Yeah, I was wondering about that when I wrote it... my bad.
Nevertheless, I don't feel that we need to be treating flies ethically.
I don't hate'em but they sure are retarded. It gets them publicity, there was some other really stupid thing they got airtime over, a year back maybe. I'll have to look it up b/c it was actually pretty decent marketing.
They ran newspaper ads several years ago now when Robert Pickton was arrested near Vancouver for the killing of 26 prostitutes. He confessed to 49 killings in all. Pickton kept a number of pigs on his property so he was referred to time and time again as a pig farmer.
PeTA ran ads that compared the serial killer Pickton to the "serial killing" that goes on every day in pig slaughterhouses.
From CTV.ca...
"One section of the ad that was to have run Thursday, reads: "They were drugged and dragged across the room... Their struggles and cries went unanswered... They were slaughtered and their heads sawed off... Their body parts were refrigerated... Their bones were discarded." It's thought the PETA campaign was intended to coincide with Pickton's preliminary hearing, which had been scheduled for Monday but has been put on hold.
Pickton is not mentioned by name in the ad but he is mentioned in a news release issued by PETA.
"PETA has just released a print ad that illustrates the well-established connection between animal abuse and acts of severe violence against people, and compares what is done to animals on factory farms and slaughterhouses to the ways in which accused serial killer Robert William Pickton apparently dealt with his human victims," says the press release.
"PETA believes that Pickton’s job as a pig killer could easily have numbed him to the cries of animals who felt his knife," the release continues.
The group says the ad is similar to one that PETA ran in the Des Moines [Iowa] Register a decade ago during convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s trial.
Family of victims are disgusted by the association.
"All they're talking about is the pain of the animals, they don't care about the pain of the families," said Laurie Isberg. "They're torturing us. They're torturing us like they say everybody tortures animals."
"The parallels in this case are very clear," said PETA spokesman Andrew Butler. "What happened to the unfortunate victims of this crime are happening every single day in pig farms around the world where animals are routinely mutilated."
How completely fucked up is that?