"Feeding Kids Meat is Child Abuse"

[Canid117]

PETA kills more animals than most kennels and pet establishments, you know.

..Care to explain how?

They Euthanize a much higher percentage of the animals they "save" than most animal rescue organizations such as the humane society. The kicker is; they regularly protest these organizations for killing animals.

 

[Sandytimeman]

Yeah, I hate PETA. Bunch of hypocrites and terrorists, I'm an animal lover but I'd never do anything PETA says.

If humans weren't meant to eat meat we wouldn't be able to digest it. If they are wanting to dissuade the factory farms on Chickens, Pigs, and such they should use their star power and budget more effectively and make a big name documentary on it.

Personally its the conditions of the these factory farms that almost makes me stop eating meat. Almost.

 

[HentMas]

Then I'm one abused child.

Also, this.

O MY GOD...

I HAVE TO MAKE THAT

ITS GODLY!!!

I JUST NEED TO MAKE ONE OF THOSE

GOD DAMN

 

[SteewpidZombie]

I've decided to compose a song about PETA (Kinda lame, but it sums up how they tick me off)



Oh PETA we eat'a the animals you love
We gut them and wear their skin as a glove!
Since our grand forefather
Eating meat just ain't no bother
We string up those lovely cattle
While you just annoy us with your prattle!
Why can't we consume our tasty meat?
Cause it's all we love to eat!
Oh PETA just leave us alone!
Oh PETA just leave us alone!


We could've found those pets a good home!
Yet PETA couldn't leave them alone!
Oh PETA just leave us alone!


I don't want your bland plants
You scrawny lil'ants!
We've always enjoyed food
It's always been good
Yet you people just can't leave us alone
Please quit phoning my home!
While I may not be cruel
I ain't nobodies fool
Just let me eat my delicious meat
Or it's my fist your will meet!
Oh PETA just leave us alone!
Oh PETA just leave us alone!

 

[Jordan Snidal]

lets forget the animal killing and all the other shit that people say about peta all the time like how they support A.L.F which is a terrorist organization. any organization that uses the word ETHICAL in its name is automatically invalidated from having any opinion that should be taken seriously. ethics are a principal meant for debate and discussion, they are not a one size fits all shirt. each person needs to develop their own sense of right and wrong or else they will become indoctrinated asshole who never does any research and look only at a small percentage of the information available

 

[Shakespeario]

Occasionally, somebody chooses to 'save' their child from the horrors of eating animal products. Then you hear about a malnourished baby dying because they've been fed soy. Some anemic child going iron supplements and getting ulcers on his kidneys from all the pills because their parents decided they shouldn't eat meat. Human beings are omnivores by nature that means we have evolved to eat everything. Now while we've progressed technologically we have not undone our nature- while we can with pills circumvent our nature as children we are simply too new to the world. We can't handle that yet. It simply safe.

Forcing a child to do something before he/she is ready is endangering the child. Needlessly putting a child in danger is inherently abusive. It's a bloody child not a poster child for ones political leanings.

 

[TiefBlau]

Yep, the only humane way to raise your kids is on a vegan diet.

Have fun getting osteoporosis at age 30, kids.

 

[Jordan Snidal]

meth is bad for you even in moderation

 

[BoredDragon]

That poster is the funniest thing I've seen today lol

 

[Wayneguard]

I read the title as "feeding kids metal is child abuse"... I was all set to come in here with a giant no shit. Then i learnt 2 reed >_>

 

[annilator666]

the next time im enjoying a nice thick cut prime rib steak ill devote it to PETA

 

[MadCapMunchkin]

Then I have abused children for 20 years and I see absolutely no reason to stop...

PETA kills more animals than most kennels and pet establishments, you know.

really? I thought they loved their animals :s

http://www.newsweek.com/2008/04/27/peta-and-euthanasia.html

[tt]The organization has practiced euthanasia for years. Since 1998 PETA has killed more than 17,000 animals, nearly 85 percent of all those it has rescued.[/tt]

Well I just learned something...didnt see that coming...

Ditto. Holy crap!

 

[jackknife402]

PETA kills more animals than most kennels and pet establishments, you know.

..Care to explain how?

I forget the exact statistic, but they've run a stat on how many animals they "save" that end up being euthanized, it was somewhere around 85%.

 

[Idocreating]

Meat is murder. Sweet, sweet, delicious murder.

We evolved to become carnivores, not herbivores. It's not an opinion: It's SCIENCE.

Humans are Omnivores. They'll eat meat, veg or both.

 

[Ambi]

1) I never said anything about "can't obtain," but you have to choose your foods very carefully to get enough proteins, amino acids, iron, b12, and a few others. It's not impossible, but it's not super easy either.

2) Fiber has many health benefits that's true, so does protein. Meat isn't all high fat either. beef is, but poultry, fish, and a few other sources are very lean. Never said you couldn't get protein as a vegetarian, just said it was harder.

You seem to be under the impression that I'm saying being a vegitarian is bad, i'm not. I'm just saying that there is nothing unhealthy about meat. It was also mentioned that they put the billboard up to fight obesity and most of obesity, at least where I'm from, is due to all the carbs we eat in things like bread, not meat. I've yet to meet a significantly obese person who got that way by eating too much steak.

Sorry I misconstrued what you said. I'm just in the habit of being defensive about this. I agree that vegetarians do have to be careful, i.e. they can't just eat whatever they feel like all the time if it's the fattening carbs and sugar you mentioned.

I still don't think it's as hard to obtain enough protein, vitamins, and minerals without meat and supplements as you make it out to be, however. It's not very hard to consume eggs, cheese, and fortified soy milk for protein, B12, and amino acids, or to top cereal with crushed linseed or eat almonds and walnuts for essential fatty acids, or to consume plenty of food rich in vitamin C to increase non-heme (plant-derived) iron absorption.

Regarding the claim that eating meat helps people to consume less calories, one could just as easily eat vegetarian sources of protein and fibre that are less calorie-dense than meat to feel fuller for longer, but I guess what makes you feel full enough is partially subjective.

 

[EllEzDee]

Is it really that hard to just ignore this shit rather than talk crap about vegetarians.

Oh fuck, freedom of speech, how dare they say something like that...

 

[Soviet Steve]

There are environmental, health and financial reasons to reduce the amount of meat you consume as an adult, I'm sure, but to eliminate meat from the child's diet is a very dangerous and unnecessary step.

 

[DanDeFool]

Spoiler: snip

but who's to say what's false? By what method is the government to determine the truth or falsity of a statement? Would every bit of false information have to go through something like a court process?

The reason you can't say "Fire!" in a cinema, is because it disrupts people from watching the movie, which is bad for business. The Cinema puts in that rule in order to prevent loss of business. However, this isn't a restriction of freedom of speech, because its the Cinema enforcing this rule, not the government.

Well, no, not really.

The reason you can't say "Fire!" in a cinema (assuming there is no fire, of course) is because it would needlessly cause a hasty evacuation of a crowded building, during which people could get hurt, it would result in emergency services reporting to the scene, possibly diverting their attention from actual emergencies, and also would be needlessly harming the cinema's business.

In this case, PETA is harming consumers because it's blaming meat consumption for obesity, when the consumption of refined sugars and processed grains is a bigger part of the obesity problem. If you ate lots of Twinkies, snack chips, and white bread, you would still get fat; eating meat is not the only cause of the obesity problem.

And to what end is PETA promoting this incorrect viewpoint?

At the end of the day, PETA isn't interested in your health. They're interested in the well-being of animals, and you can go 'eff yourself as far as PETA is concerned. This is why governments are censoring these false advertisements.

It's not wrong to be concerned about the ethical treatment of animals, but lying to people is not the way to achieve that goal. If anything, this kind of stuff galvanizes the average person AGAINST PETA, and why not? If they're going to skew the facts to promote their own agenda, we shouldn't be rewarding them with our attention.

ok, you are right. However, I don't think they're harming consumers.

Yeah, not really. But I think it's nice that the government isn't cool with spreading misinformation through the use of advertisements.

... unless there's an election going on. :/

 

[justnotcricket]

PETA are extremists. I thought we all knew this?

If they object to meat because it means killing animals, why aren't they opposed to every carnivorous animal on the planet? I agree that the ill-treatment of livestock is bad, and in the end doesn't even make for a better meat products, but if they even object to truly free-range, truly organic stuff then they must have a beef (no pun intended, urgh...) with animal domestication...which is one of the few advances that truly stands between humanity and the its prehistoric origins. And in any case, when prehistoric man actually got access to real meat, you can bet he didn't turn his/ her nose up at it. Quite the contrary.

Wow...I wandered off topic...

Tl,dr: PETA are extremists, as usual. Excuse me while I struggle to take this with the MASSIVE grain of salt it requires.