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PETA seeks memorial where 1,600 pounds of fish died in Irvine

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PETA seeks memorial where 1,600 pounds of fish died in Irvine - latimes.com

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On behalf of the animal rights group PETA, an Irvine woman is asking the city to erect a memorial at the street corner where 1,600 pounds of fish died this month when a container truck crashed into two other vehicles.

Dina Kourda, a volunteer with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, wrote to the Irvine Public Works Department to request that a sign be placed at Walnut and Yale avenues to honor the lives of the fish — believed to be saltwater bass — lost in the accident.

The fish had been stored in large tanks that cracked open as a result of the Oct. 11 accident. When firefighters opened the back of the truck, some fish flopped out, and others had already died. None of the people in the accident were seriously injured.

"Although such signs are traditionally reserved for human fatalities, I hope you'll make an exception because of the enormous suffering involved in this case, in order to remind drivers that all animals — whether they're humans, basset hounds or bass — value their lives and feel pain," Kourda wrote.

Remember folks, there is a bright spot in these trying economic and stormy times. We can always laugh at PETA.
 
People who love animals more than people are traitors. Not everyone in PETA is crazy, but enough are to make me ha e a strong distaste for the organization as a whole.
 
PETA is, at this point, essentially the left-wing equivalent of the Westboro Baptist Church, minus a bit of the hate and plus a whole lot more laughability.
 
Fish are cool and all... But really? They "value their lives". They're fish. C'mon.
 
I'm a vegan and I can't stand PETA. There are well intentioned people who are members but as an organization I can't stand it.
 
Expressing love for animals does not inherently mean that you don't care about people. You don't have to choose between the two in most cases.

Do you think that a person torturing a dog should be punished? We do that you know. So are we choosing animals over people in those cases?



People who love animals more than people are traitors. Not everyone in PETA is crazy, but enough are to make me ha e a strong distaste for the organization as a whole.
 
PETA seeks memorial where 1,600 pounds of fish died in Irvine - latimes.com

Remember folks, there is a bright spot in these trying economic and stormy times. We can always laugh at PETA.

I sort of respect what they do . . . I rarely judge them. But a memorial for fish? Who died as a result of an accident? I'm sorry. Ridiculous. How about a memorial for the over 4 million dogs and cats who are euthanized each year? Dogs and cats who were faithful until the end -- the end being, way too many times, when their owners simply tired of them.
 
Every couple of weeks a genocide truck travels our neighborhood mercilessly slaughtering helpless, innocent mosquitos by the millions - blaming them all for the offenses of so very few. Besides, they were here first.
 
Every couple of weeks a genocide truck travels our neighborhood mercilessly slaughtering helpless, innocent mosquitos by the millions - blaming them all for the offenses of so very few. Besides, they were here first.

Antibiotics are literal genocide. The man who invented penicillin is about a trillion times worse than Hitler!
 
Expressing love for animals does not inherently mean that you don't care about people. You don't have to choose between the two in most cases.

Do you think that a person torturing a dog should be punished? We do that you know. So are we choosing animals over people in those cases?
No, punishing a person for abusing a dog is not what I mean, what I mean is PETA members have told me that they would rather people starve than eat meat and all kinds of other crazy nonsense. Maybe some individuals are well intentioned, but I think they are taking it way too far, dumping paint on people who wear fur etc. All it takes is meeting one PETA militant vegan and it is hard not to harbor ill will toward them.

Maybe when all of the humans are taken care of we can spend money on stopping animal suffering, until then I have a serious problem with organizations like PETA. The SPCA does a great job, and protects humans from dangerous animals, they are the only place I would support who are fighting for "animal's rights" atm.
 
Every couple of weeks a genocide truck travels our neighborhood mercilessly slaughtering helpless, innocent mosquitos by the millions - blaming them all for the offenses of so very few. Besides, they were here first.

true story-24 years ago or so I debated Ingrid Newkirk on a talk radio station. She whined that school children were taught about the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis but not that committed by Colonel Sanders against all those poor chickens. The host noted that anyone who thought they were the same ought to be sent to Auschwitz. Newkirk was dead serious. They don't love animals, they hate people
 
true story-24 years ago or so I debated Ingrid Newkirk on a talk radio station. She whined that school children were taught about the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis but not that committed by Colonel Sanders against all those poor chickens. The host noted that anyone who thought they were the same ought to be sent to Auschwitz. Newkirk was dead serious. They don't love animals, they hate people

I hate people too but I'm still eating chicken wings for as long as my aorta can handle it.
 
true story-24 years ago or so I debated Ingrid Newkirk on a talk radio station. She whined that school children were taught about the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis but not that committed by Colonel Sanders against all those poor chickens. The host noted that anyone who thought they were the same ought to be sent to Auschwitz. Newkirk was dead serious. They don't love animals, they hate people

during the same discussion, the host (the late "Rich King") asked each of us to summarize our position on animal rights

MS Newkirk noted that if you were driving down a road and on one side of the road was a baby in a carriage and the other side was a chimpanzee by the side of the road, and your tire blew it should be a MORAL DILEMMA as to whether you hit the child or the monkey

When it was my turn I noted that if the chimp was my pet I'd merely ask to be compensated for its loss but if the driver hit my child deliberately I'd track the driver down and kill him slow. Rich had to cover his mike he was laughing so hard. Ingrid Looked like someone had stuffed a sea urchin up her
 
All it takes is meeting one PETA militant vegan and it is hard not to harbor ill will toward them.

All it takes is meeting one animal torturer and it's hard not to harbor ill will towards humans. I spent a year volunteering at my local pound. Last years Christmas kitten turned in to die because it grew up and got larger. A 7 year old dog turned in to die because "we're moving". Police holds on a cat with one eye torn out by the owner. Pit bulls in bulk raised to fight. A cat whose owner moved and left them behind to starve. 83% of the cats that came in left as ashes.

But I still try to see the good in the people that are. And I greatly respect PETA for the many valid efforts they make to stop animal abuse.

Just my thoughts.

No, punishing a person for abusing a dog is not what I mean, what I mean is PETA members have told me that they would rather people starve than eat meat and all kinds of other crazy nonsense. Maybe some individuals are well intentioned, but I think they are taking it way too far, dumping paint on people who wear fur etc. All it takes is meeting one PETA militant vegan and it is hard not to harbor ill will toward them.

Maybe when all of the humans are taken care of we can spend money on stopping animal suffering, until then I have a serious problem with organizations like PETA. The SPCA does a great job, and protects humans from dangerous animals, they are the only place I would support who are fighting for "animal's rights" atm.
 
PETA kills more animals than it saves. They are a terrible hypocritical organization.
 
PETA and it's supporters are pathetic losers, let's not forget what their ultimate goal is, the extinction of the human species.
 
"Here lies Guppy I, Guppy II, Guppy III, Guppy IV, Guppy V, Guppy VI, Guppy VII, Guppy VIII, Guppy IX, Guppy X......"
 
Peta Kills Animals

Washington, DC — Today the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published documents online, obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request, showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed a staggering 95.9 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2011. Despite years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the notorious animal rights group has continued killing adoptable animals at its Norfolk, VA headquarters, at an average of 37 pets every week.
 
PETA isn't wrong about everything, and that's the tragedy--for the animals, I mean. But who can listen to, much less take seriously, folks who hang out in front of elementary schools with little pamphets about how daddies who fish are bad or this?

PETA Unhappy Meals Targeting Kids - Slashfood
 
I sort of respect what they do . . . I rarely judge them. But a memorial for fish? Who died as a result of an accident? I'm sorry. Ridiculous. How about a memorial for the over 4 million dogs and cats who are euthanized each year? Dogs and cats who were faithful until the end -- the end being, way too many times, when their owners simply tired of them.

And PETA euthanize about 90% of the animals they take in. Shameful.
 
Do you know what i like PETA and all and support a good amount of what they do, but cmon PETA this is just ridiculous.
 
I think people would be well advised that if they are going to donate money to not donate to PETA. I donate to my local shelters instead.
 
PETA is, at this point, essentially the left-wing equivalent of the Westboro Baptist Church, minus a bit of the hate and plus a whole lot more laughability.

Scaring little kids with images of Ronald McDonald with a dripping dagger and telling them that their daddies are bad isn't funny at all; it's sick.
 
I don't really expect anything rational from PETA and I laugh at them. I think they are probably the craziest mainstream organization in America.
 
I don't really expect anything rational from PETA and I laugh at them. I think they are probably the craziest mainstream organization in America.

their knowledge of animals is just slightly higher than Count Dracula's experience with sunlight
 
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