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PETA's at it again: Bashing Canada

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PETA has gotten more and more crazy. They used to just be about treating animals humanely, but it's expanding into everything now. They're looking for anything big to grab attention, find some sort of tenuous connection with their own issue, and then go completely overboard in attacking everything associated with the party they allege is being cruel to animals.

Actually, they aren't that far from Fred Phelps/Westboro Baptist territory.
 
I'm a big fan of animals. I think clubbing baby seals is horrific. But I think PETA is worse than any violence one can perpetrate against an animal. As soon as I hear a PETA campaign, it makes me want to go out and do the opposite. Don't eat at KFC: I'll buy three buckets of chicken at lunch and just throw them away. Don't wear fur: I chased down and skinned enough squirrels to make this handsome coat. Now it appears I'm headed to seal territory. I look forward to getting all dolled up in my Sunday best, grabbing my ceremonial club (The Skullfucker?), and cursing PETA's name as I smash those cute little fellas to smithereens.

PETA: Encouraging wanton violence against animals since 1980.
 
It's only an issue because seals are cute. Does clubbing them kill them effectively; render them unconscious immediately? If so, what's the difference between clubbing a seal, using a snap trap to kill a mouse, or swatting a fly? There is none, except that the former has cute little puppy eyes that make you say "awwwww, isn't it cuuuuuute!" Honestly, though, I'd be against it if it wasn't a quick method of killing the seal. If it's effective, go for it.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
It's only an issue because seals are cute. Does clubbing them kill them effectively; render them unconscious immediately? If so, what's the difference between clubbing a seal, using a snap trap to kill a mouse, or swatting a fly? There is none, except that the former has cute little puppy eyes that make you say "awwwww, isn't it cuuuuuute!" Honestly, though, I'd be against it if it wasn't a quick method of killing the seal. If it's effective, go for it.
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What if they were fainting seals?
 
Originally posted by: iFX
Originally posted by: Iron Woode
Originally posted by: iFX
The best maple syrup comes from Vermont anyway. Canadian syrup is all about quantity, less about quality - sort of like Miller beer.
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wrong.

the best maple syrup comes from Quebec.
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Sorry, it just doesn't. Quebec is a huge producer and exports almost all of their product. Their goal is huge quantities for export, not quality. If you want high quality producers you need to look at small producers in the US or UK.
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There's no small producers in Canada? We buy local maple syrup all the time.
 
I'm Canadian and I'm 100% against the seal hunt. It's a retarded thing they got going on each year and you'd think we'd learn from the past but we don't. They will go extinct at some point due to overhunting. Not to mention the horrible cruel factor of killing parents in front of their kids, and vise versa, skinning them alive, etc. Lot of them suffer for days before they die.

Unfortunately when it comes to money and greed, lives are not even cared about.
 
Hmmm, I did a little looking into it. Apparently there's no one willing to enforce humane kills, and it's led to hunters hurrying from seal to seal without ensuring that the seal was actually dead. Seems to me that if they're going to allow the hunt, all it would take is a few financial penalties to people who needlessly let animals suffer during the hunt, and that would eliminate a lot of the incentive to go about the hunt as recklessly as it sounds.
 
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
I'm Canadian and I'm 100% against the seal hunt. It's a retarded thing they got going on each year and you'd think we'd learn from the past but we don't. They will go extinct at some point due to overhunting. Not to mention the horrible cruel factor of killing parents in front of their kids, and vise versa, skinning them alive, etc. Lot of them suffer for days before they die.

Unfortunately when it comes to money and greed, lives are not even cared about.
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The seal hunt is carefully regulated by the government as to how many seals can be killed each year, and their numbers are constantly going up. AFAIK this year the government allowed something like 300k seals to be killed and just over 100k were.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Hmmm, I did a little looking into it. Apparently there's no one willing to enforce humane kills, and it's led to hunters hurrying from seal to seal without ensuring that the seal was actually dead. Seems to me that if they're going to allow the hunt, all it would take is a few financial penalties to people who needlessly let animals suffer during the hunt, and that would eliminate a lot of the incentive to go about the hunt as recklessly as it sounds.
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Yeah, my main problem with it is the inhumane treatment. It's inevitable that animals will be killed by humans for food and clothing, but we can at least prevent them from living terrible lives or having really painful deaths. My mom exclusively buys free range meat for that reason. Sure, you're still killing the animal, but when it's alive, at least it's getting some room to move and act naturally rather than being locked in a tiny cage.
 
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: Linflas
What I find moronic is supporting a barbaric practice like clubbing baby seals to death.
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You've never worked on a pig farm, have you?
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^^^ As a youth, Nik escaped from one. 😉

But the real question here is, how many innocent maple trees will continue to be static slasher victims in the vicious pursuit of their precious bodily fluids by roaming bands of unprincipled upright bipeds driven mad by their seemingly insatiable waffle topping lust?

Oh, sure, these plaid shirted barbarians attempt to hide the true nature of their cruelly cynical tree rape with such "philosophical" diversions as, "If a Maple tree is slashed in the forest, will any emo hear?"

Don't be a sap! Join IHOP* today!

Stand with me, YOU who apparently have nothing better to do, against the hideous harvest of these tree-blood buckets of shame (and naturally sweet goodness) and the crippling childhood disease they engender.











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Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
Could we get some Canadians to club PETA members instead?
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I am not Canadian, but I would sign up for that. Same goes for any group that financially supports domestic terrorism.
 
Originally posted by: SneakyStuff
Since Ingrid Newkirk (president of PETA) said: "Even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it." I haven't put much stock into what PETA has to say :laugh:.
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This is what I don't get about PETA. People have this special capacity for yanking their underwear eight inches up their own asses whenever PETA is mentioned. Folks act like PETA is effective or something. PETA is like The Onion; they are entertaining, offensive, occasionally correct, but totally incapable of affecting change.
 
Originally posted by: coldmeat
Originally posted by: iFX
Originally posted by: Iron Woode
Originally posted by: iFX
The best maple syrup comes from Vermont anyway. Canadian syrup is all about quantity, less about quality - sort of like Miller beer.
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wrong.

the best maple syrup comes from Quebec.
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Sorry, it just doesn't. Quebec is a huge producer and exports almost all of their product. Their goal is huge quantities for export, not quality. If you want high quality producers you need to look at small producers in the US or UK.
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There's no small producers in Canada? We buy local maple syrup all the time.
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Local does not equal small and small doesn't necessarily equal quality, nor does local. For example, someone lives next door the SPAM factory.
 
I hope PETA keeps this up. They will get less and less support from people. I think I'll go club a baby seal next year wit ha PETA shirt on.
 
Originally posted by: iFX
Originally posted by: coldmeat
Originally posted by: iFX
Originally posted by: Iron Woode
Originally posted by: iFX
The best maple syrup comes from Vermont anyway. Canadian syrup is all about quantity, less about quality - sort of like Miller beer.
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wrong.

the best maple syrup comes from Quebec.
Click to expand...

Sorry, it just doesn't. Quebec is a huge producer and exports almost all of their product. Their goal is huge quantities for export, not quality. If you want high quality producers you need to look at small producers in the US or UK.
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There's no small producers in Canada? We buy local maple syrup all the time.
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Local does not equal small and small doesn't necessarily equal quality, nor does local. For example, someone lives next door the SPAM factory.
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local = straight from the farmer.
 
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