Our friends at PETA are so cute and perky, aren’t they? Here’s an adorable little nugget — excuse the term! — from their blog a few weeks ago:
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m stoked for the new Harry Potter movie! The movies are getting darker and darker, and I gotta say that I don’t think Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will disappoint.
Not surprisingly, the “I Am Not a Nugget” chick always wants to be all up in everything (seriously, it’s difficult to get work done sometimes), so we created a banner to make sure everyone knows that chickens aren’t nuggets, but they aren’t muggles either!
How adorable. Yep, the Harry Potter movies are a great way to tell people how to treat animals.
Except wait, no they’re not. The popularity of the series has in turn made owls more popular as pets. But should they be? When the first movie came out, National Geographic noted:
Several groups in the United Kingdom have voiced concern about the potential welfare of owls given as gifts this holiday season.
They fear that when people realize the difficulty of keeping an owl as a pet, the raptors — known to be temperamental — will be abandoned to a barn or released into the outdoors where they most likely will starve to death…
“The snowy owl is featured in this particular movie. We understand that Harry Potter keeps it in a parrot cage, which is against everything we know,” said Jenny Thurston, a trustee at the World Owl Trust at Muncaster Castle near the village of Ravenglass, England. “That is horrendous. It will foul up people’s imagination…
“To keep [a snowy owl] correctly, you need the biggest aviary you could ever build,” said Thurston. “It is a big heavy bird, and in the wild it would fly for miles. We are talking an aviary of a minimum 20 to 30 feet (six to nine meters) long and as deep as you could make it and at least ten feet (three meters) high.”
This is why it’s illegal to own an owl as a pet in the U.S., but it’s still legal in the UK. So PETA, which is outraged at people feeding their families with chicken, is just fine with owls being mistreated. In fact, they’re encouraging you to go see it!
Sorry, Mr. Owl, no PETA picket lines for you. You’re not as important as those other animals. You’re just another corpse in the Piggly Wiggly dumpster.
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I wish the people who give money to PETA would wake up and realize they don’t give a damn about animals, all they care about is staging ever more ridiculous stunts to improve their fundraising.
Um, did PETA not read what happened to Hedwig in the first chapter of the last book? And they are ok with a wild raptor being kept in an aviary? Where’s the outrage?
If you are expecting any sort of logic from the folks at PETA then expect to be disappointed.
peta is nuts… but it’s a leap to say that recommending the movie is tantamount to encouraging people to get a pet owl (however the heck you do that anyway.
Egad! Did you see some of those pictures at the peta2 thing? Going to those meetings must be like walking into latfh.com come to life.
And if I had a pet owl I’d make it wear one of those graduation hats, and eat nothing but lollipops. HAHA good story Pastafarian!
Pasta, I’m gonna mail you a pie or something. That was an AWESOME visual.
Pie? For that one Pasta ought to score a nice big thick steak……LOL
Yay for using my tip!
But seriously, peta really should just stop being so silly and make its mind up!
I’m for animal rights, but it’s ridiculous to expect me to support this charity when they’re just so hypocritical.
Is one of Michael Jackson’s kids Indian? In this picture he certainly seems so:
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/MichaelJackson/popup?id=8026078&contentIndex=1&page=1&start=false
In another, he almost appears digitally altered to make it appear he resembles Michael Jackson:
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/MichaelJackson/popup?id=8026078&contentIndex=1&page=2&start=false
Another image of blanket:
http://i27.tinypic.com/s3kgnb.jpg
Anything with PETA in it makes me very upset.
Long time lurker, first time poster.
Not that I expect anything resembling logic from the PeTArds, but one of the photos on the PeTA2 site features a man signing the petition against chicken nuggets. He’s sitting on one of those old overstuffed leather couches.
The hypocrisy of these people just blow me away.
Why can’t PETA do something useful and work to ban owls as pets in the UK? Oh, right…because PETA is all about publicity and wouldn’t recognize “useful” if it bit them in the…owl.
MC Mom, better yet – why don’t they take up the horrible platform of unnecessary killing of dogs? Oh, wait… I get it
Stupid PETA
Clearly PETA has not paid any attention to the Harry Potter books and films much. Let’s see, Harry kills a big evil snake, another snake is killed epically, and animals are turned into inanimate objects. Wouldn’t the PETArds be against that?
TheRose, I’ve seen PETArds heckled for showing up to peterrorist events in leather-upholstered SUVs. What you describe sounds similar, except for the unfortunate absence of hecklers.
PETA are a bunch of deranged idiots so stuck out in the middle of down town STUPID CITY their a bigger threat to the animals they are animal abusers even while PETA blabbers about COMPASSION they have killed 95% of the animals they adopted do you call that COMPASSION?