...is the Pet Shop Boys. Apparently PETA sent them an open letter telling them to change their name to "Rescue Shelter Boys" for the following reason:



http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/0 ... index.html

I think the Pet Shop Boys should send PETA an open letter saying they're considering changing their name to "SHUT THE FUCK UP, PETA, AND LEAVE US ALONE!"

But they were very nice to post PETA's letter on their blog.

-- Nephele, wandering off to the kitchen to make herself a "sea kitten" sandwich...

I'm for animal welfare/some rights issues.

But PETA is so lame.

I dislike cruelty to animals.

Human beings are animals.

PETA is cruel to human animals.

I dislike PETA.

-- Nephele

I hate that group. If I hear about the group Pet Shop Boys I certainly don't think of Pets.

The people at PETA are f**king nuts. I mean Im all for treating animals humainely but they go way overboard.

It's funny. Most people I know care about animal welfare to one degree or another, but I've never met a single person who likes PETA.

No, take that back, I knew one guy in college who did, but he was nuts.

Still, I can't think of any other advocacy group which takes what should be an unimpeachable position ("for the ethical treatment of animals"...hard to argue with that) and still manages to make the overwhelming majority of the population hate them. It'd be like me founding "people for the consumption of chocolate" yet managing to be pelted with garbage each time I went out in public. It takes talent.

I was going to say it'd be like hating a group named "the society for starving kitten rescue" and then realised it would be somewhat redundant.... *sigh*

I went to an ultra-liberal liberal arts college which was famous for having some very outspoken and flamboyant "smelly hippies", and even we regarded PETA as the lowest of the low. While I was there, things got to the point where we actively discouraged these people from showing up at any of our protests or lectures--even when animal rights, vegetarianism/veganism, or sustainable farming was the issue we were promoting. They offended us, and it took a lot to do that.

Basically the problem was they were hurtful, spiteful, obnoxious, and had zero sense of humor about anything. You couldn't win with them either, since no matter what they did or why you called them out, you were the one being a close-minded asshole.

As for the topic on hand, I'd like to see the Pet Shop Boys give them a flying "Fuck You!!!", but I'm pretty sure it'd just stir up a pointless shit storm that would be more annoying than amusing.

Also, I'm pretty sure the Pet Shop Boys are pretty active in the gay scene, so I think we can forgive them for not overloading their charity card with another cause.

It grieves me that Pamela Anderson is a major spokesperson for PETA, and Bill Maher is a board member of PETA.

-- Nephele

PETA and other extreme activists/eco-terrorists make the logical environmentalists look like nut jobs. I'm not going through with this degree only to be looked upon as some pyscho-hippie lady and for people to totally look past my words.

If you don't want people to buy fur coats, don't throw red paint on them AND the coat. You just made the deaths of hundreds of chinchillas useless by making the coat itself completely worthless, and made the buyer just buy another coat.

This is another reason why people don't take environmentalism seriously.

Yeah I dislike how they try to push celebrities as spokes people and role models for animal rights. In my experience all that does is make trendy people follow the cause for a while if only because they see it as a 'fad' and not a serious and deeply important issue. To be an animal rights/enviromentalist is a good thing, but it should be done for the right reasons; reasons which the individual has come to accept as important to them for their own moral standpoint, not because some celebrity they like said they should follow the cause.

^^^



--Janeane Garofolo in Team America: World Police. Kind of hit the nail on the head, didn't it?

Ah, the PETA fiends. They make we sane vegetarians look bad.

I agree, the GENERAL causes they fight for are good, but they really must settle down. I went lacto-ovo veg last August for my health and the ethics. Every pound of meat I ate started to look like ten hungry children and I just couldn't do it anymore. Also, I saw no point in killing the animal for food if I didn't have to. It was wasteful.

Apparently, though, I am not doing enough for PETA. I still consume animal byproducts (eggs from a local free-range chicken lover that I know and dairy because after a decade of lactose-intolerance going veg somehow lets me digest milk) and wear leather (I have yet to find a suitable substitute: pleather's even worse for the environment than cattle.). Also, I should have fought with my fiance until I forced him to make a choice that I didn't ask his opinion on in the first place.

I don't get it. Smaller changes are just as good as larger ones, and most of the animal products I use come from ethical sources anyway. Grrrr.

Okay, rant over. Carry on.

My issues with PETA are less about them being stark raving mental and more to do with their sickening hypocrisy, with the prime example being the giant walk-in freezer they have at their headquarters in Virginia. It's where the bodies of the animals they've put down are stored before being cremated. Of the 2216 animals PETA took into it's "care" in 2008, they found homes for only 7 of them. Since 1998, PETA has opted to put down over 21,000 adoptable dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens instead of finding homes for them.

Maybe the legal defence of Animal Liberation Front members is really eating into their $32 million annual budget.

Anyhow, good on the Pet Shop Boys for refusing to consider such a blatantly ludicrous proposal while still being polite about it.

- trag