Really, is it dignified to replace this cute fella (and family pet I add) with a friggin' robot dog?
As has been well documented other places, PETA's latest attention grab is their entreaty to the University of Georgia to
replace their beloved UGA mascot with robot dogs...
According to PETA, it is an opportunity to highlight the cruelty of animal breeding.
This dog has clearly been subjected to torture and maltreatment...
Ignore, for a moment, that Uga is not a mere mascot; he is a family pet, and his moonlighting gig is to be adored and worshipped by millions of UGA students, fans and alums, as well as dog lovers everythwere. Think for a moment that these dogs have access to world class facilities, health care, and all the love that anyone, or any critter, could ever want...
Seems pretty cruel to me...
Now, on the heels of
that bizarro-world, complete disconnect with reality, comes
THIS completely batshit PETA ploy...a woman willing her body to various degrees of dismemberment for PETA media-whoring. Among the gems of this "will" are the following....
1. Upon my death, it is my wish that my body be used in a manner that draws attention to needless animal suffering and exploitation.
Oh boy...Exploitation to highlight exploitation. Does fuzzy logic tickle?
a. That the “meat” of my body, or a portion thereof, be used for a human barbecue, to remind the world that the meat of a corpse is all flesh, regardless of whether it comes from a human being or another animal, and that flesh foods are not needed
Maybe not needed, but damned tasty anyway. BTW: Did you know that humans smell like pork?
Pass the sauce...
b. That my skin, or a portion thereof, be removed and made into leather products, such as purses, to remind the world that human skin and the skin of other animals is the same and that neither is “fabric” nor needed, and that some skin be tacked up outside the Indian Leather Fair each year to serve as a reminder of the government’s need to abate the suffering of Indian bullocks who, after a life of extreme and involuntary servitude, as I have seen firsthand, are exported all over the world in this form;
Obviously she doesn't live in the Northern Plains, where down, leather and animal hides are the warmest things, indeed the only things, that keep one warm enough to survive.
Yep, animal hides. Completely. Unneccessary.
Ah, but the hyperbole is just getting warmed up...
d. That one of my eyes be removed, mounted, and delivered to the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a reminder that PETA will continue to be watching the agency until it stops poisoning and torturing animals in useless and cruel experiments; that the other is to be used as PETA sees fit
Dear PETA, can I haz extra eye? K Thx.
XOXOX
-Alastor Moody
And, as if that weren't weird enough...
h. That one of my thumbs be removed, mounted upwards on a plaque, and sent to the person or institution that, in the year of my death or thereabouts, PETA decides has done the most to promote alternatives to the use and abuse of animals in any area of their exploitation;
i. That one of my thumbs be mounted in a downward position and sent to the person or institution that, in the year of my death or thereabouts, has gone against the changing tide of societal opinion and frightened and hurt animals in some egregious manner
Siskel and Ebert approve of these provisions...
And, it gets weirder and weirder....
f. That my liver be vacuum-packed and shipped, in whole or in part, to France, to there be used in a public appeal to persuade shoppers not to support the vile practice of force-feeding geese and ducks for foie gras;
Did you say liver? I'll bring the fava beans and chianti...
And, lastly, Ms. Newkirk's will directs the following....
k. That anything else be done with my body that PETA believes will serve to draw attention to and so abate the plight of exploited animals.
I particularly enjoyed this provision. Mainly because PETA, who decries exploitation of animals, has absolutely
no qualms about exploiting their fellow human animals. This is an organization that smacks of mysogyny and sexism at every turn, and who -without any sense of irony- gratuitously uses women as props, as attention-grabbing subjects for their tasteless ads, as (if you will pardon the word) puppets and meat for their own gain.
Seriously, PETA, shut the fuck up already.
PETA can place this ad, and decry exploitation, without any sense of irony hitting them in their thick skulls...
