When will "animal rights activists" get one life?

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TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) -- Animal rights activists are disgusted by a new candy from Kraft Foods Inc. that's shaped like critters run over by cars -- complete with tire treads.

The fruity-flavored Trolli Road Kill Gummi Candy -- in shapes of partly flattened snakes, chickens and squirrels -- fosters cruelty toward animals, according to the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

"It sends the wrong message to children, that it's OK to harm animals. And that's the wrong message, especially from a so-called wholesome corporation like Kraft," said society spokesman Matthew Stanton.

The society is considering petition drives, boycotts and letter-writing campaigns to get the candy pulled from the market, Stanton said.

After receiving a complaint from the NJSPCA Wednesday, Kraft officials pulled an animated advertisement from Trolli's Web site that featured car headlights and animals.

No other decisions on changes have been made, said Kraft spokesman Larry Baumann.

"If you look across the Gummi category we certainly have many products that are offbeat, and that's what we were doing in this case," Baumann said. "We didn't mean to offend anyone."

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm waiting for the serial killer victim gummi candies.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link

ihttp://www.happybeagle.com/shelbysblog/images/hh/gummi-eyes.jpg

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Dead president gummis would be even better.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I liked it when they had those blue sharks marketed as "Gummi Lawyers".

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Brutal Dictator Gummis!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Gummi Vegans!

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Gummi Fox News Reporters!

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link

gummi eyeballs=waaaaay grosser than gummi roadkill

though really gummi anything that isn't a bear is fucked up beyond belief.

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Gummi Dursts!

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Tsk tsk, now how long before our favorite animal rights activist takes you to task for being hypocritical Manics fans, I ask you...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

It is pretty much a useless idea for a candy. Can't they figure out a different way to get mommy and daddy to dispose of their money?

WE NEED MORE OFFBEAT CANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Gummi Emma Bunton!

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Then we need a Gummi Geri too! Posh would be too tough and leathery though, maybe she could be a fruit rollup.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Fish and Wildlife killed a tiger Wednesday in Moorpark. That was sort of sad. Sorry, off topic.

― youn, Friday, 25 February 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Gummi Lads' Mags!

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Gummi Calums!

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Tit, meet tat.

When will people who support Kraft over "animal rights activists" get one life?

I'm nowhere close to being an animal-righter, but Kraft is way far from being "wholesome".

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I agree w/the sentiments of the thread title, but I have to wonder what kind of fucktard would sit down at a product design meeting and say "hey guys, I have this great idea, candies in the shape of squashed animals!!" I mean WTF?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

... is just seems kind of ostentatiously in some kind of way that there are people who are paid handsomely to think up such WORTHLESS concepts!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I remember there used to be a candy called skull crushers, which were white chocolate skulls filled with raspberry liquid. Those were cooler and gorier than plain old roadkill.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Shouldn't the animal rights activists be happy that children are eating a safe, vegetarian form of roadkill instead of the actual animals?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link

ostentatiously STUPID in some way. I wish I could type s.th. in w/o so many mistakes, argh.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link

gummi animal-rights-activist-roadkill!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I think gummi's use marrow = not vegetarian.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Animal crackers encourage kids to eat animals right out of their cages. Where's your PETA now?

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Gummi candy isn't vegetarian. Gelatin = beef bones
As a kid, the idea of "roadkill" was a constant supply of giggles/humor.
KIDS LOVE GROSS STUFF

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Then gummi dursts is definitely the way to go.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Gummi incurable diseases!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

we want to gross them out not make them vomit all over themselves copiously!

uh xpost

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Gummi Razor Blades!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Gummi candy isn't vegetarian. Gelatin = beef bones

Yeah, I know, it's the one lapse I allow myself as a vegetarian.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Gummi Poisonous Insects!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Gummi Concentration Camp!

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Die Tieraktivisten sind ziemlich populaer wegen Supermodellen wie ich!

Guck mal! Has P.E.T.A. gone too far this time? Brainwashing poor Heidi Klum?

― Heidi_Klum, Friday, 25 February 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I got drunk in Port Costa last month and seriously contemplated the liberation of some lobsters, right in front of a bunch of surly redneck regulars. Cooler heads prevailed and dissuaded me... I was going to run straight to the bay and set them free!

― andy --, Friday, 25 February 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Carrots scream when you pull them out of the ground, etc

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link

"...there are people who are paid handsomely to think up such WORTHLESS concepts!! "

tis the real tragedy here. they rake it in and meanwhile, i, who am obviously much much cooler and better all-around, sit all day here at the paper and talk to people on the phone who call to ask if the horoscopes are real or made up. where's the justice, PETA?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

if it's useless and not sports, it's art.

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Gummi bears:

ihttp://bonmot.ca/~daniel/pics/dnm_020602_gummi.jpg

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Kenan, I hate you.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

OMGWTF R U TRYING TO GET ME FIRED KENAN U FAGTOG?!?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link

There are visions on this thread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link

It sends the wrong message to children, that it's OK to harm animals.

No! It sends the message that you should clean up after yourself. If you it a cat, don't just leave it lying there, ffs. Take it home.

(In Tennessee a few years ago, there was a big debate over a Roadkill Bill making it legal to eat what you run over. It passed.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

This thread makes me want a big bag of gummis.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

They have gummi green army men, that's more disturbing somehow.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Gummi Detainees

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

with Gummi Electrodes connected to their Gummi Genitalia

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Gummi Negroponte

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Hang on, we eat jelly (gummi) BABIES all the time, why isnt anyone saying thats fucked up? WE EAT BABIES FFS

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 26 February 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, but they don't make gummi babies with "tire treads." What they're protesting is the idea that roadkill is funny.

Personally I'm always embarrassed when these organizations set themselves up to be ridiculed. (Maybe they figure any publicity for their cause is good publicity?)

But I get their point. Roadkill is a sad fact of life, but acknowledging this and showing a modicum of respect for the animals that get run over is made out to be such a ridiculous, needlessly sentimental thing to do.

In general,life has lots of large and small tragedies that people seem intent on turning into fodder for jokes.

― Mila, Saturday, 26 February 2005 02:33 (nineteen years ago) link

gummi lovin', had me a blast
gummi lovin', happened so faaaast

― latebloomer: The Heavy Metal Velveeta Faction (latebloomer), Saturday, 26 February 2005 02:54 (nineteen years ago) link

This is so cock on it's not true

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Saturday, 26 February 2005 02:57 (nineteen years ago) link

gummi gummi shock treatment

― latebloomer: The Heavy Metal Velveeta Faction (latebloomer), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link

gummi danger

― latebloomer: The Heavy Metal Velveeta Faction (latebloomer), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link

gummi gummi gummi

― latebloomer: The Heavy Metal Velveeta Faction (latebloomer), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link

gummi fuel gummi fire gummi that which i desire

― latebloomer: The Heavy Metal Velveeta Faction (latebloomer), Saturday, 26 February 2005 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link

"just one gummi roadkill!"

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/mol/jpgs/vi-creo1.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 26 February 2005 05:40 (nineteen years ago) link

gummi cigarettes

they could come with a gummi ashtray & gummi black lungs

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 26 February 2005 06:10 (nineteen years ago) link

http://media.funny.co.uk/files/2828.jpg

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Saturday, 26 February 2005 06:13 (nineteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

twats.

i used to live kind of opposite the boathouses. in the middle of winter the rowers would be out there in the fog, with torches, preparing for the boatrace. burning down boathouses is lame.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 08:49 (eighteen years ago) link

It said: "We are stronger than you, we have more resolve than you and we never give up.

"If we have to destroy every bit of property you own we will, in order to stop you inflicting your profit-driven cruelties on defenceless creatures.

haha they didn't know all the properties are insured?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 09:04 (eighteen years ago) link

and this one!!!!
It warned the company: "We have identified and tracked down many of your senior executives and also junior staff, as well as those from other HLS customers.

"Drop HLS or you will face the consequences. For all the animals inside HLS, we will be back."

if you believe that testing things on animals is a most evil thing, then surely by that logic, you'll know that a company that would test things on animals WON'T GIVE A SHIT if a couple of their staff get injured and killed (a lesser evil obviously)

they really ought to disappear in a puff of logic

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 09:08 (eighteen years ago) link

People have finally been arrested for nicking the corpse of an elderly woman related to a guinea pig farm owner, a year ago. The decaying OAP has never been found.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 09:33 (eighteen years ago) link

That'll stop them testing those row-boats on animals any more!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 09:59 (eighteen years ago) link

hahaha it was foggy, i wasn't to know those boats were CREWED BY MOLES.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 10:05 (eighteen years ago) link

nicking corpses is one thing, but surely it's perfectly acceptable to destroy boathouses and incidentally deprive all the moronic lugs that stagger round oxbridge of their one pseudo-legitimising pursuit.

― barbarian cities (jaybob3005), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:00 (eighteen years ago) link

now i was never a rower nor a friend to rowers, but i dunno if they really were morons, in the grand scheme of things.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I've got several friends who were rowers and they were all pretty damn smart and awesome.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link

[is this the time for a joke about cox'ns? surely it must be]

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link

POOR DEFENCELESS BUILDINGS

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

i've got several friends who are rowers and they're most certainly morons. they're the type to try and vivisect an animal rights protestor after 12 pints of snakebite and black down the fulham road slug n lettuce.

― barbarian cities (jaybob3005), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I think that's possibly because they suck, not because they're rowers.

― The Ghost of Trying Hard Not To H-Bomb (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link

they can probably do better maths than i can. being from oxford. or spell better. or both.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link

whilst they do quite possibly suck as individuals, having been surrounded by rowers for 3 years at college i would suggest that, as a group, they conform to their stereotype of moronic, boorish, posh lad suckers.

― barbarian cities (jaybob3005), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

You're hanging out with a bunch of internet dorks, what does that say about you?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

whammy!

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link

i love the word dork. so onomatopoeic.

― barbarian cities (jaybob3005), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link

i dork, therefore i spam

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm pork therefore i'm spam?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

why were you surrounded by rowers barbarian??

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link

The watusi!

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link

(haha that made no sense)

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

cos i went to a uni that bred them like rabbits

― barbarian cities (jaybob3005), Thursday, 29 September 2005 12:26 (eighteen years ago) link

my brother was a rower. he's now a neurosurgeon.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link

most animal rights activists are insane twats

― gear (gear), Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link

True.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

was a rower for a few months at school, but couldn't hack that schedule with being an engineering student

most animal rights activists are insane twats

yup. Do these guys tend to be communications majors? or School of Natural Resources burn-out types?

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

and it's fucking retarded to do all that shit. i'd like to see more humane treatment of animals, sure, but this only hurts the cause. which makes me think it's just a bunch of bored assholes who are looking for an excuse to fuck shit up.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link

fuck off, you guys, MOST animal rights activists don't blow shit up and are not insane twats.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

my brother is an ex-rower neurosurgeon who doesn't blow insane twats up.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't think he's much of an animal rights activist but his dog is very very cute and well cared-for.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

(xpost) LOOK OUT, SANE TWATS

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't like to refer to my sister-in-law in that way, dan.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Gummi bears:
ihttp://bonmot.ca/~daniel/pics/dnm_020602_gummi.jpg

I threw up a little in my mouth

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Bouncing here & there & everywhere?

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

five months pass...

At the time of writing, There are animal rights protestors outside my office, screaming "Stop the Oxford Animal Lab". They are here because an injunction was issued by the High Court preventing them from using megaphones, etc. in the vicinity of the building site, so they've come to the Departments of Theoretical Physics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics.

There's a bloke with a megaphone doing call and response like Snoop Dogg. He says, "Stop the Oxford Animal Lab", and the women (the others are all women) respond, "Stop the Oxford Animal Lab". Sometimes he says, "stop the Oxford torture lab" to mix things up. He recommends we visit their website.

... minutes later ...

A thunderstorm has broken, so they've gone. They walked right past my window, and a woman with a megaphone told me "that I should get of my fat arse and do some real science", then said that I am complicit in this lab because I am an employee of the University. I suppose she's right (on both counts).

Would anyone object if I said that I hated them?

― Mike W (caek), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't they know Shrodingers Cat is a thought experiment? etc. lol, etc.

― Mike W (caek), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

we're here! we're queer! we don't want anymore bears!

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Didn't some research students hang banners out of the windows of the Chemistry Research Lab building (next to the building site) recently, saying "we boil monkey cocks" or something, as a joke? They got into a bit of trouble for it, I gather.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link

REAL SCIENCE

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link

The funny thing is, here in theoretical physics, there are some people doing some pretty weird stuff that isn't considered REAL SCIENCE by some of their colleagues. Not me though. I am 4 REAL.

― Mike W (caek), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Maybe then you can tell me the effects that DARK MATTER will have on my soup in the microwave?

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link

It won't MATTER!

― Mike W (caek), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Phew. I don't want any expanding multiverses in my parsnip soup. That would be bad.

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link

but would it expand in a boiling pot of water with a live lobster in it?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link

That would be cruel.

Also, it wouldn't work with a hairy lobster because the fillaments would diffuse the heat into other curled-up dimensions.

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Lobster's filaments = four dimensional manifestation of eleven-dimensional superstrings.

― Mike W (caek), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Better than M-Theory... Mike-Theory - physics you can eat!

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

They're back. Quite a few this time. Maybe a hundred, instead of the usual half dozen. This seems to be an official demonstration."Stop the Oxford Animal Lab", I assume they shout. I can't hear them because I've got the Chelsea game on my headphones. Some of them are quite fit.

― Mike W (caek), Saturday, 25 March 2006 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Make sure you look like you are doing some real science this go-round. I'll see if I can summon a thunderstorm. A little girl at the grocery last night pointed me out to her mother and said, "Look mommy! An X-Man!" so I think I've got some powers I'm unaware of. Your story made me want the true superpower that is a MEGAPHONE, tho.

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link

The pro-test was kinda droll, I think.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

PETA Killed 97 Percent of 'Companion Animals' in 2006, According to VDACS

Death toll up to 17,400; overdue report describes PETA's deadliest year ever
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An official report from People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), submitted nine months after a Virginia government agency's deadline, shows that the animal rights group put to death more than 97 percent of the dogs, cats, and other pets it took in for adoption in 2006. During that year, the well-known animal rights group managed to find adoptive homes for just 12 pets. The nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is calling on PETA to either end its hypocritical angel-of-death program, or stop its senseless condemnation of Americans who believe it's perfectly ethical to use animals for food, clothing, and critical medical research.
Not counting animals PETA held only temporarily in its spay-neuter program, the organization took in 3,061 "companion animals" in 2006, of which it killed 2,981. According to Virginia's Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), the average euthanasia rate for humane societies in the state was just 34.7 percent in 2006. PETA killed 97.4 percent of the animals it took in. The organization filed its 2006 report this month, nine months after the VDACS deadline of March 31, 2007.
"Pet lovers should be outraged," said CCF Director of Research David Martosko. "There are thousands of worthwhile animal shelters that deserve Americans' support. PETA is not one of them."
In courtroom testimony last year, a PETA manager acknowledged that her organization maintains a large walk-in freezer for storing dead animals, and that PETA contracts with a Virginia cremation service to dispose of the bodies. In that trial, two PETA employees were convicted of dumping dead animals in a rural North Carolina trash dumpster.
Today in Southampton County, Virginia, another PETA employee will face felony charges in a dog-napping case. Andrea Florence Benoit Harris was arrested in late 2006 for allegedly abducting a hunting dog and attempting to transport it to PETA's Norfolk headquarters.
"PETA raised over $30 million last year," Martosko added, "and it's using that money to kill the only flesh-and-blood animals its employees actually see. The scale of PETA's hypocrisy is simply staggering."

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link

I keep getting surprised that it is news that PETA is fucked up. but that virginia shelter is kind of locally famous for being a death camp

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link

lolololololololololololololol

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/images/PetaFreezerPKA.gif

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:45 (sixteen years ago) link

$4K in costumes, huh?

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link

http://fishinghurts.com/pdfs/DaddyKillsAnimals.pdf

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link

Freeda the Fish Costumes - 825.00

― Michael White, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:48 (sixteen years ago) link

woah, I want that sweet-ass skull lure

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:48 (sixteen years ago) link

you realize you're reposting a press release from a tobacco / fast food / meat company astroturf group?

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:51 (sixteen years ago) link

http://sth.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/17/4/438

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:51 (sixteen years ago) link

lololololol I didn't see the second page of the brochure!!!!!!!!!!!!! lololololol wau

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link

CCF doesn't misrepresent itself half as bad as PETA does
PETA's on the news right now! apparently their latest campaign is about neutering your own children

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link

i agree peta is kinda fucked.

but common, a big tobacco funded front group?? isn't that as disingenuous as you can possibly get

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.virginia.gov/vdacs_ar/cgi-bin/Vdacs_search.cgi?link_select=facility&form=fac_select&fac_num=157&year=2006

They get the 97% by factoring out the animals reclaimed by their owners.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link

ha! still a 50% kill rate though

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link

Also lol PETA totally ate the poultry, who are we kidding here?

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link

so do they normally leave a note for the owner when they kidnap people's dogs and cats?

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah rly soy chicken my balls

― omar little, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link

searching CNN for PETA stories is awesome:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/09/execution.pizza/index.html?iref=newssearch

Cliff Tredway, the director of public relations for the Rescue Mission, said it's more than pizzas that helped that shelter.

"It's the story of a guy whose execution translated into a generous act," he said. "It's people donating to other people they don't know.

"It's about a group of people who society often writes off getting a pizza party today."

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:10 (sixteen years ago) link

ahahaha

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:10 (sixteen years ago) link

pizza party such a great phrase

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:10 (sixteen years ago) link

i have always enjoyed it

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:10 (sixteen years ago) link

(Watch homeless feast on piles of pizza http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/main/icon_video.gif)

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:14 (sixteen years ago) link

piles of pizza

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:31 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fvftxql5ldde

sadly, i can't find the cover online.

― ian, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link

but common, a big tobacco funded front group?? isn't that as disingenuous as you can possibly get

I'm hoping they'll cancel each other out. Same thing I'm hoping for fundies and Dawkins followers.

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 01:03 (sixteen years ago) link

Why is a big tobacco group fucking with PETA?

― milo z, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 01:04 (sixteen years ago) link

Why is a big tobacco group fucking with PETA?

I didn't think that CCF was taking cash from Big Tobacco. According to them, they're...

The Center for Consumer Freedom is a nonprofit coalition of restaurants, food companies, and consumers working together to promote personal responsibility and protect consumer choices.
The growing cabal of "food cops," health care enforcers, militant activists, meddling bureaucrats, and violent radicals who think they know "what's best for you" are pushing against our basic freedoms. We're here to push back.

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 01:09 (sixteen years ago) link

Okay all those times when I have defended PETA on ILE? Let this serve as an official notice that I'm off the train.

― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 01:16 (sixteen years ago) link

four years pass...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/22/justice/ohio-anti-fur-plot-arrest/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

holy shit!

― beachville, Thursday, 23 February 2012 13:57 (twelve years ago) link

I'd better go pull down that fake facebook page to solicit cocaine.

― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link

ten months pass...

psycho!

http://gawker.com/5976473/arson-cracked-testicles-and-internet-death-threats-how-animal-rights-extremists-are-learning-from-the-people-who-murdered-george-tiller?tag=terror

― Mordy, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 23:50 (eleven years ago) link

two years pass...

dunno if this is being discussed elsewhere but this is a big moment for animal rights:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/21/chimpanzees-granted-legal-persons-status-unlawful-imprisonment

― yeovil knievel (NickB), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link

seems like reasonably self aware animals have as much a right to personhood as corporations do

― head clowning instructor (art), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link

seems questionable, how much money do they make

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link

or perhaps I should say "how much value do they create"

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link

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