Caught on Tape: PETA member shoves pie in the face of Canadian official

Sigh.

I was once like YOU. You don’t seem to recognize how alike we are. We both are against cruelty to animals, but we chose to channel out energy in different ways.

I was wrong when I thought PETA actually helped animals. They don’t. They raise awareness, sure, in dumb ways, but they’ll never achieve their goal because they don’t HAVE any goals.

I am an occasional vegan, but for reasons to protect the environment more so than for helping out animals. I picked up a stray cat, Murphy, on one of my work terms. He turned out to be a she and had SIX kittens. I spayed each one, and found homes for 4 of them. When Dumbo, one of her litter, defenestrated himself from the 11th story of the apartment, I footed the 3500 bill for his broken leg. I donate to a shelter that not only cares for animals, but is petitioning to raise the prison term for those convicted of animal abuse.

The money I have spent on those animals has helped them. If I had given that money to PETA, it would go into paying for lawyers for criminals who assault, vandalize, or to celebs du jour for photo shoots, or to make stickers or useless vegetarian handouts (I ordered one, and it was filled with pictures of Pam Anderson, Natalie Portman ect and didn’t have a SINGLE recipe, just a link to their website.) What purpose does this serve besides wasting paper??

I think you have good intentions, but I think you are misguided, and if PETA is your parent organization, they are wasting your energy that could go to much better use, since you seem to be passionate about this cause.

I would seriously look at PETA and their actions, and read up on the criticisms they receive from GOOD sources. If you’re fine with what they do (I am patently against it), then stay with them. But if what you find disturbs you, or if you’ve ever walked into an underfunded shelter, or see what happens to moose because governments in Northern Ontario don’t always spring for proper animal crossings on highways, you’ll feel like I do now, and want to make a REAL difference. I just helped push for a 10m wide wildlife crossing for MTO when they fought it tooth and nail before. It will save countless lives of moose, deer and people too.

Finally, with PETA, they should learn from this:

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the deeper it sinks.

I was able to access this from my work, though flash movies are filtered…

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/news_detail.cfm?ID=4090

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/ads_detail.cfm?ad=35

http://www.animalscam.com/references/peta_rodney1.cfm

I think PETA operates poorly and has zero accountability or transparency. They depend on the majority of supporters to be quasi-interested or “skimmers”, those who skim over headings without doing any fact checking themselves to verify claims.

I once was a (blind) supporter of PETA, until a disturbing assault was committed on a 21-year old woman. I took a long, hard look at what PETA stood for, or says they do.
Examples:
Pamela Anderson’s Dodge Viper (auctioned to benefit PETA) had a “luxurious leather interior”; Jenna Jameson was photographed fishing, slurping oysters, and wearing a leather jacket just weeks after launching an anti-leather campaign for PETA; Morrissey got an official “okay” from PETA after eating at a steakhouse; Dita von Teese has written about her love of furs and foie gras; Steve-O built a career out of abusing small animals on film; the officially “anti-fur” Eva Mendes often wears fur anyway…

Is this meaningful?

Treblinka!!?? You cannot seriously be comparing a Nazi death camp to hunting. I’d like to see you pull that in a room full of Holocaust survivors and their families.

This is the problem with extremists. They cannot discuss things. There are no rebuttals, only spouting of slogans arguments that more often than not are half-truths, misleading, and illogical.

You still haven’t answered what other animals should do regarding food, whether pups are more valued than no-pups, or where you draw the line for animal welfare. At vertebrates? Invertebrates? Insects?

@msalabama

I went to the website of the HSUS. I rad all the comments about baby seals clubbed or shot. I saw many pictures of seals being hunted. I did not, however, see ANY pictures of a white-skin or baby pup. That’s because it is ILLEGAL. And those who are caught face severe fines and imprisonment.

It seems to me you are suggesting that the illegal hunting practices committed by one or more individuals condemns an entire population? By that logic, a person who murders someone in Alabama by gunshot would mean that ALL Alabamans are murderers. Murder is illegal in Alabama. Killing ‘baby seals’ is illegal in Canada. Murders do happen in Alabama on occasion. There are likely a handful of hunters who break the law as well. If the murderer is caught, they are tried and punished. The same goes for those who commit infractions on the hunt as well. This applies to the video (if it is even recent).

If this is your reasoning for not hunting, what do you think of animals hunting? Would you try to stop an Orca from hunting a baby whale because you feel sorry for the pup? Are you suggesting that Natives and Northern peoples who’s culture, religion and survival are intricately intertwined with these animals, stop hunting and eat tofu? In Nunavut?? That isn’t even sustainable if it were possible. Some of these people live over 3000km from anywhere urbanized! They live off the land as they have for generations.

Living in Alabama, you must have no appreciation for the life and geography of the people you chose to judge.

Also, why do you chose to underline the pups being killed rather than the cows or bulls? They also have feelings. Is it because there is an emotional aspect of it?

Humans are no different from animals. The hierarchy is not relevant. That is the argument of the PETA folk.By that token, humans must hunt, as other animals do.
Given a choice, I’d rather eat seals who are living naturally rather than beef raised on a farm or tofu grown in unsustainable greenhouses using excessive irrigation and heat. consumption.

Wow, you’re exactly the kind of person PETA depends on to give them money - completely misinformed and emotionally impulsive.

They don’t club baby seals, and haven’t for many, many decades.

It is and has been illegal for nearly 30 years. The animal rights activits still use the seal pup as a means of tricking people.

Here’s a link with the REAL facts, if you even truly care, which I sincerely doubt…

http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/seal-phoque/myth-eng.htm

As for getting what she deserves? Do you think that they should kill everyone who eats beef in the US? That would be roughly 385 million people - that’s a lot…and by the way VEAL is baby cow, and that’s legal.

Think before you speak. It helps a lot in life ;)