[Narz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Narz', 'I') think it's a good idea personally.

[billg]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('FourOfSwords', 'I')t's sort of already here. Google 'Quorn'. Sold in US and UK. Fake meat made in a commercial vat, out of slime mold...yum.
Alex- looking for a juicy solyent green cheeseburger.

[dinopello]

PETA Superbowl add is rejected by NBC - Booo!

[Ayoob]

Wow, this one came back from the dead.

It's a couple years later and I eat meat again. I'm working towards a situation in which I will raise and slaughter my own meat. It's still a couple years away. Still, I think about the conditions that animals are raised in and use that to guide my purchases.

For example, I found out about Kosher slaughter and saw a few videos of that practice. It tossed my stomach again, and now I won't eat kosher meat. The way the slaughter is carried out is EVEN WORSE than factory farm stuff.

I don't bring it up, though. If a Jew or a Muslim brings up dietary practices, I still don't bring it up. But if they say something about Halal meat or Kosher meat, and this is Kosher or Halal here on my plate or in my sandwich, I might not sit with them again for a meal. I'm not going to convince anyone that Jewish dietary practices are bad, it's too non-PC. It doesn't have anything to do with Jews or Arabs, they can eat normal food if they want. Some people make a specific choice to eat Kosher or Halal, and that's who I avoid.

I just don't think it's right to demand a less humane slaughter for the animals because of your religious affiliations. It's saying you want animals to suffer MORE, so you can say you follow your religious laws.

That's my deal now.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', ' ')A PIG!! I'd like someone to say that to my face (in person of course).

[PenultimateManStanding]

Interesting to see an ancient thread revived. Like cloning dinosaurs. There was Raxozanne again. She left in a tizzy over a thread about patriarchy. Man, talk about buttons! She had this big red button that screamed DO NOT PUSH THIS BUTTON! Sinisterbluecat has been gone for a long time too. Too bad, I hope she comes back.

[aldente]

In hindsight one wonders truly where some of the posters from the "old days" ended up (mentally). After all this is a brain-forum, attacting likeminded thinkers, or so at least it seems.

[Jotapay]

Meat is murder!

...sweet, sweet murder

[aldente]

Obviously it is Jotapay. what else would it be? A creature is a creature, is a creature.
I eat meat here and there, even though I have been a vegetarian for over 20 years. Living in Asia however made it impossible to continue this self-prescribed diet. It was in North Africa actually where I was cured from my egocentric diet originally, as a young man in the early stages of vegetarianism. Nowadays I vote for breatherianism - meaning neither solid or liquid intake at all. PETA activists are hippocrates technically , since they still must eat plants- which is a destructive measure to the individual plant live form, (not to say that they point their fingers in the right direction when it comes to a public that devours meat "as if it would be a commodity").

[Pretorian]

What do Petans say about traditional non-factory farming? Not that I care about their opninon, but still-- is it better not to be born at all or be born , run around on the farm for a few months, and die quick?

[aldente]

...not to say that they point their fingers in the "wrong" direction, to edit the input before.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')ETA’s Euthanasia Rates Have Critics Fuming, according to AOL News, and rightfully so.

“In 2009, PETA euthanized 2,301 dogs and cats -- 97 percent of those brought in -- and adopted only eight, according to Virginia state figures. And the rate of these killings has been increasing.”

That’s 2352 animals: 681 dogs, 1620 cats and 51 other companion animals.

A mere eight of them were saved.

Granted, PETA’s main function isn’t to run as an adoption agency, but eight animals? That’s just shameful. Where’s the ethical treatment in that? Was something wrong with them? Terminal illness? Injuries? Behavioral issues? Aggression? Were all of the dogs Pit bulls?

According to Daphna Nachminovitch, vice president of cruelty investigations at PETA, their euthanasia program isn’t any big secret. She also adds that money can’t buy a good home.

Maybe not, but with $34 million in the bank, surely more of an effort could have been made. Maybe by spending less on things like billboards that shame women into giving up meat by calling them whales…because only skinny people care about animals?
http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/-34-million-later-peta-saves-eight-animals/

[rangerone314]

Why be surprised that the rot has spread everywhere?

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'W')hy be surprised that the rot has spread everywhere?

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'W')hy be surprised that the rot has spread everywhere?

[dinopello]

It's the PETA version of the Death Panel !

Putting a suffering animal down is difficult but - if the suffering is acute, it isn't that impossible. "Pre-terminating" on the assumption that the suffering will occur at some point would be a problem if that is indeed what has occurred.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'I')t's the PETA version of the Death Panel !

Putting a suffering animal down is difficult but - if the suffering is acute, it isn't that impossible. "Pre-terminating" on the assumption that the suffering will occur at some point would be a problem if that is indeed what has occurred.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'M')y beef with PETA is that it's just plain twisted for anybody who claims to care so much about pets to actually euthanize rather than rescue.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'P')ETA is opposed to the idea of "pets".

[dinopello]

PETA opposes chicken carcass 'porn'

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he "pin-up" style photo of a raw chicken lounging seductively ran in Wednesday's food section of the New York Times along with a story on the appeal of crispy, savory chicken skin.

The image was intended as a humorous, eye-catching approach to your standard food fetish art. But PETA's Newkirk is calling it necrophilia.