ~ adult humans entaining humans, using skills of balance and daring, but most importantly the humans want to be involved in the circus.

[Rainbow]

Meanwhile one of PETA's latest targets is from what I've read and seen/heard a death row center for turkeys named BUTTERBALL (http://www.goveg.com/feat/butterball/butterball.asp) !

:soap: This is the intro to the above PETA page...

Butterball workers were documented punching and stomping on live turkeys, slamming them against walls, and worse during an undercover investigation at a Butterball slaughterhouse in Ozark, Arkansas.

One Butterball employee stomped on a bird's head until her skull exploded, another swung a turkey against a metal handrail so hard that her spine popped out, and another was seen inserting his finger into a turkey's cloaca (vagina).

One worker told an investigator: "If you jump on their stomachs right, they'll pop ... or their insides will come out of their [rectums]," and other Butterball workers frequently bragged about kicking and tormenting birds. Read more in the investigators' log notes.

PETA's investigators discovered these horrors between April and July, 2006, during an undercover investigation at a Butterball plant that slaughters approximately 50,000 birds each day.

Save the turkeys from humans.

[Gliondrach]

The people who work in slaughterhouses and enjoy working there have to be unbalanced to start with. And then the constant, brutalising work will unhinge them even more. They will reach a point where inflicting pain will seem normal to them and could even become a source of amusement. This gets reinforced every time they do it. I wouldn't dispute it if anyone said that these people develop a need for that type of work because it enables them to release much of the tension and stress that builds up inside them. Instead of punching a punchbag or playing a game of tennis, they can take their frustrations out on their animal victims.

[Rainbow]

True, which makes me wonder Gliondrach what work do you do?
As you've been holding that teddy hostage a long time now and I believe she/he is starting to get tummy ache.

[Gliondrach]

Fuzzy is a fierce cave bear. No one could hold him hostage. That picture was taken when we were practising unarmed combat - just before he sent me spinning through the air. I am still limping.

[Bowwowmeow]

PETA Urges Burberry to Stop Using Fur

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Animal rights activists in caveman costume perform in protest outside a Burberry boutique in downtown Hong Kong over the brand's use of fur, Tuesday, Jan. LO SAI HUNG

By DIKKY SINN (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
January 16, 2007 9:49 AM EST
HONG KONG - Animal rights activists dressed as cave people gathered outside a Burberry boutique Tuesday in downtown Hong Kong, protesting the company's use of fur.
Holding a banner that said, "Burberry: Out of the Stone Ages," the protesters - wearing fake brown furry vests and leggings - urged the British brand to stop using fur. They also wielded thick plastic clubs as they made wild animal sounds.
"We are here to let people see that fur belongs to the Stone Ages, and at the present age, you do not need to wear fur. It's incompassionate," said Rochelle Regodon, a campaign manager with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
The group also stormed the runway at a fashion show in Hong Kong on Monday night, chanting anti-fur messages before they were taken away by security guards.
PETA demonstrated at an outlet owned by Burberry Group PLC in London last year, splashing red paint and chaining themselves to the front door of the shop.
Fashion labels such as J. Crew Group Inc., Stella McCartney and Ralph Lauren have stopped selling fur after PETA launched a boycott campaign, Regodon said.
"There's nothing fashionable about wearing the fur of the animals who have been born and bred and slaughtered just for their skin. There are fake fur and many other artificial materials that also wrap people warm," she said.
Burberry's office in Hong Kong didn't immediately respond to PETA's latest protest.
After the London demonstration, the company said that it would continue using fur when the material is important to the design and aesthetics of a product.

[Gliondrach]

For a while the message seemed to be getting through but now fur wearing is on the increase. Some people just don't care.

[IndyVegan]

Beyonce is so ugly IMO.

[Bowwowmeow]

Yeah, some people destroy their potential to be beautiful by the ugly things they do in life.

[IndyVegan]

Yeah, some people destroy their potential to be beautiful by the ugly things they do in life.

Yeah, that, too. I just don't see why so many people say she is physically pretty. She's gross to me.

[Fauxmage]

I know its a bit controversial, but its news, so...
PETA Workers Cleared of Animal Cruelty


By SAMUEL SPIES (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
February 03, 2007 12:16 AM EST
WINTON, N.C. - A jury cleared two animal rights workers of animal cruelty charges Friday for euthanizing cats and dogs they took from shelters, but both were convicted of littering for dumping the carcasses in a trash bin.
Adria Hinkle and Andrew Cook, two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, were cleared of eight misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty. Hinkle also was found not guilty on three felony counts of obtaining property by false pretenses.
Both received a 10-day suspended jail sentence and a year of supervised probation. Their van will be confiscated by police and each was ordered to pay $4,000 in fines and restitution. They will also each have to serve 50 hours of community service.
As she left the courtroom after the two-week trial, Hinkle said she was relieved. "Justice was served," she said.
"The important thing is the jury recognized they were never guilty of cruelty," PETA spokeswoman Kathy Guillermo said. "We're relieved, we're happy."
"It's a disgrace," said Andrea Press, a member of Responsible Dog Owners of Eastern States. "PETA preaches to everybody not to hurt and kill animals. And they just proved it's OK for them to do it. They're hypocrites."
The animals were picked up from several shelters in northeast North Carolina. The pair testified that they euthanized the animals in the back of their van to relieve the animals' suffering.
They said they disposed of the bodies in a garbage bin rather than drive them back to PETA offices in Virginia, because the stench from the carcasses was overwhelming.
Hinkle, 28, of Norfolk, Va., and Cook, 26, of Virginia Beach were arrested in June 2005 after police said they saw them dump several bags of dead animals into a trash bin behind a grocery store. Police said they found more dead animals in the pair's van.

[Gliondrach]

Were the cats and dogs very sick or injured, does anyone know?

[Keykeypie]

Were the cats and dogs very sick or injured, does anyone know?

Martin,
I have a close friend who went down to NC in person to see what this was all about in 2005 when this took place. PETA was working with shelters
in the area who were killing animals in horrible ways.... This is a place where un-wanted cats & dogs are dumped by people through shoots into fenced in lots.....the ones not killed by each other are killed by shooting, hanging, stuffed into rigged up carbon monoxide boxes

She told me, Ginger, no matter how bad you think it is, it's worse. And this
from someone who went down to Mississippi after Katrina to do rescues.

So anyway, PETA sent people to the area to persuade the shelters to allow them to euthanize the animals humanely & that's what they were doing.

The CCF who's supported by the meat, drug & many other animal exploiting industries sent some people down there so they could write an anti-PETA story saying "PETA KILLS ANIMALS" Because in fact....that's absolutely
true and I promise you it's because the only other option they have would be to turn their back on these kind of horrible situations.

What else could PETA do? Build a huge place where these animals would
have to live out their lives as prisoners in cages? And even that would be full
in a matter of a few months.


Well.....as it happened, the CCF people happened to see these two PETA workers putting bodies in a dumpster and they got hold of every media source
they could and made a huge deal out of it. They even had a gigantic lighted sign in Times Square saying PETA KILLS ANIMALS.....so you see, their anti-PETA supporters were really getting their money's worth.

I personally feel that the best I can do for an animal is to treat him or her the way I myself would want to be treated. And I rather be dead then have
to live my life, slowly going insane, confined to a cage.

Is it against my beliefs to kill an animal? Yes....but my beliefs fly out the window when the choice is between death & torture.....that's why I support
PETA 100% ......believe me, they know what's what & they are 100% for
the best interests of animals......and incidentally, Ingrid Newkirk makes less
then I do....and I'm not rich.

[Gliondrach]

I responded to some online discussion once and someone replied that PETA kill animals. I wrote to them to ask if that was true. They said that they did but only those who were very sick or who they couldn't find homes for. I posted their e-mail to me in my reply.

I thought it would be something like that in this case. The jury didn't think they had committed acts of cruelty. The sentences must have been for dumping the bodies in such a way to as risk public health.

What's the CCF?

[Keykeypie]

What's the CCF?

HA! You just made my day! So they're not so famous after all!

But go HERE. (http://www.consumerdeception.com/)...if you want to read about those low-life, money hungry creep, scum of the earth slime balls.:blecch:

[Gliondrach]

No, never heard of the scum. But I've come across other 'defenders' of freedom and business before. The drug-pushing industries are infested with them.

From the tone of your answer I think I detect some degree of disapproval of this organisation.

[Oracl]

PETA Workers Cleared of Animal Cruelty
I'm so glad PETA has been cleared of this charge. :agree: I always found it hard to believe. :no:

[KRITER]

I beleev they was still charged sumkinda way for puting the bodys in the dumpster.Im not sure that was a PETA disission.I sounded like to me it was an indivisual disission.

[KRITER]

Two people who use to work for Ringling Brothers talking about Ringling Brothers abusing elephants.They joined up with PETA aganst Ringling yesterday in Norfolk Virginia.

[Gliondrach]

I hope they managed to take some photographs as evidence.

[KRITER]

PETAs got video of the elephants geting hurt and crying.And pictures of the wounds.Corse agan Ringling is saying the video and pictures are of other circuses.But the 2 whisl bloers didnt sho no pictures.One of them worked for them 2 years.

[Charmagne]

There should be mandated veternarian inspections by an unbiased source of course at least two yearly. I would never think of looking for wounds inside the ears. This is terrible! But I'm not surprised by the cruelty of vile humans. These injuries should be easy to spot by a veternarian now that it has been made public.

Of course there should be no circuses at all. I have to say that we used to get the circus every year but I cannot remember the last time one came through. I hope that means their monetary gain have greatly decreased. Poor animals!:mad:

[Gliondrach]

There are quite a few human-only circuses. These other ones are the remnants of a bygone age.

[thevegantwins]

February 21, 2007
PETA Criticizes Egg Farm at South Carolina Monastery
By BRENDA GOODMAN
ATLANTA, Feb. 20 — An egg farm operated by Trappist monks at a monastery in South Carolina is an “ugly stain” on an otherwise blessed community, an animal rights group said Tuesday as it released the results of an undercover investigation into egg production practices there.

“This hurts so much,” said the Right Rev. Stanislaus Gumula, the abbot of Mepkin Abbey, after he learned about the accusations made against his community, in Moncks Corner, S.C. “They’re happy chickens. They’re being treated nicely.”
A video produced by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and posted on its Web site shows rows of chickens, three or four to a cage.

Several monks, who were videotaped without their knowledge, are shown discussing their practices, including “forced molting,” which puts chickens under stress to cause them to lay more eggs. The practice was banned last year by United Egg Producers, the country’s largest trade group for commercial egg producers.

“We’re going to have to investigate, because if this is true, they aren’t following the requirements of our certification program,” said Diane E. Storey, a spokeswoman for the egg producers group. Father Gumula, who became the abbot a few months ago, called the accusations “unfactual” and said the chickens had last been molted in 2006, during a grace period the trade group allowed to comply with new regulations.

“It’s like a fast,” one of the monks explains on camera. “Like a long fast when the chickens stop laying eggs for a while because they’re not eating and they cycle them back in.”

Ms. Storey said that Mepkin Abbey was certified under her group’s animal welfare program, and that it was last inspected by the Department of Agriculture in October 2006.

Father Gumula said he would switch to a new molting technique in 2007 that did not require complete removal of food.

He also took issue with the film’s criticism of the abbey for a common practice called debeaking, in which a hot blade is used to slice the tip of the beak off a chick before it is 10 days old. He said the abbey got its hens when they were 18 weeks old, long after their beaks had been trimmed by the supplier.

PETA says that the tip of a chicken’s beak is incredibly sensitive and that birds in the wild use it to peck the ground more than 15,000 times day as they forage for food.

Animal welfare experts say beak trimming prevents chickens from tearing one other to pieces.

“I guess, in this case, beak trimming is the best of two devils,” said Inma Estevez, an associate professor in the department of animal and avian science at the University of Maryland. “I’ve seen the alternative, and, believe me, it’s much worse.”

Father Gumula said the monks raised 21,000 birds in three barns, not 38,000 as PETA asserted.

And he said he kept the birds caged because it kept them cleaner and healthier. “When they are on the floor, they are subjected to all sorts of parasites and bacteria that are around,” Father Gumula said. “They walk in their own manure. They walk in their troughs.”

He said the monks gathered 17,000 eggs daily and had been known to sing to the birds.

Animal rights advocates said that although those methods might seem quaint, the chickens were suffering.

“To put it bluntly, this is animal abuse,” said Paul Shapiro, director of the Factory Farming Campaign at the Humane Society of America, who said he had received complaints about the abbey. “People are being misled to believe these birds are receiving a higher level of care than they actually are.”

Can we put these monks, just 3 or 4 of them, in a cage for awhile, deprive them of light and food as means of a spiritual fast :rolleyes: then let them tell us how happy they are?

[Fauxmage]

“I guess, in this case, beak trimming is the best of two devils,” said Inma Estevez, an associate professor in the department of animal and avian science at the University of Maryland. “I’ve seen the alternative, and, believe me, it’s much worse.”
Let's put Inma Estevez in there with them. :mad:

Of course there are only two alternatives, because making sure the market is flooded with eggs for people to clog the artieries with can't be compromised. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[Charmagne]

I'm sure there will be changes made now that PETA has brought it public - you have to give them credit for bringing it to light.

But it doesn't change the fact that these chickens, as all chickens do, lead miserable disgusting lives to produce unnatural food for stupid humans. :mad:

[Oracl]

But it doesn't change the fact that these chickens, as all chickens do, lead miserable disgusting lives to produce unnatural food for stupid humans. :mad:
So true, Charmagne. :(

[Bowwowmeow]

PETA pillories Vogue for perched peacocks

From United Press International
May 11, 2007 5:23 PM EDT

NEW YORK, May 11, 2007 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Animal rights activists allege a handler used small animals to scare peacocks onto perches for a Vogue magazine party at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals charged that party organizers used rabbits to frighten four peacocks onto eight-foot perches where they served as party decorations, the New York Post reported Friday.

"It sounds like these birds were intimidated, and we're going to look into whether any laws were broken," said Michael McGraw of PETA.

Bird handler Norman Johnson denied rabbits were used but said one guinea pig in a carrier was placed in the area to encourage the birds to fan their tail feathers.

"They acted a bit dazed and confused for the first hour. I expected that," Johnson said. "And then one of the organizer's designers asked if I would put (one bird) on a perch. I did that, and after a while, the others followed."

He said he keeps the birds from mating prior to events and uses mirrors to encourage them to display their plumage.

Vogue and the museum also denied doing anything to scare the birds or otherwise treat them cruelly.
URL: www.upi.com (http://www.upi.com)

This is why I don't jump up and down with joy when I read those articles about the fashion industry and vegan chic. Most designers are completely corrupted by shallow, trendy thought patterns, and seem so obsessed with making animals into accessories, both dead and live ones, that its not worth supporting even the vegan ones. I will support most non-vegan businesses who develop vegan products, but not the designer fashion industry. I can live without paying $500.00 for a pair of non-leather shoes, even if they do disapprove of using live peacocks as decorations. :rolleyes: