ROSAMOND - A teacher who castrated a live pig in front of high school students is the target of protests by animal rights activists throughout the country. The protests began after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals posted information about the incident at Rosamond High School on its Web site last month. The posting does not say when the castration occurred. "We're concerned not only because animals suffer during these routine castrations but also because of the message it sends to students who are still forming opinions about treatment of animals in our society," said Stephanie Bell, a PETA cruelty case worker. Rod Van Norman, superintendent of the Southern Kern Unified School District School, said animal castrations often occur in agriculture classes and are an important skill for students to learn. "I don't know why they're picking on a little school district," he said. PETA is the most evil organization that man has ever created. They have the power, ignorance, and ungodly dumb-luck to do ANYTHING they want to (including funding REAL terrorism within north america). This sort of thing is just another example of why every member of PETA should be castrated, without anesthetic, with a rusty butter-knife, by a trucker named Dave who's "lonely". More ignorance this-a-way...
PETA is kind of going overboard...but animal cruelty isn't cool. Castration is important if you don't want a bunch of piglets running around, but veal and exsanguination (had to look that one up...) is a pretty horrible thing to do to an animal. PETA has done some good, but they are asking for a lot. There is no way I could castrate a pig. After having dissected a pig, every time I eat meat I wonder why I'm not a vegetarion. I guess it's because meat comes wrapped in a nice, harmless container.
Well, PETA is known for burning down houses of "offenders" and whatnot - certainly more of a terrorist group than the Taliban and whatnot. While I don't support animal cruelty, I also keep in mind that people are technically animals. Of course, I also had a patch sewn on my backpack reading "save a garden - eat a vegetarian!"
The only ethical thing to do is suicide. http://vhemt.org/ Maybe a video of how to clean a deer is in order...and I don't mean a bath .
You missed the point of VHEMT, .308. It's not about individual suicide, but rather about choosing not to reproduce. The unofficial motto, since it's not what most people would recognize as an organization is "Live long and die out". I had never heard of it until you posted the link in another thread, but it turns out that I'm already a member
I wonder what the pig thought about having his testicles removed. Oh silly me, I forgot, pigs are only dumb animals!!!! Touchwood
I don't mind having my position refered to as wacko, or having it be made fun of, but you might want to get your facts straight is all.
Not frowning upon it is not the same as advocating it. Not saying no is not the same as saying yes. In any case, suicide, like procreation, is a personal choice. After all, who better than the individual to decide when to die? If a person is truly convinced that their life is not worth living, who am I to argue with them? I don't know what they have expierienced, I don't know what their situation is, and it would be extreemly presumptious of me to try to impose my beliefs on them.
Aren't you afraid a person, who has just suffered something extremely tragic, is more inclined to do something dumb (like kill themselves) when in their right minds they normally wouldn't. I would assume most people on the brink of suicide that were saved were glad they were given a second chance. I don't want someone to do anything as drastic as kill themselves if they haven't thought it over VERY heavily. You don't buy a house without carefully thinking about the situation...you'd think people would give more thought over their lives.
I read a lot of opinions, which some try to pass off as facts. But how many guys or girls felt like ending it all just because they got the flick. To find in a week or two they have a new love in their lives and the world is Rosy again!! Bleat, bleat yea we all got our rights!!! It is always darkest just before the dawn!! Touchwood
PETA protested on my buddy's farm one time, and his dad sued someone over it because there were problems getting the milk to market... the only time that I've seen PETA lose anything... but it was great . The lot reminds me of the other people who burned the Hummer lot (I think that was Greenpeace)... they say that the burning of those cars there polluted the environment a lot more than 20 years of constantly running the cars.
On PETA: I'd expect nothing more then this sort of psuedo-terrorism(although, they're certainly prepared to do more sometimes) from an orginisation which talks with stupid terms such as "total animal liberation", screws up the countryside by releasing captive animals which aren't part of an ecosystem, and kill more then 50% of the animals they "save" each year. I would concur with the rusty knife idea proposed earlier on. Ok, coming to this because its a damn good discussion to have in its own right. Suicide, if done on a spur of the moment, is probably kinda dumb, and I think you're quite likely right that the majority of people who are talked down of bridges because their wifes just left them or whatever, are glad of it in the longterm. However, I've met people who want to suicide, due to being permanently, and incurabley ill. Its not euthanasia, they still have a very basic and limited quality of life, they can still think, they just say to themselves "if this is all there is, I don't really think I'm going to stick around for it". If suicide is the result of a well thought out decision, then no-one should try to intervene, and it is quite rude to do so.
Not just kill, but unecessarily kill perfectly healthy animals...according to PETA themselves, it's over 85% of animals - as per This Is True
Funny how they think a fox that has lived off trash in the city its whole life knows how to hunt in the woods...wait, maybe they think the fox will become a vegetarian?
Of course it will, in real life animals don't eat other animals, they're above all that carnivore stuff, and its all meatist propoganda that brought about this ludicrous idea that anything other then human kind eats meat, in the real world, animals live in peace and harmony, just like in childrens books, and small animals can walk and talk with bigger animals without fear, knowing that the bigger deadlier hungry animal beside it is never going to do anything like eat it, that'd be cruel, and we all know animals have a pristine sense of morality.
I agree, but the problem is determining which it is: an emotional rash decision or a balanced and rational one. This, in practice, is rather tricky as the things that tend to factor in rational decisions to end one's own life also tend to be rather upsetting and depressing and lead to impulsive acts of suicide... Better not get that judgement wrong; a life depends on it... When most people say: "I don't want to live" they really mean: "I don't want to live like this". The first option should always be to explore alternatives. However those are often more costly to implement than just pulling the plug... hence I am a bit cynical about the whole euthanasia debate.
