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  1. Al Gorman from Canada writes: Distasteful, appalling, irrevokably insensitive to this young man's family. PETA needs to give its head a shake...abolutely shameful!
  2. CD W from Canada writes: peta believes truly that a boy is a dog is a rat is a cow. They would rather abort a child than have a steak, and this is their moral failing, ours is not saying so.
  3. Jake Richardson from Kingston, Canada writes: Animal Rights? Great. PETA? Horrible.

    Stuff like this hurts their cause more than it helps.
  4. Michael Sharp from Victoria, Canada writes:

    Common Sense 1
    PETA 0
  5. Sandra T from Stroud, Canada writes: While I do understand where PETA is coming from in saying that many animals on factory run farms are treated inhumanely and live in terrible conditions...(all the more reason to support small sustainable farms)....BUT to equate this to the horrific circumstances of Tim McLean's death, is beyond bad taste. PETA needs to rethink and remove their 'ad'....it is hurtful and disrespectful of Tim McLean and his grieving family.
  6. simon blackadder from richmond hill, ontario, Canada writes: i can't believe PETA would be so callous as to use this tragic event as a publicity-hounding tactic. they are pathetic, and i have lost all respect for the organization.

    absolutely disgusting.

    s.
  7. Eat your Weedies from Canada writes: Just when I think PETA is about as chalk-a-block full of eggheads as possible, they amaze me again! BRAVO! It is amazingly funny that an organization that professes compassion could be so shockingly tasteless and tactless and insensitive. I say save the animals and sacrifice PETA.
  8. Jasper the Black Lab from Canada writes: Not at all unexpected from PETA. Shows how in-touch they are with reality.
  9. Karen Lieberman from Toronto, Canada writes: Haven't they ever heard of too soon? Seriously... their marketing department needs to give their heads a shake. This is just vile and horribly insensitive.
  10. R. M. from Regina, Canada writes: I for one emailed PETA in the United States to express my disgust and will ensure as many of my friends (some of whom are PETA supporters) are aware of this appalling lack of class. Thank you Portage for rejecting the ad!!! PETA is off my list forever!
  11. Jack Sprat from Canada writes: That's PETA, just trying to capatalize on others mis-fortunes.

    P E T A - Please Eat Tasty Animals
  12. Jim Goodwin from Canada writes: It just shows the lengths they will go to, in order to push their silly agenda. Bad taste at best despicable at worst. I think I will stick with despicable
  13. Dawn from Minnesota from Minnesota, United States writes: How tasteless!
  14. J C from Toronto, Canada writes: PETA. They totally disgust me.
    How can they compare the life of an innocent man that was lost to animals? How will the family of the victim feel when they read this news? PETA supporters think that the life of an animal is the same as the life of a person. I have a dog, a very cute Shitzu that I love. But I cannot compare the life of my dog to an innocent man that was killed.
    PETA should close down. Shame. PETA has its head backwards.
  15. Another Opinion from Toronto, Canada writes: PETA may be big on the ethical treatment of animals, but apparently they don't much care how human beings are treated.

    Their attempt to profit on a vicious murder is reprehensible. They want this to make me think? Fine. I think someone should turn THEIR personal tragedies into a media carnival.

    One less charity I'll have to worry about donating to.
  16. Bill G from Calgary, Canada writes: PETA should be ignored. Period.
  17. haji georges from Canada writes: Ok cut the bull,,anyone from peta use makeup? its all made from animal fat,,leather shoes purses belts.there are a million things from animals we use and eat.While im against cruelty to animals i am also against the likes of this group called peta when they can try and run an ad like this,you people have zero brains and need a life.Shame on you hypocrites Shame on you!
  18. Brad Collins from Calgary, Canada writes: Wow, that`s just sick. PETA continuously show their true colours again and again - which just destroys what little goodwill they had left with the public.

    I can`t, for the life of me, see how anyone could support them. Like someone said earlier, animal rights is one thing, but PETA are just terrorists. Plain and simple.

    Attempting to profit from this tragedy. How absolutely shameful.
  19. neil b from edmonton, Canada writes: I can only hope they do not receive gov. funding. To elevate the animal kingdom to that of human suffering completely lacks compassion. This militant orginization needs to go away.
  20. Juan Valasquez from Canada writes: Why does PETA care about whether or not animals are treated humanely?

    Animals are not human. Therefore they will not ever be treated humanely.

    Ahhh...PETA...what to do with them.
  21. Mike McFae from Canada writes: I belong to PETA - people eating tasting animals :-) The only way to respond to these crazy people is to stop donating to them . Spread the word.
  22. mighty conan from Calgary, Canada writes: Is anyone surprised given the source? This is just the worst example. PETA could care less who they offend as long as they get their point across. Ignore them.
  23. D JL from Canada writes: Boycott any paper that publishes the ad. This includes paper & online. It is a sick reference to a horrendous act. It is in no way comparable to the death of an animal.

    Oh, and . Pamela, what was that you drove up to KFC in? Guess you care about the animals more that the envirnment, which will also impact the poor little animals.
  24. Ashley MacIsaac from Toronto, Canada writes: This proves the disgracefulness of people.Until people stop treating animals like poeple,they will treat people like animals.
    I cannot believe this story somuch thatI had to write in. I have a pet.She even talks- a blue fronted maccaw-but she is an animal.
    recently I was asked to perform at a rally for rasing money to challenge Canad's animal laws- to make them considered companions rather than Propert as they are today.I had to tellthe person=- I like my bird but if I was starving Id eat her.Now that may be a little extreme- as we live in a country where anyone can get free food,however my point is this- Animals are not people.People make bad desicions yes- but most people are genuinly compassionate I truely beleive.Of coruse with the greed inthe world- 1 billion are obeses whilest 1 billion are starving.Stop treating animals like people,treat people like human beings for a change.
    peta desrves to be black listed forever from any canadian events promoting any kind of tolerence for animal welfare-becuase this proves they are not in any way ittlegent as they animals they try apparently to protect.Let pamale Andreson be there spokesperson- perfect fit-Ill eat KFC any day- at least their breast s are real.
  25. Phil G from Ottawa, Canada writes: First that nutty cult from the US wanting to picket the funeral; now PETA exploiting this tragedy to support their bent viewpoint. PETA = cult. Both have twisted ideas about life and humanity.
  26. Chuck the Canuk from anytown, Canada writes: omg !!! who in the hell do these peta idiots think they are? what a disgusting thing to do. apparently its ok to kill and maim and murder people all over the globe if your a terrorist, but just don't do it in a way that they will compare to killing animals???? what a bunch of holier than thou hipocrites. they are disgusting. i'm now glad i BBQ my ribs and steaks and chicken legs. YUMMMMY PETA... want some??? i hope you go the way of the dodos that you are.
  27. David M from Calgary, Canada writes: It is hard to believe that anyone supports PETA's radical and now obscene positions. It isn't hard to see that PETA supporters live a sheltered and naive life.
  28. guy tozer from Saskatoon, Canada writes: PETA has been BSing the public for years , with outrgeous videos, and comments to further their cause. This is the height of outlandishness. Down with Peta.
  29. Pamphleteer . from Canada writes: ugh, I am the biggest animal lover and vegetarian out there...but this really steps over the line. Someone has poop for brains at PETA (not everyone -- they do do some good work, but this initiative is really repulsive).
  30. Mark B from Canada writes: Pretty tactless on the part of PETA given the timing and the extreme sensitivity about this issue right now. But....in terms of the point they're trying (rather inartfully) to make, well, it's true that many of the animals we eat are raised in unthinkably dreadful conditions and slaughtered in often horrific, painful ways. Eating meat may not in itself be inherently wrong but I hope our current system of factory farming and brutal slaughter will one day be seen for the disgrace that it is. I guess PETA was trying to shock people into recognizing this self-evident truth. Probably not a very effective strategy though.
  31. Wayne Walker from Canada writes: Hard to believe that anyone could be so insensitive. They have crossed the line from being a joke to being obnoxious.
  32. N. C. from Canada writes: I actually DO believe quite strongly in animal rights. I believe that, at the very least, if we are going to eat them, we should at least terminate them humanely, and provide them with an acceptable quality of life up until that point. Most factory farms do not bother with such considerations, and the quality of the meat we eat suffers (as well as the animals themselves). Mistreated animals are not healthy animals, and do not produce healthy meat. Also - it is wrong to cause other living beings to suffer, regardless of whether you consider them a 'lesser' form of life.

    BUT - trauma-inducing tactics like PETA's are not the way to go about encouraging humane treatment of animals, and efforts such as this merely polarize people who disagree with the extremism of their messages against animal rights. To use the Greyhound case so soon afterwards in a way so obviously and selfishly pursuing their political agenda is ghastly.

    Please, for anyone reading this who is tempted to be irritated by the whole animal rights movement - we're not all like PETA. Some of us are actually rational individuals.
  33. Mike McFae from Canada writes: If I were a little more computer literate I would start a website dedicated to eliminating PETA's funding. Any takers.
  34. R Miller from Halifax, Canada writes: Is there any limit to which Pornstars Embracing Tasty Animals (PETA) will not stoop ?

    Apparently not.

    Cheers
  35. Tiberius Oderint dum probent from Canada writes: PETA shows its true colours.
  36. Jonathan C from Toronto, Canada writes: Please go and look at the PETA ad through the link and write some comments. There are people applauding and encouraging the ad. It makes me want to puke.
    http://blog.peta.org/archives/2008/08/cannibalistic_a.php
  37. Alistair McLaughlin from Canada writes: What do you expect from an organization that considers the use of guide dogs to be akin to slavery. These people are nuts, and have long outlived any usefulness they may have had (which was nothing).
  38. J Planet from Everywhere, Canada writes: What a class act. Keep it coming, PETA. Take all the rope you need.
  39. Lance M from Canada writes: Everytime I turn around I see this 'organization' doing something decidely unethical. Radical and extreme are kind ways to describe their views and actions. Extremes often lead to violence, and it would seem they revel in it.
  40. Who Are You from Canada writes: Well said , N.C. from Canada.

    As appalled as I am about PETA's insensitivity with this ad, I'm equally appalled by the posters above who seem to think an animal doesn't feel pain just because it's lower in the food chain.
  41. Bill Grigg from Kelowna, Canada writes: I like vegetarians. More meat for me!

    PETA needs to learn some ethical behaviour before lecturing the rest of us.
  42. Jack Simpson from Williams Lake BC, Canada writes: Not really surprising of PETA. After all, they are radicals and this kind of behavior is 'normal' for radicals, right?
    EVERYONE and ANYONE considering support for PETA should be reminded of this act of ugliness.
  43. Chester Mere from near calgary, Canada writes: Peta wins. Again. Doesn't anyone see through their strategy? They will claim to try to run an ad knowing they will be turned down. So when the paper or billboard co or whatever turns away their business it becomes a story in various media and they get free publicity. They must have supporters at the G&M and other media because I can't believe papers fall for this every time. They never have to pay even for the original ad. I think the Portage paper should have published it with a disclaimer so at least some of their funding would be used up and they couldn't claim they were having their speech censored.....This is a vintage PETA tactic.Though I must say that this episode is tasteless even by their standards.
  44. Jason Roy from Central Nova, Canada writes: Just another example of the true face of the animal rights movement and their sheep exposed. 'Even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it.' -- Ingrid Newkirk, President, PETA (Vogue, September, 1989). 'Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.' -- Ingrid Newkirk, PETA's President, The Washington Post, November 13, 1983. 'In a war you have to take up arms and people will get killed, and I can support that kind of action by petrol bombing and bombs under cars, and probably at a later stage, the shooting of vivisectors on their doorsteps. It's a war, and there's no other way you can stop vivisectors.' -- Tim Daley, British Animal Liberation Front Leader (BBC interview, 1987). 'We are capable of dealing with anyone. No one has died yet but that time will come'. -- Keith Mann of ALF, as quoted in the Evening Standard [London, Dec. 8, 1998). Mann was sentenced in 1994 to 14 years in prison for leading a gang which, in 1991, attacked almost 700 businesses in Manchester, UK. 'I would be overjoyed when the first scientist is killed by a liberation activist.' -- Vivien Smith of ALF (USA Today, September 3, 1991).
  45. haji georges from Canada writes: If that was my son that was btutaly murdered and such a catastrophy used peta,I would sue the pants off them,they would never be open for business again,,,PERIOD
  46. Iain's Opinion from Canada writes: Some people.
  47. Scenic Sask! from Canada writes: The G&M needs to have a NEW editor! One that will not allow this type of extreme idiocy to get publicity. SHAME on the G&M for capitalizing on the unfortunate Mr. McLean.
  48. Ken Macdonald from WINNIPEG, Canada writes: This ad is appalling and shows no compassion to the family of Tim McLean who are mourning the loss of their son. Its is disgusting for PETA to try to capitalize on this tragedy which has been widely reported and now they are trying to ride on the coat tails of all the media.

    Remember this is the same organization that fought KFC over its animal practices and then parades scantily cladded women in lettuce bikinis in front of the Portage Avenue location to promote their new veggie offering.

    PETA has no credibility in my eyes anymore and I would encourage Canadians to boycott PETA.
  49. Steve McCoy from Canada writes: Does anyone at PETA have any compassion for the victim and the victims family and friends???...or even humans for that matter??? If you ever been to their website, you would know they don't. I've seen less scantly clad women on Coyote Ugly than I have on PETA''s website.
    I am willing to bet anyone who supports PETA would rather do so, than support a real cause, such as The Lung Association, even if they're own children and loved ones have died from asthma.
  50. Cyrus Ravage from An over-taxed city in Ontario, Canada writes: PETA awareness just increased exponentially, like the ad or not. Merciless methodical slaughter is the message, and when you think about it... makes one want to opt for the salad next meal out.
  51. Hmmmer ? from Recovery, Canada writes: Thoughtless anger?

    When you all say, PETA should give their heads a shake or they got their heads backwards.

    Is that a pun?

    Or did they make their point?

    Hmmmer. Things that make ya go, gotcha?
  52. Patrick Kirk from Calgary, Canada writes: PETA - you disgust me.
  53. S.L. S from Small Town, Canada writes: WOW! This is a totally new low for PETA
  54. Mike Witcher from montreal, Canada writes: I think that we should show equal disgust with the Globe and Mail
    for even carrying stories about PETA. They get far too much media coverage in Canada. They deserve none.
    Without media coverage they would wither and die.
  55. Scenic Sask! from Canada writes: The G&M needs to FIRE the editor that allowed this new LOW platform for peta to get publicity.

    DISGUSTING reportage.
  56. Neo Conservative from --> http:hallsofmacadamia.blogspot.com, Canada writes:
    'Margie, honey... get me the bolt gun...
    it's definitely time to thin the herd.'
  57. Chris H from Vancouver, Canada writes: I'm going to go out and buy a roast chicken right now, just so PETA doesn't win.
  58. R Miller from Halifax, Canada writes: Come to think of it, it is, at least, interesting how many times PETA's issues do end up getting published as a top story in the 'national newspaper.'

    From these threads, it is obvious that many Canadians couldn't care less what these particular nutters think...

    Yes, Hmmmm..... indeed.
  59. Ed Long from Canada writes: Nice
  60. Greg D from Canada writes: People for the Unethical Treatment of Humans is more like it.. Peta is a cult and will forever have cult mentality.. Each and every member should be ashamed of themselves for supporting advertisements such as this one!
  61. S.L. S from Small Town, Canada writes: This entire thread has only made me hungry. I'm off to make a nice thick ham sandwich. Thanks PETA.
  62. Pete N from Seoul, Korea, Rep. of writes: I would encourage those who are upset to go to the PETA website and leave a message under their blog like I did. This is disgusting, rude, disrespectful,etc..etc..etc...
    http://blog.peta.org/archives/2008/08/cannibalistic_a.php
  63. Hmmmer ? from Recovery, Canada writes: Steve McCoy from Canada writes: Does anyone at PETA have any compassion for the victim and the victims family and friends???...or even humans for that matter??? If you ever been to their website, you would know they don't. I've seen less scantly clad women on Coyote Ugly than I have on PETA''s website.
    I am willing to bet anyone who supports PETA would rather do so, than support a real cause, such as The Lung Association, even if they're own children and loved ones have died from asthma.

    --------------------------

    Steve (not the real McCoy)says, 'even if they're own children and loved ones have died from asthma'.

    Give your head a shake! (pardon the pun)

    You said, >>'I've seen less scantly clad women on Coyote Ugly than I have on PETA''s website'. You watch that? eeww!

    Thanks for the 'scantily clad' referral though, I like Jenna, she's brunet!

    BTW I'll take your bet, even money, for $100,000.00 right now!

    I'll give the winning $200,000.00 to...your choice of Greenpeace or PETA!

    C'mon boy what ya gonna do now?!

    Hmmmer. Things that make ya go, hmmm?
  64. Brad Reddekopp from Hazelton, British Columbia, Canada writes:
    I am completely unsurprised that PeTA would do something so disgusting. After all, they've previously equated the commercial slaughter of pigs with the WW II holocaust.

    Anyone who wants more reasons to despise PeTA should visit petakillsanimals.com
  65. Tim London from Canada writes: If we weren't supposed to eat animals why are they made of meat?
  66. Hmmmer ? from Recovery, Canada writes: Mike Witcher from montreal, Canada writes: I think that we should show equal disgust with the Globe and Mail
    for even carrying stories about PETA. They get far too much media coverage in Canada. They deserve none.
    Without media coverage they would wither and die.

    -----------------

    Mikey, so, you're saying 'shoot the messenger'?

    What stories should they carry?

    You say, 'Without media coverage they would wither and die'.

    How do you know that?

    Hmmmer. Things that make ya go, hmmm?
  67. Steve McCoy from Canada writes: Hey Hmmmer...or whatever dumb disguise you wanna hide behind...first, learn how to spell brunette right...then get some brains and make some real arguments....ill bet 200,000 that you can't.

    I am glad you attacked my comment because it shows just how truthful it really is.
  68. David Gibson from Hamilton, Canada writes: I would not have chosen to compare to the Tim McLean story. However, PETA is more correct than incorrect in its analogies. Other species have children, mates, emotions - not least of all an instinctive fear of death, as we do - and can smell blood and death and fear in the slaughterhouse. We ignore all this because it is convenient to do so, and because we can, and because we are morally on the same plain as most species, and worse than many, although it is hard to compare. I don't object to people eating meat, but I object to them thinking that it comes from Loblaws. Perhaps, at age 21, everyone should have to kill their food with a bolt gun knife for a short time. Yes, a one week spell in a slaughterhouse for meat-eaters. Yes, I was a farm-boy, I know how it's done.
  69. Jack O'Douley from Canada writes: PETA just tells the truth. Animals like pigs, cows, and chickens feel fear and pain just like we do. Intellectually we're different. Emotionally we're much the same. Well, people who don't care about this enormous suffering... just don't care. Whine, bray, chuckle, moan... whatever... PETA just tells the truth. You don't like the truth.... too bad.
  70. Jeff Smyth from Oakbank Manitoba, Canada writes: Congratulations to the editor of the Daily Graphic for turning down Peta's ad. Someone in the media that has shown some dignity and character.
    Peta is like a child having a tantrum. The more attention you give them the more they go on. Foolish stunts like this one only discredit their organization. This sad tragedy has shaken our entire Province. My condolences to the McLean family.
  71. Mothers Talk from Toxic planet dead earth, Canada writes: 'think about the terror and pain experienced by animals who are raised and killed for food.'

    The real terrorists
  72. Kory Eastman from SK, Canada writes: As passionate as PETA is for it's cause, they are blind to the 'unethical' tactic they have used. I hope that at some point they stop patting themselves on the back for the media attention they have garnered and realize how incredibly emotionally cruel they have been to the loved ones of young Mr. McLean.

    They have compared the senseless, vile murder of Mr. McLean to the inhumane slaughter of animals. I can only hope that those individuals never suffer the shock and grief of losing a loved one in such a horrific way and to have a group, with no regard for the beauty and character that made their loved one special, equate their loss to the butchering of animals for feed.

    Treatment of animals could be improved in our food industry but due to the treatment of humans by PETA, I no longer care. Your actions speak volumes to your lack of character. Drink your Kool-Aid and ignore the pain of others. Maybe you would make some positive gains with your cause by using a different approach.

    I wish PETA could be boycotted due to this campaign or at least lose a celebrity endorsement or two. Sadly, I don't think this will happen. Shame on those involved with this campaign.
  73. S.L. S from Small Town, Canada writes: Jeff Smyth from Oakbank Manitoba, excellent point and good post.
  74. M. MacDonald from Halifax, Canada writes: The text of PETA's ad is an accurate description of the manner in which some animals are commonly slaughtered. There are two problems with it, however:

    1. It is in poor taste. The reason it is in poor taste is not because it makes a comparison between human suffering and animal suffering. It is in poor taste because it is itself exploitative of human suffering.

    2. It is ineffective. What PETA fails to understand -- and it boggles my mind how they can have remained so ignorant of this for so long -- that, for whatever reason, most people do not accord animals as much moral worth as humans and no amount of comparisons between human suffering and animal suffering is going to change that. By attempting to force a comparison that does not come naturally to most people between human suffering and animal suffering, PETA simply comes across as exploitative of human suffering. What PETA ought to focus on is animal suffering along and appealing to people's consciences that animal suffering is, in itself, wrong -- not because it it 'the same' as human suffering, but simply because animals warrant our moral consideration and they should not be made to suffer at our hands.

    If PETA does not recognize and fix these deep flaws with its approach, it will simply hurt itself and the animals in the long run.
  75. Hmmmer ? from Recovery, Canada writes: Steve McCoy from Canada writes: Hey Hmmmer...or whatever dumb disguise you wanna hide behind...first, learn how to spell brunette right...then get some brains and make some real arguments....ill bet 200,000 that you can't.
    ---------------

    Steve, how correct you are, 'brunette'! Spelled correctly but not right.

    Oh you want real arguments like, 'I am willing to bet anyone who supports PETA would rather do so, than support a real cause, such as The Lung Association, even if they're own children and loved ones have died from asthma', is that what you want, Steve?

    What does, ' ....ill bet 200,000 that you can't', refer to? Are you ill?

    Hmmmer. Things that make ya go, dmmm?
  76. Hmmmer ? from Recovery, Canada writes: Jeff Smyth from Oakbank Manitoba, Canada writes: Congratulations to the editor of the Daily Graphic for turning down Peta's ad. Someone in the media that has shown some dignity and character.
    Peta is like a child having a tantrum. The more attention you give them the more they go on. Foolish stunts like this one only discredit their organization. This sad tragedy has shaken our entire Province. My condolences to the McLean family.

    --------------------

    I agree!

    Hmmmer. Things that make ya go, shhh!
  77. Hmmmer ? from Recovery, Canada writes: Thanks to, The Globe and Mail.

    It's not easy!

    But it gets done.

    Thanks

    Hmmmer. Things that make ya go, hmmm?
  78. Kenn Chaplin from Canada writes: Next time I head to Swiss Chalet I'm going to have a chicken and ribs combo and mail the receipt to PETA.
  79. Brad Reddekopp from Hazelton, British Columbia, Canada writes:
    I can't believe there are still apologists for PeTA around. 'Animals have babies, too!' 'Animals feel pain, too!' Boo effing hoo. Bloody simple-minded dupes.
  80. J S from Canada writes: PETA - remove civilization and society and you have the human animal hunting and eating flesh of other animals to survive. We've done it all through history, we do it now, we'll do it in the future - it's our nature. It's called 'the food chain'. I guess it's cruel for all predators to stalk and kill their prey - how about lions - they are so unethical in their treatment of other animals, killing them and eating them. We should protest lions to get them to eat only vegitables. And, there are so many predators! Geez, we need to rewrite the laws of nature to eliminate the food chain!! And what about those poor vegitables - they're alive, don't you think they hurt when killed for a salad? What horrible inhumane unethical treatment of vegitation!! The knife slides across the poor wheat stalk severing it from it's root, snuffing out it's short life...
  81. Shane Jordan from Winnipeg, Canada writes: Support PETA

    Be a PETA-phile
  82. Mike Leyne from VanIsle, Canada writes: Wow... slow down peta, you had me with pam anderson!

    first ladysmith's finest, then trying to turn tricks on the backs of dozens of murdered prostitutes in vancouver, and now attempting to bolster the donations by exploiting the most sick and twisted murder in recent memory?

    talk about good taste, pass me a vegetarian burger, i'm sold...
  83. Charles Brown from Vancouver, BC, Canada writes: In their quest to be outstanding and controversial, PETA once again achieve nothing but exposed their own insensitivity and stupidity.
  84. Mother Trucker from Canada writes: I once thought PETA was five-short-of-a-six-pack. Guess I was wrong! Seems they are seven-short-of-a-six-pack!
  85. G len from Halifax, Canada writes: I hope everybody who ever donated to PETA cancels their membership. Pukes
  86. evelyn robinson from Canada writes: For those who think the papers should not run this story; would you want to donate to a charity that you think is compassionate and trying to help animals without knowing the truth of their distorted views and lack of compassion for a bereaved family.
  87. Brad Reddekopp from Hazelton, British Columbia, Canada writes:
    Mike Leyne, excellent use of sarcasm. Good work.
  88. Mike McFae from Canada writes: Hey Jack O'Douley . no one responded to your support for PETA. You may not have a problem with the use of the recent Greyhound murder to promulgate their cause but it seems 99 % of Canadians sure do. You're in a small club and I have no intentions either of debating with your kind of people.
  89. George Nikitin from Hamilton, Canada writes: PETA, isn't that an acronym for 'rich people divorced from reality'.
  90. North of the Border from Canada writes: It might be an easy thing to claim now but one of the first things I thought when I heard this was when will the other nutcases tie this in with animals. Want to make a comparison here? Try getting the mental assessment on this guy and see the similarities between him and these activist nut jobs.
  91. North of the Border from Canada writes: Shane Jordan from Winnipeg: PETA-phile? Without performing plagarism can I get permission to use that? Lol.
  92. vanessa stirling from Vancouver, Canada writes: Not surprised. In Vancouver they wanted to run an ad that compared the slaughter of pigs to the situation at the picton farm. Entirely in bad taste. 'ethical treatment'? They don't know what that is.
  93. Philip McRae from Vancouver, Canada writes: PETA=vegan nazi's. Save a cow, kill a human.
  94. Erin voegeli from Canada writes: Very, very, very poor judgement on Peta's part, and I am full on for animal rights. I think we all understand the point PETA is making, animals are treated horrendously in this society and others, no doubt. BUT the timing and lack of sympathy for the human victim in the ad is VERY disrespectful. Just a reminder to Peta: Humans deserve respect too, maybe you forget that sometimes.
  95. James Cyr from Balmertown Ontario, Canada writes: These PETA members should be put into the dog house...
  96. John Harris Stevenson from Ottawa, Canada writes: It is a common PETA tactic to spark outrage with advertising that equates the treatment of animals with human crimes -- even the Holocaust. Perhaps at one point the intention is to force some sort of philosophical or spiritual epiphany -- 'hey, animals are people too!' -- but the result is more typically outrage. PETA is great at getting this sort of publicity, but lousy at actually advancing their political agenda and effecting real change for animals. We all have the right to care about animals and not want to see then treated with cruelty, but I'm not sure PETA is actually helping at this point.
  97. Randy D from Canada writes: PETA--People Eating Tasty Animals...
  98. Timber 'n from Somewhere, Canada writes: To PETA, your ad is so offensive, its unreal. I'm definitely eating steak tonight.
  99. Rollie Beethoven from Canada writes: PETA Your group is totally sick and perverted to run such an Ad. I sure based on this act alone most of your executive and spokespeople are complete nutters.
  100. Thomas Price from Whitefish, Canada writes: These same people have no problem in plucking carrots from the ground and letting them die of dehydration, decapitating cabbages to satisfy their hunger, decapitating lettuce, consuming the the unborn fetuses of numerous fruit plants and other equally atrocious and inhumane acts perpetrated against the plant world which also happens to be living. They probably include wheat germ, the wheat equivalent of sperm, in their diet. Their consumption of eggs is the eating of unborn chicken fetuses. The list goes on and on because humans are at the top of the food chain. Each step down the food chain ladder equally consumes, by what-ever means, the next lower step. Have they never seen a wolf capture and kill a deer? This latest act clearly demonstrates that their dietary practices result in mental impairment. They need help and education not criticism.
  101. pete peters from Independent Alberta, Canada writes: Another victory for PETA! Just look at the response here. So much indignation and everybody talking about this pathetic group.

    The only reason PETA exists is because numbskulls in the media give them a platform. And the only reason the numbskulls do that is because ... well, they're numbskulls. What more can you expect?
  102. Karl Weinstinen from Oakville, Canada writes: PETA is a joke. Of the animals that they 'rescue' each year they kill more of them then they save. Check out Penn and Teller's Bullsh**! Episode on PETA if you want to get a good idea what they are really like.
  103. Steven Koning from Bloomfield, ON, Canada writes: By equating animals with people, the members of PETA wind up looking like animals.
  104. El Cid from Halifax, Canada writes: Vile, vile bottom feeders. They turn more and more people against their cause every time they attempt to do anything. In fact, I'm going to treat myself to steak tonight just in their honour.
  105. Rusty Brown from beautiful, quiet, shady Cobourg, Ontario, Canada writes:
    PETA lost me a few years ago when they posted big ads in Saskatchewan using Jesus as poster boy for their cause.

    Jesus was the guy who handed out loaves and fishes (hello! FISHES!) to eat, and who also cast out demons from some hapless individual, which then took refuge in some pigs nearby that were hanging around not bothering anybody. The pigs went nuts and ran into the sea and drowned. Ethical treatment of animals indeed.

    And now this abomination.

    Who has time for such fools as these?

    RB
  106. San Tomas from Kelowna, Canada writes: I rank PETA right up there with the Greenpeace group-----IDIOTS!!!!
  107. Cruthin Clan from Brampton, Canada writes: Based on this attempted abomination of an advert, is there not a way to outlaw this group? Maybe even convict for hate crimes since they hate people so much?
  108. G S from Canada writes: We need to stop donating to groups like PETA, and the Humane Society too. Animal rights sounds nice, but is fundamentally an attack on society. As this ad shows (again) they hate people.

    Animal welfare we all support, and should. The SPCA does the job. They've got my support.
  109. Anne Bierworth from Richmond Hill, Canada writes: Shame on you PETA! How would you feel if one of your family members were brutally murdered & you read about it being compared to a pig being slaughtered! While I understand some of your ad, its disgustingly insensitive and I only hope that Tim McLean's family can forgive your cruel and insensitive hipocrisy! I grew up on a farm and I can tell you first hand not all animals are treated as horrific as you claim at their time of death. You compare everything in life to the slaughterhouses, open your eyes! All for the sake of publicity, absolutely disgusting! PETA you have just set your cause back more ways that you'll ever comprehend.
  110. slapdash dapoint from trawna, Canada writes: peta is appalling.

    i wasn't overy simpathetic to their actions in the past, now i'm completely against anything they have to say.

    f'n ridiculous. peta is turning into the westboro baptist church.

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