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By: Miri

Miri — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:48:49 +0000

It should be:

SHUT UP MEAT EATER

on the shirt! People don’t want to know that from slaugthering animals to slaugthering humans it isn’t a far way! Slaughterhouses, talking about big industrial ones, first appeared in WWI when Hitler put thousands of jews in his slaugtherhouses.
People should stop spreading rumours about organizations which want to help those who can’t help themselves. Just because we invented the knife doesn’t mean we are allowed to kill everything we get in our fingers.

You are mad about what happened in the bus????

Ever went in a slaugtherhouse? Ever seen abused Greyhounds? Ever seen horse/cow/pig transports? Ever thought about where your milk comes from and that we are the only species which drinks the mothermilk of another species????

SHUT UP MEAT EATER

you don’t have the right to complain about ANY crime like that comitted by a human, cause when you eat meat, you commit the same crime every day!

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:52:40 +0000

I don’t have a problem with the advert at all. It was factual, and a genuine attempt at making people think for a moment how misplaced their sympathy is when they exclusively volunteer their sympathy to human beings, ignoring completely the pain, stress, fear and bloodshed that they themselves are responsible for, every time they eat a hot dog they didn’t enjoy anyway.

The advert challenges society’s hypocrisy, and i respect PETA for being brave enough to do that.

The only thing i don’t like about the ad is that most people are not as enlightened on these issues as vegans and anti-speciesists, so it was certain to offend people.

I think the advert itself, though, is sound.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:01:42 +0000

I’ve from Winnipeg and think the ad is excellent.

VH1 is so not animal friendly.They are so pathetic and heartless.

PETA has a heart.
People find it so horrific that this guy killed another guy and ate some of his flesh but people think it’s ok to do that to billions of animals. How smart and nice people are.

By: MWM

MWM — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:04:00 +0000

I think what most people are missing is that PeTA’s intent here was to run the ad in a newspaper from the same area where the tragedy occurred – it crossed the line, and was with full awareness that it would add to the suffering of that family. PeTA has had my support in the past – but this was a callous act that purposely tried to target a family and community in mourning – I will absolutely no longer support this organisation.

By: Cid Martins

Cid Martins — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:57:34 +0000

“but since when did a cow or pig or any farm yard animal…say…cure a disease, or compose a symphony, or even write their own name”…well let me think about this! The person who committed that murder could write his name, right? And he is human, correct? So is his life worth more than a farm animal’s life? Or any other animal’s? Or because he is a murderer, maybe his life isn’t worth anything at all? You know what? I am sick and tired of arrogant humans who think they know it all! It is easy to criticise others, but it’s damn hard to do something to change what is wrong! Animals do compose symphonies, in their own way (whales… does that ring a bell?). And humans cure diseases because they have been testing on animals for decades…try and error…aren’t we so intelligent? And where do all the active substances drugs are composed of come from? Exactly…nature my dear ‘wallaby’! So next time you or any other person say human life is more valuable than the life of animals, do us all a favour… think first and be informed before making comments! And to finish, how intelligent do you consider a species that destroys its own territory, completely depletes the resources it needs to survive and whose members kill each other out of pure cruelty? Oh, let me see… don’t we humans do that all of the time? Perhaps we are not that intelligent, or evolved for that matter! Maybe animals aren’t that inferior to us! It’s time we open our eyes and realize we are just one more species on this planet! That’s all…It’s time to evolve…!

By: SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION

SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:13:55 +0000

i ask myself why animal-hating people like melissa are spending their time on this eco-website! or are ecological problems and animalrights problems a different pair of shoes? and who told you that a pig’s life is less worth than a human’s? just because we are humans or what?

By: wallaby

wallaby — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:29:26 +0000

Alright, I’m completely unbiased one way or another usually towards Peta, I respect their right to not want animals slaughtered in the way that they do, but to immediately exploit the random and savage murder of a sleeping man on a bus is stretching things a little too far for my taste. Have they lost all creativity that they just go through the newspaper going “that’s like animal slaughter! Let’s make people aware!” Honestly, I see this nothing more as an advertising ploy really, which makes me sick. The government uses the death of American’s in Iraq as a way to get people to continue their support of the war, which is only a hair’s length away from what Peta just did in comparing a man’s brutal murder on a bus to the slaughter of bovine and pigs and sheep and so on. Thus, when I connect this in my mind, I hear Peta saying that a human life is equal in value to that of a cow? Okay, i don’t mind people not wanting to eat animals for ethical reasons and I’m not a downer on veganism or vegetarianism, but since when did a cow or pig or any farm yard animal…say…cure a disease, or compose a symphony, or even write their own name. To degrade human achievement (although there is a great deal of bad, don’t get me wrong) to that of an animal, makes me confused. Yes, I’m a savage, brutal cur for eating animal flesh, fine, label me as you will, but cannibalism isn’t the same thing as eating a chicken, there’s really nothing that could convince me otherwise.

By: Cid Martins

Cid Martins — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:49:46 +0000

Whether you like it or not, horrible events like the ‘Greyhound bus’ (which I hadn’t even heard of in my country) only prove humans are not the most superior and evolved species on this planet… For people who really want to open their eyes to the truth about the way animals are truly treated worldwide, please watch (all parts): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxKnys7Ryw
You can disagree with the actions of PETA and other organizations, but at least they are out there doing something, which is more than I can say for the rest of us…! A famous french writer (Victor Hugo) once said something like this: “You can see the level of evolution of a people by the way it treats its animals”. Well, it pretty much says everything about the human species… I sometimes wonder what would happen if an alien species would come (if they haven’t already) to our planet! Can you imagine what they would think of us? That we are nothing but a barbaric species…! And would they be wrong? I don’t think so! We show no respect for ourselves, for animals, for Nature, or for that matter, for the planet we live in… We kill, torture, destroy, every day, every second…In my perspective those are not the actions of an evolved species…

By: Kristin

Kristin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:32:34 +0000

I agree with most posts – it was entirely tasteless on Peta’s behalf.

I think it’s too bad, because they do great awareness work, but stunts like this annoy everyone – vegan and non-vegan alike.