PETA crosses line with Olympic anti-sealing campaign: Inuit leader

[Praxius]

An animation on a PETA website depicts blood-covered Inuit chasing a seal pup with stone-age clubs.

PETA crosses line with Olympic anti-sealing campaign: Inuit leader

A prominent animal welfare group's campaign linking the 2010 Winter Olympics with the Canadian seal hunt is offensive, an Inuit leader says.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — better known as PETA — has launched a website called Olympic Shame 2010, features the stylized inukshuk that was created as the symbol for the upcoming Vancouver Winter Games. In the animation, though, the inukshuk is swinging a club at a seal in a pool of blood.

Copyright infringement....

As well, an animation on the site also shows Inuit with seal blood dripping from their hands and mouths, wielding stone-age clubs.

Cripes.... could you be anymore ignorant in your lame ass propaganda?

Mary Simon, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the national Inuit organization, said the campaign insults traditional hunting culture, and is filled with misinformation.

"It just goes to show you to what extent these animal right activists will go to try and convince people that this is somehow wrong," Simon told CBC News.

Simon said she wants to know how the meat Inuit use for food is any different from meat used by other cultures.

They don't have a clue because they never actually bother to look into facts, they just go off their ignorant emotions about things they know nothing about and just assume what they see is wrong..... thus it excuses their own actions of being racist, insulting..... oh never mind, we all know what PETA really is..... pointless.

"Domesticated animals that are being killed in very inhumane ways — they don't attack those. They're very selective in how they pander to the public emotion," said Simon, adding that Europeans who oppose the Canadian seal hunt are hypocritical.

Indeed they are.

"These are organizations that will do anything to fundraise for their own activities and they're very selective in what they attack," she said.

"They live in countries where there [is] culling because they don't hunt seals, they cull them instead."

Herb Jacques, who heads the Inuit community government in Makkovik, on Labrador's northern coast, said he was outraged when he saw the PETA site, showing bloodthirsty Inuit chasing seal pups.

"To me it's a mockery. It's degrading to the Inuit," he said.

"That's not the way of life. The Inuit depend on the seals for food purposes. To me, that's giving the wrong message."

Simon said she has written to PETA, asking that the organization not use Inuit people in its campaigns.

Indeed... they live out on ice.... wtf else are they going to use for food?

No matter what they find, I'm sure PETA will have a problem with it..... friggin morons.

One comment below the report had a great idea:

"VANOC should sue for copyright infringement, collect a settlement then list PETA as a proud sponsor of the 2010 Winter Olympics."
~ MoonDawg

[Praxius]

I guess there will always be nutbag organizations for just about anything out there..... oh well.... so long as they keep up with this type of approach, those with common sense won't take them seriously.

I mean, what a joke..... I would have thought they were better then this.... but I guess nothing is too low.

If they ever want a perfect example of how demented humans really are, they should look in the mirror.

[Aussie]

I wouldn't worry, i dont think too many rational people listen to PETA anyway. They've done an excellent job of making themselves look like loonies, throw in a few racist stereotypes, but hey, they're only eskimos right, the friendly ones...

[Chinook]

I'm glad nobody really takes PETA too seriously.

If they think they can change Canadian's hearts on the issue, they'd have been better to use something more Inuit than the Vancouver - that's right, the city farthest from any seal hunting - Olympic anime-uglies.

If they are hoping to change the planet's heart on the issue, then as Canadians alike, seal hunt supporters or not, we should be outraged that an organisation is blatantly misusing symbols associated with Canada.

[Aussie]

For some bizzare reason extreme animal rights activists seem to have no problem in routinely pissing off or putting off the very people they're trying to garner support for or the people they're trying to change??

[princessme23]

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): The animal rights organization

Animals Are Not Ours to Eat
Animals Are Not Ours to Wear
Animals Are Not Ours to Experiment On
Animals Are Not Ours to Use for Entertainment
Animals Are Not Ours to Abuse in Any Way

As soon as I read this alone on the site I didnt take it seriously.
Go vegan? No thank you.
Im all for non cruelty etc but they are against everything, pet shops, Mc Donalds the list goes on..

They are more for animal rights then they are for humans rights so I am really not surprised by their actions.

[Aussie]

From the site - "In the way that slavery, once a broad social norm, later became an unthinkable crime, we can expect to see a similar shift once meat-eating disappears from our planet. Perhaps, some day, the very idea of eating animal flesh will seem as remote as the idea of owning humans does now."

Look, we're like slave owners now! Must be by proxy...

[RickSp]

For me the classic and really telling incident was when PETA complained after a suicide bomber on the West Bank used to mule to carry the bomb. Several people and the mule were killed when the bomb went off. PETA was not concerned about the people only about the mule. From the PETA website:

PETA’s letter to Yasser Arafat

[princessme23]

Thats what Im saying, they seem to have a total disregard even disgust, for their fellow humans yet tell me I cannot enjoy my steak.
Sorry I cant see me giving up meat....ever!!

If they dont even want you eating an egg, then of course they are going to be against seal hunting, and if they have no compassion for humans then they arent going to care if they insult certain races!

[Praxius]

From the site - "In the way that slavery, once a broad social norm, later became an unthinkable crime, we can expect to see a similar shift once meat-eating disappears from our planet. Perhaps, some day, the very idea of eating animal flesh will seem as remote as the idea of owning humans does now."

Look, we're like slave owners now! Must be by proxy...

For me the classic and really telling incident was when PETA complained after a suicide bomber on the West Bank used to mule to carry the bomb. Several people and the mule were killed when the bomb went off. PETA was not concerned about the people only about the mule. From the PETA website:

PETA’s letter to Yasser Arafat

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): The animal rights organization

As soon as I read this alone on the site I didnt take it seriously.
Go vegan? No thank you.
Im all for non cruelty etc but they are against everything, pet shops, Mc Donalds the list goes on..

They are more for animal rights then they are for humans rights so I am really not surprised by their actions.

You know? Maybe we're looking at this the wrong way.

Maybe if we use a similar mentality against members of PETA, ie: ignorant and thinking extreme is the right course of action, We should put them all on trial for "Treason Against Humanity", find them guilty and execute them..... maybe others will see their errors and stop supporting them.

Then we can make all kinds of cartoons and commercials/web sites showing how crazy they are, to a rediculous degree.

We're just protecting our species afterall.

[Aussie]

Ha ha ha, good point Prax!!

But I dont think I could live with myself stooping to levels as low as PETA.

[barts]

I wouldn't worry, i dont think too many rational people listen to PETA anyway. They've done an excellent job of making themselves look like loonies, throw in a few racist stereotypes, but hey, they're only eskimos right, the friendly ones...

The membership of PETA is about 2 million which is about 4 times the population of Newfoundland-Labrador, the major Canadian sealing province. PETA raises about $30 million per year, which is about 3 times the value of the Canadian commercial seal hunt.

PETA is just one of many groups with multi-million memberships around the world putting pressure on Canada and other sealing nations to end commercial sealing.

In other words, more people are "paying" to try to end the Canadian and other commercial seal hunts than there are people who are paying for seal skin products.

As provocative and media attracting as PETA's seal hunt campaign might be (as all PETA campaigns are designed to be), it's clearly attracting a large number of rational people.

In fact, I would submit that it is irrational to want to wear the skins of animals for fashion, particularly when they come from weeks old marine mammals who are killed using particularly cruel methods.

Just to remind folks, this is a debate forum, not a mutual agreement society. In the interests of that fact, I thought I might add another view to this thread.