No matter how much you may love animals, can we just all agree that PETA has become the worst? They’re obnoxious turds who actually kill thousands of animals, not to mention they have some of the stupidest, most cloying advertising not dreamed up by Crispin Porter. Now they’ve put up a billboard mocking a man who was attacked by a shark.
Twenty-one-year-old C.J. Wickersham was spear fishing this past weekend in the Gulf of Mexico off Anna Maria Island near the Tampa Bay area. A nine-foot bull shark came up and bit Wickersham in his thigh. The attack left a 15-inch gash that exposed his thigh bone. The attack itself wasn’t life threatening, but he most likely would have drowned if his friends didn’t rescue him.
Wickersham is still recovering in the hospital.
The attack happened Saturday. Today is Wednesday, and PETA has already come around with plans for a graphic billboard mocking Wickersham (see above).
“It may be an unusual way to get the message across, but I think it will cause people to be more sensitive towards fish,” PETA’s Ashely Byrne tells WWSB. “We are certainly glad the man is going to be alright, but we hope he and other fishermen will use this as an opportunity to rethink fishing.”
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I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, FUCK PETA. Preaching hate will never further your cause, no matter how morally/ethically superior it may be.
Beagles are the dog breed most often used in animal testing, due to their size and passive nature. Most dogs are bred specifically for the purpose, by companies such as Harlan. … The dogs are often used in surgical experiments and toxicology tests, according to LA journalist Lu Parker. It’s common for labs to remove the dogs’ vocal chords so their cries don’t bother the technicians, and Parker alleges that some facilities beat and kick the dogs.
It’s absolutely shocking news: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has publicly admitted it is responsible for the mass poisoning of tens of millions of birdsover the last several years. It’s all part of the USDA’s program called “Bye Bye Blackbird,” and we even have the USDA’s spreadsheet where they document how many millions of birds (and other animals) they’ve poisoned to death.
Not all the mysterious bird die-offs that have been witnessed around the globe recently are due to unexplained causes. A recent mass die-off event witnessed in Yankton, South Dakota was traced back to the USDA which admitted to carrying out a mass poisoning of the birds.
So why was the USDA poisoning birds in the first place? A Nebraska farmer was apparently complaining that the starlings were defecating in his feed meal. The answer to this conundrum apparently isn’t to cover your feed meal but rather call the USDA and ask them to poison thousands of birds.
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Oh, okay then.
“200 years ago, Americans would have thought you were absurd if you advocated for the end of slavery. 150 years ago, they would have laughed at you for suggesting that women should have the right to vote. 75 years ago, they would have loudly objected to the idea of African Americans receiving equal rights under the law. They laugh at us now for suggesting that animal slavery be ended. Someday they won’t be laughing.” - Gary Smith
(Source: treekisser, via freedomthroughpiracy)
A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms.
This documentary exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our modern industrial system of meat and poultry production.
Even though this documentary pertains particularly to the mass-“cultivation” of animals for food, many of these same environmental and social ramifications still apply to any other factory-farming outlet you can think of.
