I honestly can’t improve on this, so I’m just going to rip off reprint the recent commentary of Memphis, Tennessee photographer Mike Brown as it appeared in his hometown newspaper, The Commercial Appeal.
Just remember: These are the same activists who think it’s unethical to wear a fur-trimmed parka, eat a chicken nugget, or test cancer meds on lab rats.
Ashley Byrne, a Washington, D.C.-based campaign coordinator with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), talks with Memphis police officers during a recent demonstration outside City Hall that coincided with World Vegetarian Week.
When officers inquired about the well-being of intern Shawn Herbold (bottom) and volunteer Thomas Olsen, a sweat-soaked Herbold replied that she was in pain and feeling nauseated from the heat after being wrapped in cellophane for 30 minutes, and also asked how much longer she needed to stay there. Byrne let her know it wouldn’t be much longer and left her under the hot afternoon sun for 30 minutes more while debating with the officers.
PETA would never treat a cow that way, but I guess it’s OK for an intern. Many organizations that focus on extremes could take note that leading through example makes more impact than demonstrating with hypocrisy.
If it seems like I’m harshing on PETA a good deal lately, that’s only because I’m actually paying close attention to what they do. And they have it coming.
I’m considering starting up a special section of Deceiver just for animal-rights hypocrites.
What do you think, gentle readers? Good idea or not?
Intern or not Shawn Herbold is a member of peta. And therefore she gets very little sympathy from me just because she was being sweating on a sidewalk. I hate peta and everyone that is a member of peta. Terrorists. I wouldn’t even have had a 30 minute debate. I would have shrugged and walked away.
Good idea for the animal-rights thing too. Expose alf, elf, peta, greenpeace, wwf, and the rest.
They’re a bunch of crazy weirdos! Just like scientologists!!
Would it be different than just the ‘categories’ section to the right?
If so, DO IT!
Please please one for faux environmentalists too!
Um, if Shawn needed help she should have told the cops who were there to help her. If she remained on the ground for another 30 minutes then she’s the total dumbass.
I totally agree with Pastafarian that PETA is a domestic terrorist organization.
Hey, PETA, humans are animals too and should be treated ethically!!!!!!!
Well, I think it’s always a good idea to have a hypocrite specific area, (you know, like children’s charities infested by pedophiles with no safety precautions etc.) My reason is….I am an environmentalist and animal rights activist. I may be crazy, but I think the truth can never hurt any legit group, or person. Now I quit PETA years ago, (I know nobody cares, but I believe in being truthful) I don’t have a specific axe to grind. I just think logic should be the guiding rule in everything. My pet peeve are the complete idiots/criminals at Earth Liberation Front (IMO, any group with ‘liberation’ in their name strikes me as one step away from being the Weathermen) who set fire to cars…..to protest carbon emissions.
They need their own section! Go for it!
Just goes to show that human life is cheap to these terrorists. Not that the idiot that stayed in the packaging deserves sympathy as already mentioned, but humans are animals too.
Yeah, meat is murder. So is spiking trees to maim and kill loggers. So are the people being injured when their car slams into a cow on the freeway that those morons ‘liberated’.
Lets not forget that PETA has raised money on numerous occasions for the legal defense of serial arsonists that have admittedly set fire to dozens of university’s animal testing facilities. I’m honestly thinking of starting a counter-organization and calling it Humans First. Our entire goal will be rooting out domestic terrorists and exposing traitors to the species. But mostly it will be about smashing hippies 60’s style: spring batons and firehoses.
On the separate section, if you do that what are the categories for?
It sounds like hazing to me. Something pledges do to become full blown members. I guess the intern passed and all he had to do was risk his life.
I notice they’re wearing underwear, I’ve never seen a whole chicken wrapped with a loincloth. Just more hypocrisy there. If you’re going to wrap yourself in cellophane like meat sold in a supermarket, go the whole full monty like those murdered animals do! They don’t get the chance to hide their private bits. Because of PeTA’s lack of will, I’m going to have me some hamburger tonight.
Peta is the worst. I’m a vegan, and peta is the biggest bunch of hypocrites ever, they’ve given awards to meat-eaters and even a women who helps design slaughterhouses (someone named Temple Grandin or something like that?). In the animal rights movement there “abolitionists” which are the ‘real’ ARAs, people who believe that animals should not be used in any way. Peta is more about animal “welfare” which means you can use them, as long as it’s ‘nice’
Not the message the largest animal rights organization should be giving out, in my opinion.
Take those hypocrites down! I’m all for veggies and treating animals well, but PETA’s constant hypocrisy overshadows anything they actually do for animal welfare.
definitely a good idea. please take those hypocrites down…
Want a good laugh? Watch this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ijLulwUTY
My personal favorite is Mary Beth Sweetland, Vice President of PETA and type a diabetic.
While she admits that her insulin “contains some animal products” she also says “I don’t see myself as a hypocrite. I need my life to fight for the rights of animals.” WTF? Puts Pam Anderson and Jenna Jameson to shame. Hypocrisy thy name is PETA.
Amazing how willing PETA is when it comes to exploiting people to get their “points” across. PETA activist or not or whether they deserve it or not. People’s health come in second.
I fail to comprehend how an organization that is so hell-bent on the right treatment of other animals doesn’t even have respect for their own species. It’s funny how if you sneeze around an animal or look at it crooked, PETA will be up in arms, but when it comes to nearly suffocating a human being to death, it’s okay.
People For The Ethical Treatment are phoneys who can’t argue out of their own asses, so they resort to shock-and-awe campaigning strategies to elude the naive from their lack of knowledge. Any REAL organization wouldn’t focus so much on attacking those who don’t agree with it, but strengthen its own following.
PETA members are fundamentally retarded. Humans ARE animals, and last time I checked, they should defend their rights as well.
I look at that picture and all I want is a steak.
Sooooo, the plastic wrap was so tight that the poor helpless humans couldn’t decide for themselves if it was time to get up and wipe the sweat off? If that’s true, then shame on PETA for subjecting them to such abuse. If they couldn’t figure out for themselves when it was time to call it a day, then I don’t see why PETA (or anyone else) should be held accountable for their stupidity.
is there a more fascist group around? PETA supports domestic terrorism and is not about rights, but about forcing people to act according to their dictats. however, anyone stupid enough to A) shill for them and 2) let themselves be wrapped up in plastic wrap on a hot day doesn’t get my sympathy.
the special PETA section is a slam dunk idea….along with penn and teller’s expose on PETA, deceiver is the perfect venue for such info.
Anytime I see those s***lickers organizing I’m going to McDonald’s and hooking every onlooker up with a happy meal. You could totally devote a site to the animal-diet-activist. Make sure it has a meat and bbq recipe section.
These people are nuts!! Right up there with the Scientologists and Dina Lohan!!
Just wondering how many people here have purchased swimsuit clad, live meat wrapped in cellophane at your grocery store? We don’t seem to carry it here in Toronto, any suggestions where I could find myself some?
The fact that they must strip down to their bikinis or less are a real eye-roller.
Nothing screams “we suck at making effective arguments” than putting a bunch of young interns in bikinis on public display in hopes of some horny sucker waltzing on by and paying attention to their pitiful endeavors…and supporting them.
What a shallow organization, objectifying women’s bodies as a venue for their petty arguments. Yes, I understand that these twits volunteered to participate in the demonstration, but it was PETA’s idea. I find it rather “interesting” who PETA chooses as its mascots and/or demonstrators, not only to mention two young interns in skimpy bikinis, but also Pam Anderson and Jenna Jameson posing nude for anti-fur ads.
I’m pretty f*cking sure that PETA knows what its doing when it selects attractive sex icons to pose nude for their campaigns. As I said, PETA thinks the nude or scantily clad female protesters are going to attract some idiot who thinks he’ll get laid if he pretends to give a sh*t about the cause.
For a bunch of melodramatic crusaders, PETA’s a little bit sexist and hence immoral, don’t you think?
THIS SITE IS STUPID
NO ONE CARES IF U DON’T LIKE PETA, PETA <3 YOU TOO …I love myself <3
in the future we will all be Vegans !!! lol MEAT IS MORE EXPENSIVE 2 PRODUCE, distribute AND PAckage
with oil/ Agriculture going up MEAt and Dairy is going 2 be unrealistic…if u know anything about these billion dollar industries you’ll know they are more toxic 2 the planet than PETA rhetoric is so SHUT UP
Ummm… no?
We’ve been eating meat for thousands of years, since well before we had a combustion engine. Believe me, if we had to go back to using trains to ship meat, we’d still do it.
The price of oil only effects the transport of meat apparently? I guess those tons of grain and vegetables just magically float from their farms down to your local market? You think farm equipment runs on good intentions? It’s likely that oil shortages will impact a vegetarian’s diet FAR more than a meat eater’s.
Why? Because you can raise most animals ANYWHERE. Do you take the time to look at where your fruits and vegetables come from? We’re not exactly a tropical country here. With the exception of California and Florida, almost all of the produce we have here is wheat, corn, or soybeans. Here’s the dirty little secret though: most of the corn, wheat, and soybeans we produce here aren’t considered fit for human consumption, and it’s sold off as feed for those animals we eat.
Odds are if you live outside of LA or NYC, you’ve got a farm with cattle on it nearby. Ever notice that nearly every major city has a slaughterhouse district? The meat in your local market was most likely grown within a few hundred miles of you, and the feed that it survived on was likely grown just as close. That’s somehow harder to transport than fruits and vegetables from South America or Asia? Yeah, that’s why my local market is limiting people to one bag of rice per family, per week - because we’re all going to be vegan soon. Love that PETA logic.
I have always wondered why PETA supporters aren’t all over the comments trying to defend their precious terrorist organization, and lo and behold, there’s one! Sorry, I don’t see veganism in my future. I prefer a healthy, balanced diet and will happily raise my own livestock the day I can’t afford it at Sainsbury’s. I’ve done it before.
And honey, PETA is toxic. PETA is a blight on any good that real animal activists attempt to achieve. One can still stand up for animal welfare from the top of the food chain, drumstick in hand.
Is it a coincidence that all the little PETA defenders all “typ lyk dis”?
Granted Anonymous is most likely no older than 14, I’m going to be more gentle than I usually am with people who support the organization and ask if they actually even read the article.
I’ve noticed every time, PETA makes an ass out of itself that its supporters reactions are hardly ever relevant to the topic at hand.
So you’re vegan? Congratulations, but your little rant on how eating meat is bad hardly has much to do with the actual discussion. You’d rather sit there and, instead of admitting to what PETA actually represents, try to justify your little cult by entirely avoiding the report of circumstances and backpeddle with “MEAT IZ BAD!!!11!!”
And you don’t have to be a PETA activist in order to be a vegan.
Go write another poem about your pubescent woes.
Christina X, over the course of my typical day, I have much to smile and laugh about. However, your post is the best laugh I’ve had all day, and in all the right ways. I’m not out to attack vegans. I myself was a vegetarian for two years, though not because I felt guilt or whatever some people do about eating meat. I watched diabetes take bits off my grandpa before the kidney failure set in and thought I would do something for my own health, though it was misguided and I learned that going vegetarian wasn’t going to stave off diabetes so much as my already healthy lifestyle was doing. But I digress… this Anonymous person didn’t even address the post. There was nothing there to even argue with because the post lacked any intelligent defense of PETA’s actions. I would love to see some PETA type come on here and actually say something worth reading and worth debating.
Still waiting…
PETA is nothing more than a bunch of pious a___munchers who members all live in a dreamy, dream world watching E! reruns of the Real Wives of Orange County. Another group of retards.
I love this website. It’s hilarous.
my opinion is that at present, it is a `bad’ idea. of course i am assuming the goal is to make `them’ (whoever, exactly `they’ are) look like morons. surely some are, just like in any other broad demographic, does the level of critique here justify the blanket assumptions and generalizations?
the specific post about the activist in plastic was far closer than the rest wrt clarifying what the gripe is and why, but still assumes enough that a `fair’ reader would need to verify the many assumptions appearing to creep in to condemn or not, hence the blurb itself is insufficient.
the rest of them could keep me busy for quite awhile pointing out logical and factual errors that often reflect the usual traps that those who don’t have any real information about the issues they are addressing so confidently are likely to fall in. the leather issue being a marvelous example, and no i won’t bother explaining why that one is a red herring in this particular time and space.
no sense reasoning with those behaving unreasonably and this seems like a discussion that could be overheard at a junior high school.
a critical but more mature approach to whatever problems you and the posters here have with the `terrorists’ and `retards’ might just be an interesting and informative as well as `fair’ fight.
if those who want to cite penn and teller’s ridiculously illogical calling `bs’ on peta as a useful source, the ensuing level of discourse is likely to make more friends than enemies for those who are making assumptions that can’t be factually or logically defended because they are either untrue or `supported’ mostly to to the type of knee jerk willingness to believe any source propping up one’s already deeply held hatred.
the penn and teller skit is the kind of crap that is so carelessly assumptive it would be fun to debunk if it wasn’t so easy.
some folks who have an ethical concern for animals other than people are way smart include a few of them here for balance and it might get worthwhile.
They’re all welcome here, as long as they don’t take themselves too seriously. Writing in actual sentences helps too.
I’m a member of PETA.
People Eating Tasty Animals, that is!
Heh (just kidding).
Know what really needs to be done? We need to get rid of all the humans. They’re the ones that are causing all the problems, so let’s just round ‘em all up and gas ‘em. Or shoot ‘em. You know, whatever it is they do with livestock.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to grab a mop and clean up the sarcasm I dripped all over the floor.
(I say do it: hypocrisy needs to be publicized, always.)
I’m a proud member of PETA.
People Eating Tasty Animals!
Ashley Byrne needs to find something else to do besides throwing little baby temper tantrums when people don’t do drop what they’re doing and focus on what she thinks is right for the world. Her latest stunt where she asked Ben and Jerry’s to use human breast milk in their ice cream instead of cow’s milk because it’s “cruel” to cows is completely INSANE babble. Cows have been milked for centuries lady.. She needs to take up cross stitch or Russian Roulette, because frankly.. and I doubt I’m alone here.. I’m sick of looking at and listening to this crazy bitch!