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by Mike Schramm 
Apr 13th 2009 at 5:00PM
And perhaps most hilariously, people brought plenty of Great Feasts to lay out for the crowd, which means that right in all of the (supposedly) animal-saving action, there was plenty of roast pig to eat. Not exactly the best day for PETA, but what did they expect? They did, however, get quite a few media mentions, so it was probably mission accomplished over there anyway.
Did you go to the event? If you've got more pictures of what happened, or even some video of what went down, let us know and we'll add them to the gallery below.
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 4)
RyuHakubi Apr 13th 2009 6:25PM
You're either being argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, denser then lead, HIGHLY naive, or a combination of any of those three.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99249669
I'm not sayin' NPR ain't infallible or invulnerable to "trickery." I'm just sayin, creating a website that tries to get parents and children to associate fishing with sticking a hook in a kitten's mouth and dragging it behind a car is compatible with an organization that tries to get its members to stop using refined sugar because harvesting damages the home of cane snakes.
Good day, sir.
Hoggersbud Apr 13th 2009 6:39PM
To Agate: Well, there's trying to be funny, and there's doing things with a sense of flippancy, or irony. Sometimes you're not meant to laugh, but that doesn't mean it's not meant in an absurd and outrageous way that isn't exactly serious in the way you might think. It's a subtle difference, and I'm sure I'm not expressing it very clearly, but everything I see from PETA has obviously been meant in a less than serious sense, and a lot of the critics I see about them seem to be missing it.
To RyuH:
I'm sorry if it upsets you, but I'm convinced that they're being outrageous and aren't as dumb as you're trying to make them out to be. I don't know how I could convince you of it, but that's the way it seems to me. It's a clown-job, and they know it. Too bad you don't know they know it. Then you might be less upset.
RyuHakubi Apr 13th 2009 6:51PM
HoggerB
If you honestly believe that, then fair enough. But they're not joking. Not about "sea kittens," not about sugar harvesting being cruel, not about comparing farming/raising animals to the holocaust, none of it.
We can both agree they're over the top. You just seem to think they're trying to make a point by being silly, correct? If that's so, I have to respectfully disagree. They are for real, and they are indeed that out of touch with reality.
A shame really. "Real" animal rights organizations have to live down PETA's stunts.
frzz Apr 13th 2009 6:58PM
the factory farms/holocaust reference was not first pointed out by peta, but by an actual holocaust survivor, Isaac Bashevis Singer.
One of the ways in which the 3rd reich was able to talk people into caging, torturing, and gassing millions of jews was by dehumanizing them.
"In relation to [animals], all people are Nazis; for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka"
Just because something makes you uncomfortable does not automatically give you the ability to toss it aside as a false premise.
i agree that peta are not helping by doing silly things like this, but whenever someone brings the nazi thing up, i have to point this out.
Oxtoby Apr 19th 2009 2:31AM
Oh Hoggersbud, why couldn't you just have said that you were so naive? It would have saved us from, er, THiS.
Caserno Apr 13th 2009 5:08PM
So many mobs to left to skin....
In a way PETA won, they got the message across of the seal's plight, despite the circumstances ingame
rosencratz Apr 13th 2009 5:30PM
^ - This!
It was obvious what was going to happen, we even know that the guys running it were long running wow players. All they wanted was publicity and that's what they got.
Make jokes about it all you want, it only makes their agenda more public.
Kakistocracy Apr 13th 2009 5:44PM
People still buy the, "there's no such thing as bad publicity" slogan?
I guess aphorisms really are the opiate of the masses.
Angus Apr 13th 2009 7:04PM
Publicity of the following type:
"PETA members trying to stage a protest in World of Warcraft summarily mocked into feeling useless."
is not good publicity.
In fact, all it does is make me laugh.
Iowa State University had a chapter of PETA once. People for the Eating of Tasty Animals. The real group couldn't even find 3 people to show at a meeting. When it gets to this point in a video game, you have image issues and should rethink your approach.
Dementron Apr 14th 2009 1:39AM
Frankly, I hate any time PETA gets publicity.
They're just a bunch of crazies and publicity whores who give a bad name to animal rights.
I care greatly for the well-being of animals, but I am also a reasonable person, not a fanatic, and I'm sure there are many others like me. Thanks to PETA, though, I am afraid to ever even use the term "animal rights" because people automatically associate it with their psychotic fanaticism.
Sadly, PETA's very existence only serves to hurt the cause they claim to champion.
Sev Apr 13th 2009 5:08PM
Oh noes, teh virtual seals r dying@@ save da pixelzz
Rizuli Apr 13th 2009 5:10PM
See kiddies, this is why you knot play with crazy environmentalists.
*Eats easter lamb leftovers*
ryan Apr 13th 2009 5:13PM
Tonight PETA dines in hell... on seal meat!
MechChef Apr 13th 2009 5:14PM
As the t-shirt says, "Meat is murder. Tasty, tasty murder."
Todd Apr 13th 2009 5:24PM
That is by far the most hilarious thing I have read today!
flawedsymmetry Apr 13th 2009 5:25PM
I lol'd.
Rich Apr 13th 2009 5:26PM
For every animal you save, I will eat three.
NinthBatter Apr 13th 2009 5:26PM
Honestly my favorite part of the whole thing were the Ally protesting the killing of horde by protecting them with a wall of meat, a bunch of feasts, in front of the horde.
P.E.T.A. you say fur is murder, well I say killing people is murder!
Raz Apr 14th 2009 6:32AM
"Killing a few Horde Bad Guys," huh?
..."Horde Bad Guys" like Tauren?
"Kill the cows to save the animals" seems pretty prejudiced against those of the bovine persuasion :p
Hoggersbud Apr 13th 2009 5:30PM
I heard that nobody showed up from PETA, and that it was a non-event.
Oh well, a bunch of people acting stupid, nothing new on WOW.