I can't believe this is real...I can't believe the time these people have on their hands to do this stupid, pointless shit

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Rob ITST wrote:It would be more apparent that it was a joke if PETA didn't go so overboard on so many other things. When someone does a lot of stupid things, it's easy to believe they did something else that's stupid.
I guess it was probably a joke as well, but they also recently claimed that the whales at Sea World were slaves and should be set free....
beltic caldy wrote:A degree of OTT methods are perhaps sometimes required to try shake existing embedded perceptions maybe - the main one being 'we're humans - therefore it's ok to use/kill/eat other lifeforms'.
The way I see it, survival-considerations aside, we all have equal rights to life and the pursuit of happiness (ALL of us, not just human beings) - Humans are the only species on the planet that stomp all over this 'treat others as you would have them treat you' paradigm.
From THAT particular angle, whales, dolphins, creatures 'kept' at a zoo are enslaved - do they stay there with their own consent? Are they free to leave?
PETA using the Anti-Slavery legislation was a way of achieving an end to that and almost more importantly raising/changing consciousness about the whole practice of animal enslavement in general.
Was it over the top, or a little on the extraordinary side, as a method? Perhaps - but if the playing-field were genuinely level, such modes of expression would not be required - the fact is that Big Agriculture and Washington constitute a massive movement/force advocating (to protect and enhance profits) the meat industry, all the while hiding what really goes on, to get an innocent calf, chicken, sheep, pig from it's mother to the dinner plate (polystyrene fast-food box) - in essence, the 'game' is rigged before the start-whistle even goes - and in a rigged game, complaining about a lack of fair-play really doesn't make any sense.
The anti-slavery stuff was covered by the Guardian here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oc ... ti-slavery
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