^^^...All I read was blah blah blah blah. They're mistaken. In now way should they be trying to compare the enslavement of a ethnic group with the using of animals. I mean, c'mon. What next, vegetables?
^Bull! You can tell it's a template and they send that to every person that had something to say about it.
I feel like my heritage is being used and exploited.
I believe that the butchering and maiming of these animals supercedes the horrible comparison to slavery. It's a terrible comparison and I have already wrote a letter of disapproval.
But that doesn't change the fact animal cruelty is still going on. Sad.
I mean, just sit down and really think about it. If these animals could speak for themselves; this would be a far worse travesty than all human slavery combined.
:x I'm just disgusted. How can PETA think they are justified in comparing the slaughter and enslavement of animals, to that of black people. Back in the day, those animals were treated better than black people. :x
PETA Rethinks Ads Comparing Abuse, Slavery
By DIONNE WALKER, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 11 minutes ago
RICHMOND, Va. - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is reconsidering a campaign comparing images of animal abuse with those of slavery after complaints from civil rights groups and others.
The animal rights group's "Animal Liberation" campaign included 12 panels juxtaposing pictures of black people in chains with shackled elephants and other provocative images.
The Norfolk-based group wrapped up the first leg of the tour in Washington on Thursday, visiting 17 cities before deciding to put the tour on hold.
"We're not continuing right now while we evaluate," said Dawn Carr, a PETA spokeswoman. "We're reviewing feedback we've received — most of it overwhelmingly positive and some of it quite negative."
One panel showed a black civil rights protester being beaten at a lunch counter beside a photo of a seal being bludgeoned. Another panel, titled "Hanging," showed a graphic photo of a white mob surrounding two lynched blacks, their bodies hanging from tree limbs, while a nearby picture showed a cow hanging in a slaughterhouse.
Controversy erupted Aug. 8, when the display was in New Haven, Conn.
"There was one man who began shouting that the exhibit was racist," Carr said. "Then, there was a lot of shouting."
Carr said PETA used the shocking images to prove a point: Whether it's humans harming animals or each other, all point to an oppressive mind-set.
However, officials with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People aren't buying it.
"PETA operates by getting publicity any way they can," said John White, an NAACP spokesman. "They're comparing chickens to black people?"
Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project with the Southern Poverty Law Center, in Montgomery, Ala., called the exhibit "disgusting."
"Black people in America have had quite enough of being compared to animals without PETA joining in," he said.
PETA officials apologized earlier this year for a campaign that compared the suffering of Jews during the Holocaust with that of factory animals.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050813/ap_on_...s/peta_campaign
I mean, just sit down and really think about it. If these animals could speak for themselves; this would be a far worse travesty than all human slavery combined.
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COSIGN %100
Thing is, when we say, bring the **** towards a chicken and they know we're bout to cut its head off, the other chickens next to it can actually understand what the chicken is saying when it screams.
This is pretty much like that old saying:
"If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?"
Watch the slide show yourself:
