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California Patriot reports how hilarity ensued after the latest PETA shenanigans (hat tip: Shy Guy).

Students from PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, drew an angry crowd on Sproul after displaying images that compared animal treatment to the lynching and enslavement of black Americans. About a dozen Berkeley students furiously engaged the PETA members, accusing the animal rights group of racism. The situation intensified when one member of the crowd threw ketchup and mustard on the PETA display and another tore down part of the exhibit.

One image presented by PETA featured a chained elephant foot juxtaposed with the chained foot of a slave. Another showed black individuals hanging from a tree by their necks contrasted with the image of a cow being hung by its hind legs. Several black students shouted down the PETA students and called for the display to be taken down. One student who was upset by PETA’s comparison of slavery to animal mistreatment shouted amid tears, “I’m not trying to say that people should eat meat. I understand you, but the way you’re depicting our history, the way you are depicting the things that happened to us, the thing that happened to our ancestors, it‚Äôs not ok, it’s not ok!”

Another student, identified as Autumn by her peers, tore down one of the images in a fit of rage. Dominique Nisperos, a third year Cal student, was also upset by PETA’s display and argued with one of the group‚Äôs members. When asked if tearing down the display was appropriate on a campus that touts its free speech history, Nisperos responded, “I can see why they did it.” She added that bringing up the free speech issue “isn’t getting to the root of the problem. The means at expressing [PETA's] message was racist.” Veronica Nisperos, a Berkeley student also incensed by the exhibit, stated that the group did have a point, but the way in which they made it, “created opposition among people who should be allies.”

You would think that PETA would have learned their lesson about the offence caused by such comparisons, especially after the disturbing Holocaust on a Plate campaign. But evidently, learning from their mistakes is not on PETA’s agenda.

Sengeeta Kumar, who led the PETA group, was surprised to have encountered such a reaction at UC Berkeley. “I was really hoping that people would think critically‚Ķit became very emotional and almost dangerous in the sense that people were threatening and pulling things down and it just became unsafe,” she said. Kumar noted that her group has taken the exhibit to 13 different schools and never faced a hostile reaction.

PETA eventually gave into the pressure and dismantled their display. Kumar expressed disappointment in her organization‚Äôs inability to get their message across. “When emotions are risen, people can be closed to dialogue.” She added, “We are all part of oppression, of beings who can’t speak for themselves. Animals are enslaved in our hands. This exhibit isn’t about demeaning any people, it about uplifting humanity.”

PETA members spent the rest of the afternoon wiping off the ketchup and mustard that was sprayed on their display.

Jay-Z was not available for comment.

The clowns of PETA have visited a circus to protest animal abuse, and, according to their blog, really made an impact. For instance, here is a description of “one of the best moments of the night.”

One of the best moments of the night was a conversation between Ingrid and a woman who rolled down her window:

Woman: I love Ringling!
Ingrid: Why?
Woman: I don’t know.
Ingrid: You know they beat the elephants?
Woman: Oh.
Ingrid: Watch the video online at Circuses.com.
Woman: Thank you. I will. Try to keep warm.

I don’t get it. The woman just rolls down her window and says “I love Ringling!”?! Who does that?? Then when asked why, she says “I don’t know”?! Sounds kind of weird to me. And even if it did happen this way, it sounds more like the woman is just trying to get away from these nutcases, and so she tells them what they want to hear.

Of course, no PETA protest would be complete without some dirty tactic.

Clowns and carnies should stick to beating and shocking each other rather than animals. I guess they’re too busy being pedophiles for that, though.

Which reminds me of a verse from that famous Pink Floyd song Another Brick in the Wall: Hey, PETA!, Leave those clowns alone!

Now don’t get me wrong. I am against animal abuse But I am equally against placing animal rights above those of humans, as well as using dirty tactics to make your point. I therefore ask that you support Meryl’s Fourth Annual Intl. Eat a Tasty Animal for PETA Day, which is slated for March 15th (which also happens to be my birthday).

Day after day after day we are bombarded with stories from all around the world of another case of bird flu being confirmed. People are in an uproar, because *gasp* birds who are raised in filthy, cramped sheds and treated like shit their entire lives carry diseases. Who would have thought? Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t think anyone who has contracted the horrible disease “deserves what they got”, but you have to admit that it’s justice for animals that was a long time coming. The universe has a way of balancing things out, ya know? The U.S. alone tortures and murders 27 billion animals every year for food. Try to wrap your head around that number for a second. In comparison, only about 524,000 people have died of AIDS in the U.S. since the disease broke out decades ago. If you can’t do the math, let me help you: that many animals are killed every 10 minutes. Experts have estimated that as many as 150 million people could die within years of bird flu once it reaches pandemic level (yes, it’s a when, not an if). That still won’t touch the number of deaths we as humans have caused and continue to cause, but it certainly is a step toward evening the scale. To all of you who still eat flesh, you can make all the excuses you want to not go vegetarian now, but there will come a time soon when you won’t have a choice.

Michael Jackson is being accused of cruelty.

 

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals told the US Agriculture Department he has been neglecting giraffes, elephants and crocodiles at his Neverland estate.

Bubbles was reportedly rescued by Michael Jackson from a cancer research facility in Texas in 1985 and for the next decade appeared at Michael’s side, often in matching outfits.

 

Living with Michael Jackson meant that Bubble’s existence was unique, unusual and rarely out of the public eye. USA Today once claimed the cheeky monkey had his own bodyguard and, on Jackson’s insistence, attended recording sessions for the album, Bad.

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Outtakes from Martin Bashir’s documentary, Living With Michael Jackson, shown to the jury in the current trial revealed that Bubbles would go to the toilet by himself in Michael’s private bathroom, knew how to eat with cutlery and was made to wear a diaper around the Neverland Ranch.

 

Jackson was also seen admitting that he’d considered hosting a celebrity animal party for Bubbles with the likes of Lassie, Benji and Cheeta from the Tarzan films. Not that Bubbles didn’t come into contact with celebrities of a human kind.

Actor Corey Feldman admitted in an interview, “I met Bubbles and all kinds of chimps.”

 

Feldman could well have been referring to the chimps Jacko admitted employing to clean the Neverland ranch. The revelation that monkeys were made to dust, clean windows and clean toilets was unveiled to the jury in excerpts from Bashir’s documentary. Jacko explained, “They are very smart. Their DNA is identical to humans when you look under a microscope.”

It’s not known whether Bubbles was made to earn his keep in such a manner. What is known though is that Jackson’s relationship with Bubbles soured as the chimp grew older. A former maid of Jackson’s testifying at the trial admitted that Bubbles had bitten her twice and Chris Ayres reported in The Times that Bubble’s ex-keeper had admitted Bubbles had been made to leave Neverland after becoming violent. Further testimony at the current trial revealed that Bubbles was replaced with a chimp called Max.

Sources told me last year that Bubbles the Chimp, Michael’s most famous non-human friend, died from neglect.

Pamela Anderson is leading a charge to remove a bust of KFC founder Colonel Harland Sanders from the state Capitol.

 

The actress called the Kentucky native’s likeness “a monument to cruelty” to chickens in a statement issued by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the animal rights group.

Animal rights activists will reportedly go naked outside five Australian embassies around the world in a bid to force Australian sheep farmers to stop a controversial farming practice.

 

The US-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said demonstrations would be held outside Australian missions in Washington, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and Sao Paulo.

 

The action is aimed at stopping the practice of mulesing, in which slices of flesh are cut from the rear ends of lambs to prevent flystrike or the infestation of flesh-eating maggots.

 

“We don’t mind showing a little of our behinds if it will save lambs from having chunks of flesh hacked off of theirs,” US-based PETA campaigner Matt Rice told the Australian national news service AAP from the United States.

 

PETA suspended the campaign last month but is now resuming it after Australia’s major wool producing groups did not agree to ban mulesing by 2010.

 

Rice said eight naked PETA protestors would appear at Canberra’s Washington embassy on Tuesday painted in the colours of the Australian flag.

 

“We will take the protest around the world in an effort to alert the world to the cruelty that goes on Down Under,” he said.

 

PETA’s call to boycott Australian wool has won support from retailers such as Timberland and Abercrombie and Fitch, as well as rock star Chrissie Hynde and Hollywood’s Alicia Silverstone.

Pamela Anderson has slammed Jennifer Lopez for wearing fur, calling the Latin diva an “idiot”.

“They look really immature and unenlightened. Every season the furriers put propaganda everywhere that fur is taking off again and they give free coats to idiots like Jennifer Lopez and Puff Daddy,” she said before adding it made her feel “nauseous”.

Speaking to US women’s mag Jane, the former Baywatch Babe didn’t hold back, saying people who wear fur look fat and gross and smell like a wet dog.

Jennifer Lopez has been named as a target for animal rights campaigners thanks to her controversial taste for wearing real fur. People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) label the star an “apathetic fur hag” and have issued a chilling warning - they will be waiting for her at public and US television appearances. PETA’s vice president Dan Mathews tells Page Six.Com, “PETA has her in our sights. On April 29, we’ll be waiting for her outside Jay Leno’s Tonight show studios at 4pm with a 30 foot inflatable beaver with a banner saying, ‘Fur - Leave it to Beaver.’

While the results of the research are preliminary, scientists at the Diminutive Male Genitalia Disorder Research Organization have discovered a genetic link between small penis size and the thrill of the hunt. The organization recently began to tabulate data from a two-year study of men with Diminutive Male Genitalia Disorder (DMGD) and has posted the results on its Web site, DMGD.org.

 

The subjects of the study varied from men with a slight abnormality in penis size to men with pubis innius, a term for an inverted male pubic region. By tracing what has been identified as the “DMGD gene,” an abnormality in the 21st chromosome was discovered. Researchers found that this abnormality appears to be consistently linked to two traits: abnormally small male reproductive organs and the ability to derive joy from killing, which starts with hunting small game and, in isolated instances, can manifest itself in homicidal acts. Research team leader Dr. Brian Upchurch and his colleagues in New Orleans, La., plan to investigate whether DMGD was a factor in the 2004 Sawyer County, Wis., incident in which a deer hunter went on a rampage and killed six other hunters.

 

“These findings confirm what we have believed for a long time: Hunters just don’t measure up,” says PETA’s Justin Jest. “They are apparently overcompensating for their failure to hit the mark in the bedroom by blowing small animals away in the woods.”

 

PETA intends to incorporate the findings of the study into campaign materials to combat hunting.

From the PETA Media Center:

PETA recommends animal hoarder get psychiatric aid

An animal rights group is recommending that an Anchorage woman accused of neglecting more than 100 cats in her home get psychiatric help if convicted of animal cruelty.

Yes, we all agree that animal cruelty is bad. But anyone who is willing to either overlook cruelty to humans, or actually advocate cruelty to humans in order to prevent cruelty to animals, is in even more desperate need of psychiatric help.

Take our friend Bruce from PETA. You may recall my email exchange with him, in which he justified PETA’s tactics of using the Holocaust comparisons, and overlooking the slaughter of Israelis to appeal to Arafat. Well, that was apparently the tip of the mental insanity iceberg. Here is more on his tactics:

• He has openly advocated violence to achieve animal liberation. Click here and hear it with your own ears.
• He spent a year in prison for attacking an Air Force fighter plane with a hammer
• Proclaimed that mass murderer Timothy McVeigh’s decision to abstain from meat “groups him with some of the world’s greatest visionaries, including Albert Schweitzer, Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy and Albert Einstein.”
• Believes that sport hunters should be viewed “with the same revulsion we presently reserve for Nazi doctors and slave traders.”

Unfortunately, he is not alone. PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk, who penned the Arafat letter, also clearly has a kangaroo loose in the top paddock. Consider these quotes of hers:

On animal testing and AIDS:

“Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we’d be against it.”

On violent tactics:

“Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.”

“[People] need to understand that if they support the torture and misuse of other animals they will be made to pay. The animals are defenseless. They can’t fight back. But we can. And, no matter what it takes, we always will.”

On her last will and testament:

“That the meat of my body, or a portion thereof, be used for a human barbeque…my skin, or a portion thereof, be removed and made into leather products…my feet be removed and umbrella strands or other ornamentation be made from them…my eyes be removed, mounted and delivered to the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency…”

On Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Colonel Sanders:

“Why not find out when his birthday is, call the newspapers, and go dance on his grave?”

On her purpose in life..and after life:

“I am just trying to make the best case for animals. That is clearly what I was put on this earth to do. Even after I am gone, I will try to continue.”

On having children:

“I am not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.”

Compared to these two, the Anchorage cat lady seems mentally stable.