PETA campaigns against eating fish

[2GOLD 0]

http://veggie.org/veggie/famous.veg.athletes.shtml

 

Famous vegetarian athletes.

Okay, great and all, but why did they put a CHESS PLAYER on a list of vegan athletes?

 

Cause chess pieces are sooooo heavy.

[Guest Smues]

As someone who hasn't found a vegetable he can eat, what the fuck am I supposed to eat/drink? I can't live on bananas and water. Fuck you PETA. On the upside maybe this fish thing will lead to more Wilbon bashing PETA on PTI. Tearing up the stuffed chicken was gold.

You don't even like potatoes?

Forgot that was a vegetable.

And most of my fruit intake comes in smoothies and uh oh, THEY HAVE MILK OH NOOOOOOO. PETA can suck it. At least I don't see protesters more then once or twice a year anymore. When I was at UW I had to deal with vegan protesters all the time (not PETA specifically but the same type of people). My favorite was the one who had a flashing light that flashed about 4 times a second and had a sign that said "EVERYTIME THIS LIGHT FLASHES 50 ANIMALS ARE SLAUGHTERED!!!!" They didn't like me standing there and counting "50,100,150,200,250,300..." trying to keep up with the light.

 

And why can a bear eat a fish but we can't? When did smokey get more rights then me?

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

Eh, what the hell, I'll defend 'em.

 

Sport-n. An active pastime; recreation.

 

Athlete-n. a person trained to compete in sports

[2GOLD 0]

The best thing I ever saw was when a small group of PETA people came to protest the opening of a Arbys to our home town.

 

The police showed up and in the most polite fashion informed them if they stood in front of anyone or threw anything that the entire group of them would be in squad cars before they could say Fur is murder.

 

Of course they were upset, so in response to the anger one of the officers went inside and bought a bag of Roast Beef sandwiches and each officer ate one in front of the group. It was glorious. The only time in my life I was proud to be covering news.

 

Essentially they just started stumping in a circle chanting. The cops just hung around, eating sandwiches. It was beautiful.

[Guest BDC]

Eh, what the hell, I'll defend 'em.

 

Sport-n. An active pastime; recreation.

 

Athlete-n. a person trained to compete in sports

So someone trained to compete in an active pastime, right?

 

Chess?

 

Bro, I'm just giving you a hard time on this one. It stems from my hatred of PETA.

[2GOLD 0]

Eh, what the hell, I'll defend 'em.

 

Sport-n. An active pastime; recreation.

 

Athlete-n. a person trained to compete in sports

 

So you just made everything a sport?

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

Eh, what the hell, I'll defend 'em.

 

Sport-n. An active pastime; recreation.

 

Athlete-n. a person trained to compete in sports

So someone trained to compete in an active pastime, right?

 

Chess?

 

Bro, I'm just giving you a hard time on this one. It stems from my hatred of PETA.

Good point. I didn't pay attention to the "active" part.

[2GOLD 0]

I gotta admit though, you did bring up the fact that the definition of sport is pretty loose and weak. It essentially makes it seem like if you move any part of your body then you are competing in a sport.

 

No wonder cheerleaders think that cheerleading is a sport. By definition, EVERYTHING is a sport.

[Slayer 0]

Professional message boarding

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

That was just one definition of several.

 

I don't really consider crap like chess and cheerleading sports, either.

 

This is more how I view "sport":

 

Sport-n. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.

[2GOLD 0]

That was just one definition of several.

 

I don't really consider crap like chess and cheerleading sports, either.

 

This is more how I view "sport":

 

Sport-n. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.

 

Agreed.

 

Back to PETA, does anyone actually LIKE these clowns? They are such an insult to real groups fighting the cruelty of animals. You know, the groups that actually give a damn and aren't a bunch of stuck up losers.

[Hogan Made Wrestling 0]

Why do people get so worked up about PETA? I simply ignore them and don't care what they have to say.

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

I think PETA sucks and I think they give a bad name to the groups that do, as you said, give a damn.

[2GOLD 0]

This is why I pay attention to PETA:

 

Because they get all the attention and funding while groups that are actually doing the work are struggling to survive on the funds they have. It's annoying since some of us, myself included, care about cruelty to animals to an extent but if you say it you immediately seem to get lumped in with these freaks of nature.

[Guest BDC]

Oops, sorry about your tires. I didn't realize you weren't lumped in with them.

[frisco 0]

This whole topic makes me hungry. I'm going to go back a steak.

[Guest SideFXs]

More hyperbole and emotional appeals, from P.E.T.A.

 

MY favorite campaign was the 2003 "Holocaust on Your Plate" action campaign, which juxtaposed images from holocaust concentration camps with images of industrial meat processing.

 

P.E.T.A. thinks mankind is the enemy.

[Styles 0]

That was just one definition of several.

 

I don't really consider crap like chess and cheerleading sports, either.

 

This is more how I view "sport":

 

Sport-n. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.

 

Agreed.

 

Back to PETA, does anyone actually LIKE these clowns? They are such an insult to real groups fighting the cruelty of animals. You know, the groups that actually give a damn and aren't a bunch of stuck up losers.

Kamui liked PETA. I can't seem to find that thread though. We should have created an archive of every Kamui thread...

[The Metal Maniac 0]

Everytime PETA says or does something stupid, there should be another "Eat an Animal for PETA Day" added to the calender.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

I wonder how long until one of these morons goes out and kills a bunch of people or straps a bomb to themselves and blows a slaughterhouse up or something.

[Slayer 0]

We should have created an archive of every Kamui thread...

There were about five different threads of me vs. him in the VG folder

[tekcop 0]

I wonder how long until one of these morons goes out and kills a bunch of people or straps a bomb to themselves and blows a slaughterhouse up or something.

I give it another year or so.

 

Oh... and the whole roast beaf-eating cops thing. That's awesome.

[Dr. Tom 0]

The best thing I ever saw was when a small group of PETA people came to protest the opening of a Arbys to our home town.

 

The police showed up and in the most polite fashion informed them if they stood in front of anyone or threw anything that the entire group of them would be in squad cars before they could say Fur is murder.

 

Of course they were upset, so in response to the anger one of the officers went inside and bought a bag of Roast Beef sandwiches and each officer ate one in front of the group. It was glorious. The only time in my life I was proud to be covering news.

 

Essentially they just started stumping in a circle chanting. The cops just hung around, eating sandwiches. It was beautiful.

That's awesome. It's the little acts of Satan which are always the best.

[Special K 0]

Kamui thought a lab rat was worth more than an unborn human fetus. Can't get any better than that for instantly discrediting someone.

 

In honor of this, I'm gonna get some sushi for dinner. Nothing like getting it straight off the fish. And fish are fucking stupid animals. No one's going to convince me different. Next they're going to be saying shrimp and clams are intelligent. They aren't intelligent, they're delicious.

 

Someone should gently tell them that if you allow a prey species to go unchecked, they end up eatting themselves to death. It's all a part of the circle of life, duuude.

 

I think they'd get more credit if they tried to fight for animal conditions while they're alive, rather than just whining about the vast majority of us, i.e. omnivores.

 

How can people even stand to be vegan? I think the life of a dairy cow has to be pretty damn good. Lie around and eat and crap all day, get milked for an hour, yay! I can understand vegetarian. you can eat some good stuff there.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

I'd go fishing in honor of this if the weather wasn't so shitty today.

[NoCalMike 0]

If PETA was serious about this fish thing, they should attack pollution and point out that the mercury levels in the water is getting almost out of control, and that eating too much fish can load females with enough mercury to produce retarded children. That is at least a decent reason to CUT DOWN on eating fish, without being stupid and saying "fish are so smart, they are running scared of the evil humans and their appetites"

[Guest MikeSC]

The best thing I ever saw was when a small group of PETA people came to protest the opening of a Arbys to our home town.

 

The police showed up and in the most polite fashion informed them if they stood in front of anyone or threw anything that the entire group of them would be in squad cars before they could say Fur is murder.

 

Of course they were upset, so in response to the anger one of the officers went inside and bought a bag of Roast Beef sandwiches and each officer ate one in front of the group. It was glorious. The only time in my life I was proud to be covering news.

 

Essentially they just started stumping in a circle chanting. The cops just hung around, eating sandwiches. It was beautiful.

That's awesome. It's the little acts of Satan which are always the best.

Up there with Riordan meeting with, I believe, animal rights activists while eating a hamburger.

-=Mike

[Highland 0]

So, if PETA is known to fund terrorists, then why haven't they been treated as such?

[sfaJack 0]

I think he ate the hamburger in front of a bunch of folks on a hunger strike, but either way it's still an awesome, assholish thing to do.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Sadly, I haven't encountered a PETA demonstration...