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April 9, 2008

Chicken Petard: Have It Your Way

by @ 11:54 am. Filed under General, Personhood, Biotechnology, Global/Community Health, Medical Science, Theory, Research Issues

I really loathe PETA, for lots of good reasons.

But that can take many forms, one of which is mocking, in appropriately childish fashion, PETA’s own tactic for pressuring corporate chicken-torturers [sic]. They have a Web sign-generator site in which they encourage people to post comments about Kentucky Fried Chicken’s practice of, as they put it “tortur[ing] chickens for profit”. Whatever the hell that’s about, it interests me far less than the fact that PETA, as a group, is offensive and abusive to real people, whom I care about far more than the animal fetish-objects that are their sole obsession. So if we’re going to make little signs about cruelty and inappropriate moral priorities, well, let’s get our inappropriate priorities straight, first:

Make your own!

2 Responses to “Chicken Petard: Have It Your Way”

  1. tgirsch Says:

    Let me go ahead and get the obligatory “People for the Eating of Tasty Animals” reference out of the way.

    With that done, carry on…

  2. Willendorf Says:

    The Center for Consumer Freedom is not a reliable source — it’s essentially a front for the meat industry.

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