Since Matt wrote that he hadn't verified the comic book and the website - and, like him, I was hoping it was fake - I went to the site http://www.fishinghurts.com/ that's listed on the cover of the comic. Lo and behold, there was the "comic book." The site is pretty amazing and almost a parody of whacko animal-rightists, so I checked out the registry of the website and it indeed is owned by PETA, registered through their corporate HQ in Virginia.
And yes, they really did distribute those comic books to little kids – targeting families out fishing together, specifically. Can you imagine what you’d do if some PETA-whacko approached you and your kids and handed them this comic book? Here's a quote from PETA's own site about the content of the comic:
Children will read: ‘Imagine that a man dangles a piece of candy in front of you. ... As you grab the candy, a huge metal hook stabs through your hand and you’re ripped off the ground. You fight to get away, but it doesn’t do any good... That would be an awful trick to play on someone, wouldn’t it?’
I knew PETA was bad, but I guess I really didn't realize how bad - I guess I'm sheltered! The sites on PETA's own links page (Other PETA Sites) are so awful that I had a hard time believing they weren't spoofs....sad to say they are not. Here's the link, but it's not worksafe unless you work at home, because you'll be ranting and raving for sure: http://www.peta.org/other.asp
If you choose to browse any of the sites you will note with interest that each and every one, prominently displayed amidst the hysterical posturing, are DONATE TO PETA NOW! buttons.
But of course. Like the Humane Society of the United States which raises millions of dollars fighting hunting worldwide, their “work” is big business (by the way, HSUS has just successfully pressured President Kibaki in Kenya to kill an extremely important bill that would have allowed local farmers to receive fair compensation for crop damage and loss of life – as in people stomped to death by elephants or hippos – mind you, interferring with democracy in another country which sorely needs it, only because the bill MIGHT have opened the door to reinstate culling in a country that actually needs it). Ultimately it’s not about animals, it’s about money and power.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you!
Roseann Hanson
http://www.JandRHanson.com
1 comment:
how godly and goodly it is to eat meat.
It’s clear to me that the more morally admirable thing to do is to eat as much meat as possible, and cause as many cows, pigs, chickens, et c to be brought into this world as possible. Sure they’ll be killed and eaten, but it is not as thought we go out seeking them out, and kill them until they diminish, we giveth them life, and so we taketh it away, but if there was no demand for it to be taken away and give us some food, it would not be giveth. Maybe I would sympathize with the poor animals born to die, but for the fact that I empathize too much. But maybe I’m wrong, I am after all one of those who is glad the apple was eaten at the dawn of time, 6,000 years ago.
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