Fur flies over flier: PETA targets ‘Nutcracker’ kids

Boston Herald ^ | 12/17/03 | David Weber

[hellinahandcart]

Animal rights advocates will single out small children at performances of ``The Nutcracker'' in the next few weeks by handing out fliers saying ``Your Mommy Kills Animals'' to youngsters whose mothers are wearing fur.

     ``Children can't look up to a mom in a battered-raccoon hat or a crushed coyote collar,'' said Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. ``Maybe when they're confronted by their own children's hurt looks, fur-wearers' cold hearts will melt.''
     The fliers include a color drawing of a woman plunging a large bloody knife into the belly of a terrified rabbit. The fliers urge kids to ``ask your mommy how many dead animals she killed to make her fur clothes.
     ``And the sooner she stops wearing fur, the sooner the animals will be safe. Until then, keep your doggie or kitty friends away from mommy - she's an animal killer.''
     Brookline child psychologist Dr. Carolyn Newberger called the tactics ``terribly dangerous to children.''
     ``It's using children in the worst possible way,'' she said. ``If (the activists) want to legitimately work to protect animals from destruction for fashion, they have every right to. But to do so by targeting children and making them feel their mothers are murderers is absolutely unconscionable.''
     Lisa Franzetta, a national coordinator for PETA, said the group will launch its ``fur-ocious'' protest at `Nutcracker' performances in as many as 20 cities across the United States.
     Franzetta, who is based in California, said yesterday she did not yet know when the protests will begin in Boston, where ``The Nutcracker'' is playing at the Wang Center for the Performing Arts in the Theater District.
     Franzetta acknowledged the anti-fur campaign might spark a backlash. ``It's definitely provocative, I will give you that,'' she said.
      Wang Center officials could not be reached for comment about the planned protests.

[hellinahandcart]

I went ahead and posted this for you, as it's a very good article. :D

[hellinahandcart]

Save the children from PETA!

[.45MAN]

There is nothing warmer on a freezing cold day as a sheard
lamb coat...

[CharlotteVRWC]

Disgusting....I guess a return question could be,,,'how many abortions have you had, how many babies have you killed?'

[hellinahandcart]

``ask your mommy how many dead animals she killed to make her fur clothes.'

"Mommy, how do you kill a dead animal?"

[sauropod]

I think this article should go on Jodi's door. How about it?

;-)

[.45MAN]

Has amyone ever thought of a PETA skin coat? I don't think it would be very warm.. It wouldn't be worth much either..

[The_Victor]

I wonder how much energy is expended in the production of faux fur? Perhaps a counter to this is "Faux fur causes global warming". Of course, if this were true we would end up not needing fur at all.

[ErnBatavia]

handing out fliers saying ``Your Mommy Kills Animals'' to youngsters whose mothers are wearing fur.

I'm gonna bet they get out about two of those fliers before one of 'em gets "five across the lips"...

[Constitution Day]

What a bunch of bastards!!

BTW, my wife just broke her karakul coat out of storage.
I will have to remind her to wear it more often.

[zook]

Can't we hand out stickers to these PETA folks? Stickers that read, "you've got 10 seconds before I beat the crap out of you."

[Arkinsaw]

It's only a matter of time before liberal litigious culture meets up with liberal animal rights culture. I foresee PETA continuing to push the envelope until it gets its butt sued off at some point. I predict that PETA will end up similar to that Nazi bunch in Idaho. They will take one step too far someday.

[BSunday]

People Embarrassing the Tidewater Area

[Tijeras_Slim]

I'd just point to my boots and ask, "Have you ever been trampled by a dead cow?"

CD- You going to the Wright Bro's celebration today?

[netmilsmom]

>>karakul <<

What is it?

[Lil'freeper]

I said behave! ;)

[LOC1]

Those fliers should be confiscated and returned to the PETA members when they take their kids through MacDonalds.

[sauropod]

You should never have told me.

Now there is no "lockbox" hehe!

[hellinahandcart]

``Children can't look up to a mom in a battered-raccoon hat or a crushed coyote collar,''

Damned straight. If Mommy's fur is that tattered, Daddy needs to buy her a new one for Christmas...