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11/27/09
Seeks celebrity members/endorsements, Check!
Has a specific set of guidelines for living, including some very odd ones (not eating meat, are they foreign or something?), Check!
Against antibiotics use. Check!
Members think they are better than everyone else, Check!
Once the new PETA members sign up they will mistakenly receive some Hubbard pamphlets with their welcome package.
There you have it. Next year instead of the Thanksgiving table, the commercial will be shot with a hand held camcorder, in an operating room. A anesthetized Xenu will be laid out on the table.
11/27/09
why are meat eaters such sensitive pussies
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11/26/09
#PETAmembersarebadinbed
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Want to get people to stop eating turkey? Just show them this picture.
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@Friedhamster: @CrayonSmoothie: If you think that turkey looks good, check out the one I made.
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(p.s. PETA may use questionable methods at times, but I don't see anyone else coming close to them in raising awareness - or in trying to fight the meat industry, who wields tremendous power in repeatedly blocking not only commercials but news reports. And yeah, factory farming is horrific for people & the environment as well as animals.)
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PS: I'm pretty lit at this point, so take everything I said with a boulder of salt.
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11/27/09
Hmmm... methinks the hormones pumped into all those factory farmed turkeys made folks a bit testy today! Everyone skipped to the "p.s." and...
Didn'tja see what i did in that first paragraph, with CBS and the Early Show and blurring out the image and...
oh, never mind. if we have enough food choices to be debating whether it should be veggie, pescetarian, carnivore, organic, farm or factory farm-raised, and a roof over our heads w/electricity, internet and computer or reasonable facsimile enough to be typing away to each other like this we are way ahead of the curve, which is something to be thkful for.
happy thksgiving to all.
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@Friedhamster: with respect, i'm quite sure there is no vegetarian on earth as bad as a pile of whining Pratts.
11/27/09
My point is more how few organizations there are that have to some degree successfully, consistently stood up to or raised awareness re the vast monolithic corporate blocks that rule over us, be they meat, oil, agriculture/grains, Big Pharma, chemicals, etc.
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Anyway, yeah. I eat ground up pork stuffed into intestines. I don't think that telling me my turkey has poop in it (what animal hasn't, at one point or another, had poop in it?) is going to dissuade me from eating it if I'm already inclined to do so.
I think Ravi hits it right on the head. PETA is sending out too many messages (reform factory farming, everybody stop eating meat, etc) for any of them to be effective, and it doesn't help that 95% of the time they are absolutely obnoxious. They seem to have taken sanctimoniousness to extremes not because it works, but because they know it's what people already think of them and they're too lazy to move beyond sophomoric, rabblerousing activism.
11/26/09
Yes, two days ago on Gawker.TV: [tv.gawker.com]
That said, I hate PETA enough that I don't mind a second opportunity to talk shit about them.
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How do I know this? There were several within walking distance of my grandparents' apartment.
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11/23/09
Yes, um, the only people who should park their novel writing, You Tube fascinated, IM chatting, Facebook updating arse in a coffee shop all. freaking. day. are old people. Remember old people? You know those members of society who don't work anymore so they have to find creative ways to spend their days. And that might consist of thumping melons at the green grocer, arguing over bank statement passbook theft at the PNC, getting gratuitous bags of bread heels at the bakery for the pigeons/ducks/squirrels, after erratically dinging your car in the parking lot, and yes, sitting for three hours "shootin the shit" with "Larry, 25th infantry division" at the coffee shop over soft scrambled eggs , warm toast, Sanka, and half a grapefruit?
Yeah, they may snore softly, and make a fuss if you sit in "their seat" after they come out the john with a magazine, but you'll never hear excessive typing, an over-loud iPod, or a cell phone conversation about Brigadoon and Briar Patch's "epic break up" in Union Square park yesterday.
And I'd still get a seat at Cosi's so I can eat my yuppie Tandori chicken during the twelve minutes I have for lunch.
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