Let me go on record here, I'm no activist, animal, vegetable, nor mineral. I eat more meat than Ryan Seacrest. Okay, that's a bit of a stretch, heh. Despite being so sick that I can't stand myself, I drug my ass out to the PETA protest, guilt being my motivation. Sadly not guilt over baby seal killers, or red necked Kentucky chicken purveyors, rather the guilt of neglecting my readers. So hear is what I came away with.
There were two, count em, two, twenty something cave chicks. That's it. Not a single local news station, nobody from the star, not a soul from the pitch, no other bloggers to be found. There was just me, two cave women, and the occasional well heeled soccer mom who looked at the two protesters like they were smeared in feces and non designer perfume. The best part of my short stay was watching the reactions, the facial expressions of the people these girls approached. One of the guys who wander the Plaza with a trash barrel on wheels was approached by one of the PETA girls. She tried to hand him a leaflet and he looked like she tried to hand him a skinned seal. The guy almost pushed his trash can out in traffic trying to get as far away as possible.
I only spoke with one of the women, the other girl must be a method actor, she never gave me more than a grunt, and spent the ten minutes I was there pacing back and forth hitting the sidewalk with a plastic Fred Flintstone club. I was expecting , nay hoping for some good old fashioned West Coast Crazy, and that girl did not disappoint. The other Peta girl took her plastic Billy Bob Teeth out and answered some questions. They were from California, they travel around doing this, Kansas City had the poorest turnout of any city they have been to. They tried to get me to hold a banner, but I was afraid it would destroy my street cred. Instead I took a couple of pics of them with normal Peta Girls camera, and then took some of my own.
Two other items of interest: When I walked up with my camera the girl asked me if I was Tony. I gave her a funny look and she said "Kansas City Tony?" I explained to her that no I wasn't Tony of Tony's Kansas City. And as any self respecting ego driven blogger would do, I went on to say that I was not only better looking than TKC, my blog was more substantive and well written than TKC. None of this being particularly true, that however didn't stop me from dissing someone to elevate my own status. Last but not least, I actually came away from the brief meeting with a little respect for people who devote time out of their lives for a cause they believe in. Okay, that last line was bullshit, I went there hoping to see scantily clad young women with a twist of crazy . One final thing, the talking cave girl told me there was supposed to have been a bunch of Kansas City Activists there as well, but they all called in sick. So I expect all of you tight black jean wearing emo douche bags to turn in your Dead Kennedys t shirts and checkered Coverse Chuck Taylors, pussies.
Funny thing, we never see Midtown and Tony at the same time? Kinda like Superman and Clark Kent?
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Good to see ya again.
So who pays for these girls to drive around the country and protest?
I haven't seen anyone in furs for years, must be low-class joints I patronize.
ReplyDeletePETA is a non-profit organization, so clearly they don't make much money, but their travel expenses (which are very economical)for demonstraion tours like this are paid for by a small portion of the donations from the millions of PETA members worldwide. PETA type of non-profit is very well regulated in order to maintain its charity satus.
ReplyDeleteRock on girls, sorry I couldn't be there...
Sweet back tat Wilma! :-)
ReplyDeletePeople for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), a nonprofit interest group whose goal is to end all animal exploitation, is the largest animal rights organization in the world. Founded in 1980, PETA has more than 2 million members and supporters and an annual budget of $30 million.
ReplyDeleteGo to this link if you are looking for a Cave Girl job.
http://www.peta.org/about/jobs.asp
Great, one attention whore meets a whole group devoted to attention whoring and the result is a gaping black whole of attention whores that suck in all the other attention whores.
ReplyDeleteNice pics and coverage. thanks for blogging this story.
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I am 100% a fan of animals. I am not a fan of PETA. Too much crazy rolled up in an organization.
ReplyDeleteTo all the ladies out there: I have some really neat rhinestone studded fur clips from the 1940's to go with all your furs. ladies. That's my story and I'm stickin with it.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad that people still support PETA. PETA does no good for the animals. They kill over 90% of the animals they take in. http://www.petakillsanimals.com/
ReplyDeleteEven more staggering than their kill-rate is how many animals they save; PETA has a $30+ millon budget, yet looking at their records from the past couple years, they've only found homes for **less than 20 animals** a year. I know individuals that rescue more animals that that each year, and have far less than a $30 millon budget.
They also try to get people to turn over pets they can no loner keep to PETA instead of a legit animal shetler. http://www.nokillnow.com/PETAIngridNewkirkResign.htm
PETA also prays on children, and tries to use children against their parents. In these comics they gave to kids, they say at the end that the parents are going to kill the family pets:
http://www.furisdead.com/feat-momfur.asp
http://www.fishinghurts.com/feat-newcomic.asp
"Our campaigns are always geared towards children and they always will be."
-- PeTA Vice-President Dan Matthews, on the Fox News Network December 19, 2003
PETA has been caught red-handed misrepresenting their "undercover films" http://www.furcommission.com/news/newsC7.htm and honestly, it wouldn't surprise me at all if many of their films are completely staged.
PETA's wants extinction of domestic animals. I think it's a pretty warped view to "help and love animals" by wanting them all dead.
PETA thinks that humans and animals should have zero interaction with each other.
Here's a partial list of some of PETA's "rules":
- no eating meat or any other animal product (even honey)
- no pets
- no service dogs for blind/disabled people
- no police dogs
- no "no-kill" shelters
- no using any animal product for clothing, not limited to fur & leather, but also including wool and silk
- no hunting
- no animal testing, even for medical advancement
- no zoos, no matter how well the animals are taken care of
- no medicines or vaccines that come from animals, which includes but is not limited to insulin and the flu shot (flu shot vaccine is grown in eggs, therefore not "vegan")
PETA is an organization that hates both humans and animals. I think they'd lose over 90% of their supporters if their supports did some research on them.
A little bit more information:
http://www.targetofopportunity.com/animal_rights_quotes.htm
http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/21
http://www.purebredcatbreedrescue.org/animal_rights.htm
Where's my comment, huh?
ReplyDeleteJena I havent deleted any comments, please feel free to repost it.
ReplyDeleteI do have to admit that wearing furs is wrong in this day and age of high tech insulated outdoor clothing. Killing animals for fur simply serves no practical purpose except to serve an outmoded fashion. It's interesting how few fur coats you see anymore. So PETA is on target with that effort.
ReplyDeleteAlso, from a health standpoint our society does eat too much meat. So cutting back on that for our own well-being is probably a wise move. But cutting it out completely is simply not going to happen any time soon. Animal protein is a part of the human diet and will probably remain so for the conceivable future. There simply aren't any popular or good tasting alternatives to a well-grilled steak, steamed shrimp, lobster with butter, barbecued ribs, or smoked chicken. Now if PETA could find vegetarian replacements for those culinary delicacies that are as tastey, then they might get some traction, but I doubt that will happen in the conceivable future.
Finally, concerning any other separation of human and animal interaction, that's pure unrealistic idealism. Our world is a messy, complicated place, and short of our leaving the globe we're going to be interacting with animals. That's just reality.
PETA actually stands for "People Eating Tasty Animals"
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