Posted on 09/11/2006 11:36:18 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
Steve Irwin Ripped by PETA: Crocodile Hunter 'Cheap Reality Star' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
By Josh Hart Sep 11, 2006
Steve Irwin has barely been laid to rest but the critics from his enemies already seem to be reveling in the fact that he was killed by an animal. Aussie feminist Germaine Greer got the ball rolling by saying that animals took their revenge on Irwin.
Steve Irwin Ripped by PETA: Crocodile Hunter 'Cheap Reality Star'
"The animal world has finally taken its revenge on Irwin, but probably not before a hole generation of kids in shorts seven sizes too small has learned to shout in the ears of animals with hearing 10 times more acute than theirs, determined to become millionaire animal-loving zoo-owners in their turn," she wrote in a bitter column aimed at getting her publicity.
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Now here comes a member of PETA to pile on.
Jeannette Walls of MSNBC reports that the group's Dan Mathews says that it's "no shock at all" that Irwin died the way he did, and he's also branded Irwin a "cheap reality TV star."
"He made a career out of antagonizing frightened wild animals," says PETA's Mathews, "which is a very dangerous message to send to kids." And Mathews sniffs that Irwin's career wasn't particularly impressive – at least not to him:
"If you compare him with a responsible conservationist like Jacques Cousteau, he looks like a cheap reality TV star."
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Well... that didn't take long.
PETA are despicable.
PETA hated the fact that he loved all of "God's" creation.
I have nothing good to say about PETA.
I smell a movie in that" Revenge of the Vegetables." Vegetarians consider plants live food, but no one has ever heard them scream for their lives when being consumed.
A bunch of phonies. I am an animal lover and respect animal rights. That doesn't mean that I have to be a vegetarian and a liberal.
A bunch of phonies. I am an animal lover and respect animal rights. That doesn't mean that I have to be a vegetarian and a liberal.
The dictionary even defines conservationists and environmentalists differently. Conservationists try to better the planet. Environmentalists are political and say that modern industry is the fault of everything bad in the world. Just my summed up version of the definitions.
ROFLOL!
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