[quote]Bauer97 wrote:
I mean, really, do you get just as upset at somebody stepping on an ant as you would if you saw somebody stomping on the head of a puppy?[/quote]
This brought back buried memories of a scene from American Psycho…
[quote]gojira wrote:
onewall wrote:
It is “gratuitously cruel”. By its very nature we are supposed to get enjoyment from some other person’s or some other creature’s suffering. Some will enjoy the suffering of the cockroach and some will enjoy the suffering of the person eating it, but enjoying the suffering is what this is all about.
Comparing this to a scientist using lab rats for curing hepititis is a poor comparison. The scientist causes suffering to the lab rat because he does not see a way around it. So you may not care about the rat because you feel it is used productively to cure a disease. But you would feel differently if a child brought the rat to school and bit its head off for show and tell.
You don’t know me very well, LOL. I have often said in the past, the day that PETA starts picketing the Orkin laboratory is the day I might pay attention to them. My problem with PETA has always been that they only “protect” the cute and furry, or artificially selected animals. Their sole purpose is to separate you from your dollars by tugging at your heart strings. They are not an environmental group and do nothing to protect habitats or endangered species.
Many celebs are sucked into this thinking it to be a noble cause while not understanding that many crucial medical procedures rely on animal testing. How many PETA supporters will refuse a blood transfusion or chemotherapy or any other procedure that was developed through animal testing?
Hence my question about Pam Anderson. Did she allow them to use general anesthesia during her “augmentation” operations? When they drew her blood sample to test her for Hep C, did she not realize that this procedures and subsequent testing methods were most likely tested on animals first?
Now allow me to point out that I have always been horrified by the casual nature with which some animals lives are extiguished for the sake of our entertainment. I always wondered if PETA protested the Fear Factor show, as they always had an insect eating contest.
Somehow our society thinks of insects as something less than animals, as something that is just in our way.
Let’s try this:
I’ll replace the cockroaches with puppies and see how you guys repsond to the article.
[i]GURNEE, Ill. - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants Six Flags Great America to scrap its Halloween-themed puppy-eating promotion.
A spokeswoman for the animal rights organization says the contest at the amusement park’s FrightFest is “gratuitously cruel.”
The park in Gurnee, Ill., is joining other Six Flags parks in offering unlimited line-jumping privileges to anyone who eats a live puppy. The puppies are up to twelve inches long.
The contest begins next month.
Amusement park officials are defending their menu choice. Great America spokesman Jim Taylor says the puppies are nutritious, high in protein and fat free.
[/i]
Completely different gut response, eh?
Allow me to point out again that I am not a PETA supporter. However, I am a big “insect rights” supporter.[/quote]
if you made it “steak” and not puppies people would care about as much as the cockroaches though.
[quote]RickJames wrote:
Jesse Cohen wrote:
Wow, are you kidding me?
Jesse, I thought you were a PETA activist. I mean from your bodybuilding pictures it doesn’t look like you ingest a whole lot of protein. hahahaha.[/quote]
I don’t. I suffice on hummus, soy nuts, and tree bark. If I’m feeling frisky, I’ll add some tofurkey in my diet.
Betcha can’t eat just one!
[quote]gojira wrote:
Allow me to point out again that I am not a PETA supporter. However, I am a big “insect rights” supporter.[/quote]
You should lobby to get all those evil windshields banned.
I thought PETA stood for “People Eating Tasty Animals”
[quote]aleator wrote:
I thought PETA stood for “People Eating Tasty Animals”
[/quote]
Hmm, that gave me an idea. Who can come up with the best meaning for PETA. Winner gets a million bucks.
People Equal Total Assholes
[quote]hockechamp14 wrote:
I don’t understand how people can say insects are high in protein. They weigh what? 5 grams max? ok even if the insects were PURE protein, that’s 5 grams of protein. Amazingly high eh?[/quote]
Dude, you ever sit yourself down to a meal of only one crawfish or prawn?
So why whould their fellow arthropods be consumed in anything less than a massacre?
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How about: Pretentious & Exaggeratory Two-Faced Annoyances
Hey you guys should also check out their two comics “Your Daddy/Mommy Kills Animals” Both are rediculously out there.
If anybody is stomping on a puppies head they better plan on “wokking” it!
Pernicious Egotistical Tucked-away Animophiles
I cannot forsee anyway you could get me to eat one of those things…maybe if I got both of the Olsen twins at the same time, possibly
come on folks we all know cockroaches dont have souls
[quote]Wayland wrote:
come on folks we all know cockroaches dont have souls[/quote]
Really? When a politician reincarnates, where do you think he goes?
…as for the acronym, I’d say Please Exterminate Those Assholes
[quote]Jesse Cohen wrote:
aleator wrote:
I thought PETA stood for “People Eating Tasty Animals”
Hmm, that gave me an idea. Who can come up with the best meaning for PETA. Winner gets a million bucks.
People Equal Total Assholes[/quote]
Pussies Eat Tofu A lot.
DB
[quote]pookie wrote:
Really? When a politician reincarnates, where do you think he goes?
[/quote]
tapeworms and leeches
[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:
Jesse Cohen wrote:
aleator wrote:
I thought PETA stood for “People Eating Tasty Animals”
Hmm, that gave me an idea. Who can come up with the best meaning for PETA. Winner gets a million bucks.
People Equal Total Assholes
Pussies Eat Tofu A lot.
DB[/quote]
The winner! Your million dollars is in the mail.
I think it should be noted that humans (generally) have empathy for animals with which we have had a symbiotic relationship with for thousands of years (i.e. dogs, cats, horses, etc.) whereas insects and humans tend to not get along too well.
I have no doubts that insects would treat humans just the same if the food chain was juggled. I also think that kittens and puppies would play with us and take care of us if roles were reversed (in general). Of course, there would be maladjusted individual animals that would run a lawnmower over a baby’s head every now and then. Insects would just eat us and spray us with nasty chemicals. I wouldn’t mind stinging a hornet or two, though, those f-ing aggressive bastards that sting without provocation.
DB
[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:
I think it should be noted that humans (generally) have empathy for animals with which we have had a symbiotic relationship with for thousands of years (i.e. dogs, cats, horses, etc.) whereas insects and humans tend to not get along too well.
DB[/quote]
Exactly. Most of those mammals, if approached in a friendly manner, will respond in a friendly manner.
However, everytime I try to pet a rattlesnake or black widow, the fuckers just keep biting me!