I'm With PETA On This One

Wherein I drop the F-Bomb. Repeatedly. I dunno, I guess PETA just brings out the worst in me.

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl092005peta.780315b0.html
At first, I had mixed feelings about this story.

But then I got to thinking...

On the one hand, wouldn't it be really nice to have a National PETA Shuts The Fuck Up Day?

On the other hand, imagine a roomful of animals in cages, as the water in the room continues to rise. For me, the horror of that mental image only barely falls short of the horrible mental image of human beings dying slowly and helplessly.

I'm inclined to say that in this case, fuck yeah make the University confront its callousness.
I'm actually all about humane treatment of animals, up to a point.

If testing SARS vaccines on monkeys is the best/quickest way to eliminate SARS as a serious threat to humans, then so be it. But by all means treat those poor doomed monkeys as well as you can, and euthanize them quickly and cleanly as soon as you have your research data.

Any university whose lab animal evacuation plan is "well, it's a major natural disaster, so we're justified in beating feet and letting our slave races die a slow, horrible death"... fuck 'em.

I say, at that point they deserve PETA.


On the third hand, maybe PETA should sue themselves, for not working with the university in advance, to provide the resources, know-how, and warm caring hearts necessary to save all those poor creatures...
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I'm actually all about humane treatment of animals, up to a point.


Same here...I like to eat meat...and experimenting is tolerable for me....but by all means, don't torture the poor things.

~Zoo
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And don't abandon them because humane treatment of animals is hard.
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Apparently you are under the false impression that PETA gives a crap about animals.
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I agree.  That's just fucked up, leaving them to die like that.

Yes, they're 'only' animals, but those 'only' animals have helped save countless lives.  They deserve respectful and humane treatment, period.

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I would have gladly traded liberals for animals that day, thousands of poor animals dead that's tragic, thousands of dead liberals, now that's a GOOD START!!!! hahahahahahahahah
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Oh, I'm under no such impression. You misread my irony and sarcasm, ParaTed.

But I do think that regardless of PETA's true motivation, the university has pretty much earned themselves an eternity of PETA hell.
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Stutefish, sorry, I didn't put my trademark ";~D" after my post, I thought I was going with the sarcasm. Good article either way.

And yes, the university deserves all the PETA they get!
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Curses! Hoist by my own petard!

You win this one, ParaTed!

But we shall meet again. And the next time, victory will be mine!

This I swear.

No petards were harmed in the making of this post.
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