Jan16
Internet Soup
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Happy Friday, y'all! Starting off with our first bite of soup, I'll offer you a taste of something that I'll never get tired of hearing about:
- In the 80s we convinced the USDA to fine a laboratory in which a number of chimpanzees "lived." The chimpanzees would spend the majority of their 30 years on earth inside cages, locked in a basement with barely any light. We've worked on the case since then, and things have slowly moved forward. Here's the heart-melting part: They're now breathing the fresh air at the Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest in Seattle. Here's a video of some of the chimpanzees from that laboratory reacting to their first snowfall.
- Now, for more fun stuff: It's a duck in a truck. This here is a clip of a truck driver who's found the answer to world peace in his best friend, Frankie the duck.
- We at PETA get a big kick out of the genius of the lolcats. Their Web site, icanhascheezburger.com, could use a name change, but we'll let that slide for now as they've cooked up a lovely anti-fur ad.
- May I present a shining example of evil genius put to effective use? This cute and very twisted video game called Beefbash perfectly conveys the gruesomeness of meat by putting the electric prod and carving knife right into your hands. You even get to choose the adorable animal you butcher.
- Good news for pigs in Germany! Many male pigs will no longer be castrated before they are turned into food for a huge Dutch supermarket. Check out the story here.
- If your doctor tells you to go home and eat more fish, show him or her this article.
- And last but not least, if you're still angry enough to spit at the abuse that those chimpanzees who now live in Seattle used to endure, take a gander at this karma. The wee monkey actually kept going until the stick broke!
Well, that was quite a large serving this month, and it was quite satisfying, if I do say so myself! Now that you've had your fill, off you go.
Until next time!
Posted by Missy Lane
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Comments
Great picture, but the unfortune thing is that on the same site, right beside the picture on the top right corner is an advertisement for furs. Is this a mistake? That made me want to vomit and took away any impact on the anti-fur ad. Surely, the moderator of the site needs to be more aware of who is advertising.
Posted by: Stephen | January 16, 2009 04:33 PM
Love the duck. I hope it soon twigs on his friend, the duck hunter, that all ducks deserve to live.
Beefbash looks pretty graphic, but then the truth isn't very pretty. I think whoever created the game is getting the right message across.
Posted by: Mike Quinoa | January 17, 2009 03:10 PM
"Great picture, but the unfortune thing is that on the same site, right beside the picture on the top right corner is an advertisement for furs. Is this a mistake?"
It was probably just an automatically generated ad, like the Google ones that get whatever's said on the page, run it for companies that have those words and run that ad. Like on a Bible discussion page, an ad for bibles automatically comes up.
On this site, there's stuff about fur coats, so what comes up? I think you can guess
Posted by: Danny | January 18, 2009 05:32 AM
"Good news for pigs in Germany! Many male pigs will no longer be castrated before they are turned into food for a huge Dutch supermarket."
Well, as we humans who live with dogs know, castration in an already unnatural world is not always bad per se. If the pigs live like the average dog in the West - they would be better off if they were castrated a few weeks after birth WITH painkillers. After all - it is not nice to have sexual desires and not even getting a single chance to...
There are - as always - economic consideration in place. Proper welfare would demand a castration with painkillers. But it is is cheaper to not castrate them at all - as "food pigs" do not grow very old anyway. They barely finish puberty before they are killed for taste.
Maybe we should start a campaign:
"Stop killing children! Stop killing virgins"
PS: PETA rocks. Also - can somebody write veganfreaks a friendly memo that animals would thank them if they invested 2% of the effort of misunderstanding and criticizing PETA and if they actually used those 2% for doing something for animals ... never mind. Would veganfreaks boycott a CO2 tax only because they want oil not be used at all one day? Please - somebody help those two to get out of the quick-sand and to join the real world. It is not sustainable to remain in a mind-set that sees ideology and reality as mutually exclusive.
I reckon that somebody who is pro-animals should spend not more than 50% of his time criticizing other pro-animal efforts? Same goes for mr francione? We already have consumerfreedom & Co.. do something else please... or do less of what you do know. Sea-Kittens, doesn't make sense to you, wtf, ... good.. that is what modern animal abuse is about - it does not make sense... it is primitive, emotional, ... Sea-Kittens GO!!!
Also - somebody has to send veganfreaks and francione a marketing 101 book or something and explain to them that we are dealing with different "customer segments", demographics, industries etc which require different emotional communication and campaigns. PETA, of all AR organizations, is the only one that has shown to me that they are capable of addressing all aspects. Hence, they have a healthy balance of living in their own world while being aware of the other movies being shown in the cinema.
PETA knows how to move "pet lovers" slowly but surely into recognizing that non-dogs and non-cats are animals too. They educate vegetarians on why milk.. they educate environmentalist on why... people who are trying to live healthy on why... and there is always only one direction in which they pull these "customer segments" - the core ethical AR arguments. PETA tries to move to veganism as quickly as human nature and emotions of different customer segments allow.
Kudos for be being able to see the world as one yet not the same!
Posted by: Hugo Pottisch | January 18, 2009 10:42 AM
I'm glad to know that more people care about animals and Peta does her best campain for them, it just not fair kill and pollute our enviroment and their animals, we'll find the armony between both, i'm from peru , i'm vegetarian since i'm a child , my mom does too
Posted by: gala | January 19, 2009 02:21 PM
great videos!!very heartwarming
Posted by: simara | January 19, 2009 08:46 PM
thinking about it though it is very weird to me that the hunter STILL hunts when he admits to this incredible bond with the duck..
I don't understand the breakdown in connection there
Posted by: simara | January 19, 2009 09:28 PM
Good for those monkeys who took revenge on their cruel "master"!
I wish they could join the chimps in the sanctuary in Seattle where they could have a chance to live in peace far away from the moron who abuses them.
Posted by: David | January 19, 2009 11:34 PM