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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (107373)	8/9/2005 2:19:22 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

There is no level to which PETA can't sink. Although they feign surprise at the offense taken by blacks and Jews, they know full well the impact of comparing cows to slaves and birds to holocaust victims. It's all about getting press.

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (107373)	8/10/2005 3:33:36 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

It's nice to see you posting here, Oral. I mostly try not to post to you because I don't want to get your blood pressure up, but I think this topic is very important, so I will try to comment gently about it. I don't belong to PETA, and am an advocate of animal rights in general, not PETA's tactics. If I were to try and defend them, it would be based on two things. First, public demonstrations like this do get press attention, and get people talking about animal rights issues. Second, their hearts are in the right place. They are not morons, really. They are trying to do something very positive. Animals ARE treated like slaves used to be. While the photos were very provocative, I'm sure, if only a few people who were at the demonstration or read about it decide they are not going to eat meat anymore, I think it is worthwhile. Why would such photos insult black people? PETA is not saying that black people are animals. They are saying that today we treat animals in the same barbaric way we used to treat slaves. Surely a moderately intelligent person can see the difference there. If I were planning an animal rights demonstration, I would probably equate farm animals to pets. I would show photos of Golden Retrievers in confinement cages, or their bodies marked for meat cuts. Now that we know how intelligent our pets are, how sensitive they are, and how similar they are to farm animals in their personalities and problem solving abilities, it seems really discriminatory to treat dogs and cats like pets, but cows and pigs and sheep and chickens so very badly, as we do on factory farms. I think that a campaign like that would probably offend fewer people, and make them think at the same time.