NORFOLK, VA—In a new campaign featuring several graphic images of the animals falling from 30,000 feet in the sky, People For Ethical Treatment Of Animals released an ad Thursday that seemed to imply that throwing horses out of planes was a common practice. “How do you think he feels about your in-flight…

NORFOLK, VA—In a new campaign featuring several graphic images of the animals falling from 30,000 feet in the sky, People For Ethical Treatment Of Animals released an ad Thursday that seemed to imply that throwing horses out of planes was a common practice. “How do you think he feels about your in-flight entertainment?” said the ad, which heavily suggested that the ritual of hurling horses from commercial airlines and watching them fall to the ground and die occurred fairly regularly, if not daily. “Hey, Chris Pratt, would you do this to your dog? What if Seabiscuit pushed you out of a plane? It’s not just humans who deserve parachutes. When it comes to throwing horses out of airplanes, just say ‘neigh.’” At press time, PETA released a follow-up ad implying that horses being thrown from planes was also making humans obese and impotent.

    • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Stole pet*

      And the two employees responsible for it were immediately fired because they went against PETA’S own guidelines

      This is like boycotting Burger King because they stick their feet in the lettuce

      Edit: and, speaking as someone who once worked at an animal shelter, it’s a wildly unpopular opinion but kill shelters are a necessity. Especially ones like PETA’s, which provides end-of-life care. I could link to the pictures of the kind of animal they put to sleep, but I don’t think you want to see dogs who are more tumor than dog, or cats who are missing most of their skin. It’s easy to look at your own pet and imagine how horrific it would be for them to be euthanized. It’s harder to look at a cat who can’t eat because his mouth is essentially one large ulcer. A cat that I had to take care of. A cat that had to suffer for months because we were a no-kill shelter.

      • chaogomu@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s happened more than once.

        In 2007, a PETA worker in Virginia was arrested and charged with a felony count of theft after she was found to be in possession of a sheriff’s hunting dog. The charge was eventually reduced to a misdemeanor and dismissed entirely in 2008:

        I also can’t actually find any evidence that the employees who took the girl’s dog were fired at all. I’d imagine that it happened after PETA lost the lawsuit, but again, I can’t find it.

        • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          There’s no evidence one way or the other, so clearly the rational thing is to assume the worst about the organization

          On an unrelated note, I’ve never seen you say you don’t hate gay people, so I’ll just start letting people know that chaogomu@kbin.social is a massive homophobe

          As you’ve demonstrated, there being no evidence for the claim isn’t a good reason not to believe it!

          • chaogomu@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            You’re still mindlessly defending a horrible organization that has actually set animal rights back by being horrible.

            For fuck’s sake, they Still claim that milk causes autism.

            Ad hominin attacks won’t change the facts here.

            As to their policy on pets, they’ve compared owning pets to owning slaves. Which leads to this shit.

            Here are more accusations of them stealing pets and falsifying records, to go with the above link where they provably killed adoptable animals and falsified records.