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Animal rights activists waste no time with Dasburg
PETA has gotten '''Babe's owner'' to drop a love note to Burger King's new CEO, John Dasburg. James Cromwell, nominated for an Oscar for his role as the farmer in "Babe," has written Dasburg asking that he do his part in alleviating "some of the immense and unnecessary suffering endured by the millions of animals Burger King uses for its restaurants."
The letter was mailed to a Minnesota address for Dasburg, the outgoing prez and CEO at Northwest Airlines, although Burger King's HQ is in Florida.
The deal offered by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is simple, Cromwell wrote. "If Burger King pledges to meet even the very minimum animal welfare guidelines McDonald's has now adopted and to keep PETA informed on its progress, the campaign against Burger King, which is just getting off the ground, will be put on hold."
PETA spokesman Joey Penello tells me the campaign already involves the PETA Web site MurderKing.com, but would expand to include protests at Burger King restaurants. Penello, from Norfolk, Va., said McDonald's cleaned up its act to the point that "we put Ronald McDonald on probation, maybe.
That's what freed us up to focus on a new target.'' Penello said Cromwell ''has been a vegetarian for many, many years, then after 'Babe' he went vegan.'' His letter says, ''Making 'Babe' opened my eyes to the intelligence and personality of pigs, and their capacity for love, joy and sadness in such a way that I am now a lifetime advocate for them.'' On Monday, Dasburg's NWA assistant got a BK rep in Florida to call me with the promise of a faxed statement that never came.
C.J. can be contacted at 332-TIPS or cj@startribune.com.
© Copyright 2001 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.
Anyone notice how much often FR is getting spamed lately from certain PETA posters? [Not you Valin]
I forget all their names but there is a certain freepergirl, CattyNancy, and others. One PETA activists posted an article yesterday that claimed vegetarianism would reduce the number of abortions. Before I could respond, the article was pulled. The poster's profile showed she [I'm guessing it was a woman] had just registered the same day.
Do we have a PETA problem?
Do we have a PETA problem?
Well I have a PROBLEM with them.
Maybe they want to get into a flame war? Be like shooting fish in a barrel.
That does it; I'm having a Double Whopper (tm) with bacon and cheese for lunch!
"opened my eyes to the intelligence and personality of pigs, and their capacity for love, joy and sadness in such a way that I am now a lifetime advocate for them.''
Get a job, pay taxes, join the richest one percent.
"If Burger King pledges to meet even the very minimum animal welfare guidelines McDonald's has now adopted and to keep PETA informed on its progress, the campaign against Burger King, which is just getting off the ground, will be put on hold."
Screw you, you extortionist dirtbags.
I have been in flame wars with them. And they always go off complaining to Jim Robinson when the conversation turns to abortion.
They see no hypocrisy in advocating kindness to animals, even if it means taking away hunting and eating rights of others, and advocating abortion. One Freepergirl even stated that abortion should be legal until the child is old enough to object.
I told her that was how I felt about pork chops.
"do we have a PETA problem?"
the way to shut them down is not to respond to their dumb posts. I know that when I post, I keep coming back to see if it is still "alive". Let their post die and they will soon leave!
The Peta idiots don't realize that by picketing and threatening, Burger King will enjoy much more business than usual.
"That does it; I'm having a Double Whopper (tm) with bacon and cheese for lunch!
Double that bacon in support of Babe.
PETA has gotten '''Babe's owner'' to drop a love note to Burger King's new CEO, John Dasburg. James Cromwell, nominated for an Oscar for his role as the farmer in "Babe," has written Dasburg asking that he do his part in alleviating "some of the immense and unnecessary suffering endured by the millions of animals Burger King uses for its restaurants."
Oh please, since when does BK serve PORK?
Damn. I'm suddenly in the mood for some bacon.
"That does it; I'm having a Double Whopper (tm) with bacon and cheese for lunch! Double that bacon in support of Babe.
I'll say the blessing:
Good food! Good meat! Good, God! Let's EAT!!!
opened my eyes to the intelligence and personality of pigs...I am now a lifetime advocate for them
I'm a lifetime advocate, too: they taste awful good in BLT's, and those honey baked hams are great at the holidays!
I forget all their names but there is a certain freepergirl, CattyNancy, and others. One PETA activists posted an article yesterday that claimed vegetarianism would reduce the number of abortions. Before I could respond, the article was pulled. The poster's profile showed she [I'm guessing it was a woman] had just registered the same day. Do we have a PETA problem?
You know, I LOVE animals, but I am a meat eater and will continue to be. While I do not condone mistreat towards animals in slaughter houses, PETA is beyond rational activism. Remember, the NYC ad with Rudy Guiliani with the milk mustache? Got cancer? That's pretty sick.
While I do not condone mistreat towards animals in slaughter houses
I agree.
And if the left can advocate "death with dignity" for humans, they should not be opposed to "death with dignity" in the meat packing plants.
Do we have a PETA problem?
Have any of y'all seen their headquarters down Norfolk way? It's a really fancy, mod-glass 5 or 6 story office building in the middle of the restored waterfront. It just screams "money". I haven't been able to find out how much it cost their donors, but I get the feeling they don't want us to know. (For contrast, the NRA likes to brag about the good deal they got on a mod-glass office building in Fairfax Co.)
AB
...honey baked hams are great at the holidays...
Whatcha' mean holidays? I cooked one this past Sunday - MMMMMMMMMM good!
"opened my eyes to the intelligence and personality of pigs,"
You must stay away from Washington DC I believe that it is affecting you in a bad way.
Isn't that extortion?
His letter says, ''Making 'Babe' opened my eyes to the intelligence and personality of pigs, and their capacity for love, joy and sadness in such a way that I am now a lifetime advocate for them.''
So, just how many pigs do you keep in your home Mr. Penello?
And while you're at it, do something about that name "PENello". It is extremely offensive to animals to hear the word "pen".
And...How about starting a campaign against "native Americans" to stop naming themselves after animals. How demeaning to have a human humiliate a noble animal like a horse by calling himself Crazy Horse.
This was published in the Sierra Times on 3/18/01.If this PETA infestation starts gaining the support of government they will be able to inflict some real damage. Note that it was a Republican who introduced the bill. What is he thinking?
NV: License Plate Bill Introduced to Support PETA A Nevada Senator has introduced a bill that would create a new fundraising scheme for the anti-hunting organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA). Sen. Raymond Rawson (R-Las Vegas) is sponsoring Senate Bill 54, which would create a special license plate to raise funds for PeTA. If the bill passes, PeTA will receive $25 for every new plate and $20 for every renewed plate. The bill is currently on the Senate Floor. If it passes there, it will move to the State Assembly where it will be assigned to the Transportation Committee.
That does it; I'm having a Double Whopper (tm) with bacon and cheese for lunch!
My very thoughts!
Isn't it amazing how GREAT MINDS think alike!
PETA tells Burger King---"Please adopt a tofu based menu or put yourselves out of business."
If Burger King pledges to meet even the very minimum animal welfare guidelines McDonald's has now adopted and to keep PETA informed on its progress, the campaign against Burger King, which is just getting off the ground, will be put on hold."
Right from the Je$$e Jack$on 'Extortion 101' course of meeting and influencing the people.
The Peta idiots don't realize that by picketing and threatening, Burger King will enjoy much more business than usual.
Of course realizing would require them to think...and that would mean they would have to use their brains. This is an impossibility as their brains are busy with controlling breathing, pumping blood, and controling their bladders.
I must admit that I do HATE PETA and what they stand for. I know....How un-PC.....Me thinks I will check myself into an anger management/re-education center
NOT! :)
PETA tells Burger King---"Please Adopt a tofu based menu or put yourselves out of business."
My mistake.
>Right from the Je$$e Jack$on 'Extortion 101' course of meeting and influencing the people.
Boy, you got that right...
These people would eat their own to save a pig!
In their honor, BK should introduce a "Nutty Burger".
"Right from the Je$$e Jack$on 'Extortion 101' course of meeting and influencing the people."
I was gonna say that, I swear!
Bump!
You know, they ought to put their money where their mouths are.
Challenge to PETA:
Open up a chain of fast food places with a tofu-based menu.
Advertise heavily.
Oh, and do an IPO so I can sell the stock very, very short. ;^)
About 6 years ago I had a run in with some of these "turkeys." I was at a major outdoor political function, with about 10,000 other folks. It was November, and dang cold - so I had on my big winter coat - which happens to be a full length fake fur. I was walking with another lobbyist and 3 State Senators (we were headed for the warming libations) when the jeering from behind started. "Animal Killer" "How many of god's creatures did you kill for that coat?" etc., etc.
After about 20 yards of this BS, I'd had enough and stopped in my tracks and turned on them - in addition to telling them they were stupid if they couldn't tell fake from real, I let out a stream of invective that would make most sailors I know blush.
I then realized I had made a spectacle of myself in front of the Senators and was afraid to turn back to them. When I did, all 3 of them were practically on the ground laughing. It was the one and only time I remember Senators buying the drinks for a lobbyist!!!!! (and 2 of the 3 were dems!)
Can I get in on the ground floor?????
I saw one of these folks throw blood on a biker wearing a leather jacket....This is a good working definition of A BAD IDEA!
"I was walking with another lobbyist and 3 State Senators (we were headed for the warming libations) when the jeering from behind started. "Animal Killer" "How many of god's creatures did you kill for that coat?" etc., etc."
I took a friend and her young daughters to the ballet. The youngest one was wearing a mink stole--an heirloom from her grandmother. The minks had died circa 1930. At intermission, an idiot passing our seats sneered down at her and said something about harming animals. This was a 7 year old child! I was seething. When he came back, heading for his seat, I looked him in the eye and said, "We had veal for dinner, too!"
--Boris
PETA. Ever notice that at 50 those wierdos look like they have no muscle and are hunched over? PETA = Whimps.
I think I would have extended a leather clad foot and allowed him to trip over it!
mmmm, did someone say steak?
''Making 'Babe' opened my eyes to the intelligence and personality of pigs, and their capacity for love, joy and sadness in such a way that I am now a lifetime advocate for them.''
He's kidding, right?
I wonder if the idiot was wearing leather shoes??? I'd beat you they weren't nogahide(sp?) or plastic.
Matthew 13
"I will open My mouth in parables;
I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world."
The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares
Another parable He put forth to them, saying:
"The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. So the servants of the owner came and said to him, "Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?' He said to them, "An enemy has done this.' The servants said to him, "Do you want us then to go and gather them up?' But he said, "No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, "First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.""'
There’s the abortion bundle, the homosexual bundle, and of course the animal rights bundle. Romans 1:18-32
"opened my eyes to the intelligence and personality of pigs, and their capacity for love, joy and sadness in such a way that I am now a lifetime advocate for them."
Hillary, Rosie, Cher, and the rest of the NAGS really appreciate this kind of support
"I wonder if the idiot was wearing leather shoes??? I'd beat you they weren't nogahide(sp?) or plastic."
Naugahide. Think of all the innocent Naugas that died so we could have this wonderful stuff.
--Boris
"I wonder if the idiot was wearing leather shoes??? I'd beat you they weren't nogahide(sp?) or plastic."
Naugahyde. [yes, that is the correct spelling!] Think of all the innocent Naugas that died so we could have this wonderful stuff.
--Boris
On the rare occasions that I have been in a Burger King I can truthfully say that I have never seen a hamburger patty suffer.
I LOVE PORK CHOPS but what is "spamed"?
seen it before, "who SPAMED rush?" ETC...
spamed = spay-med.... what the heck is that?
FREE THE NAUGAS!! NAUGA KILLING HAS GONE ON TOO LONG!
I SPAME ALL THOSE WHO KILL NAUGAS!
some of my best freinds were naugas, before the naugacaust.
So, is Al Sharpton gonna take on PETA? This oughta be fun!
"Please adopt a tofu based menu or put yourselves out of business."
Not if I have anything to say about it. My son has suddenly discovered chicken tenders - first meat he will eat since toddlerhood, and I'm thrilled. We're there a couple of times a week. (Having a hard-case picky eater, this is a major victory!)
FreePaul, just because you have never seen a hamburger patty suffer does not mean that patty-injustice does not occur. Patty injustice has been going on for centuries without notice, the patty league of europe now has it's own website, www.meat-no-good-4-you.com...(.mad.cow.org) please try to be a bit more sensitive toward the patty element in your community, and remember, dead cattle are people, too..
I'm confused.
Burger King and McDonalds sell hamburgers, their customers go there to buy and eat hamburgers,
I'd be willing to bet most of their customers are not PETA members.
So why should BK or Mickey D's give a rat's a$$ what PETA wants?
Smith and Wesson, who sell guns, gave into non-gun owners and look what happened to them.
I had their fish sandwich for lunch. Too bad I couldn't order veal.
I can see why the cows are mad. Wouldn't you be mad if you lived your whole life just to be cooked and eaten and then find out you are going to be shot and burned.
If you see a PETA protester outside a BK, buy them a burger.
That scenario would bum me out entirely...
look to the plight of the underpriveleged American steak..
purchased at Albertsons meat market, it stands no chance of having it's voice heard, it's statement made...viciously seasoned and thrown mercilessly upon my grill.. oh, the shame...how can I look myself in the face?
Corona helps, but FOR HOW LONG?
Next!
I just have to do this!
''Making 'Babe' opened my eyes to the intelligence and personality of pigs, and their capacity for love, joy and sadness in such a way that I am now a lifetime advocate for them.''
Besides,he said,"A pig like that you just don't eat all at once!"
''Making 'Babe' opened my eyes to the intelligence and personality of pigs, and their capacity for love, joy and sadness in such a way that I am now a lifetime advocate for them.'' yep, gotta love them pigs when fried southern-style, or hell, shake-n-bake is good, too....and let's save them ribs 'till saturday so i can whup up a good sauce.
Let PETA target Burger King, as long as the stay away from "Jack in the Box!" The Ultimate Cheeseburger is the greatest!
I love my hamburgers, the more tortured they are before they die, the better!
HA!
''Making 'Babe' opened my eyes to the intelligence and personality of pigs, and their capacity for love, joy and sadness in such a way that I am now a lifetime advocate for them.'' yep, gotta love them pigs when fried southern-style, or hell, shake-n-bake is good, too
Ain't nothin' like a good bbq shredded pork sammich ...
YUMMY!
If you see a PETA protester outside a BK, buy them a burger
Totally ignoring their bizzare beliefs, if the protesters are women and hopefully scantily clad, it isn't a protest rally... I call it dinner and a show. Best thing is I don't have to slip them dollar bills HAHAHAR
Think of all the innocent Naugas that died so we could have this wonderful stuff.
ROFL!!!
FREE THE NAUGAS!!
It's quite obvious to me that you've never run into a heard of wild naugi(the plural of nauga). nasty vicious little buggers, we hates them yes we does. the only thing that keeps them under control here in Mn. are the snowsnakes.
time for a burger. I make it a point that every time PETA pulls some idiotic stunt I go eat meat. Hmm..that might explain my expanding waistline!
Just a suggestion but next time you're at BK try the Chicken Club and have them add cheese. Good stuff.
Can do.
I whine less because I eat more meat.
I"ll trade you my share of brusselsprouts for your share of porkchops? Tell you what...I'll even sweeten the deal and throw in beets. What do you says?
WHATS THEIR BEEF?
Burger King doesnt use BEEF in their burgers.
They use PETA protestors LOL
I was boycotting Burger King. Not anymore. A Whopper with cheese for lunch. Lamb on the barbie for dinner.
5.56mm
We get it, slick.
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