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I heard on the radio news that PETA wanted Nebraska to run commercials promoting vegetarianism. But as the radio announcer pointed out, they were more to gross you out than to promote being a vegetarian. Apparently, the commercial shows a sick cow, a pig being beaten by a cinder block, and a chicken having its beak burned off. Fortunately, all three local television stations turned down the request to show it. Did they really expect one of the biggest beef producing states to show that commercial? Besides, how did they get that footage? I have a hard time believing anyone would burn the beak off of a chicken, which means that someone from PETA would have to do it for the commercial....just a suggestion.

Anyway, I don't see how it supports being a vegetarian. It never says, "Become a vegetarian, it's really healthy (or whatever)". It just shows a bunch of animals being tortured. I can't see that commercial being effective, only gullible people would believe any of that, and it would just make everyone else hate PETA more than they already do.

I'm told that chickens' beaks are frequently removed in major chicken farms so that they can have a tube stuck into their throats and be kept in a tiny cage. Whether or not this is true, I'm not sure. I was just told this.

Well, I have a hard time believing anything PETA says it is true unless I hear it from somewhere else. As you can probably guess, I am not a huge fan of PETA so I am very reluctant to believe anything they say.

I'm told that chickens' beaks are frequently removed in major chicken farms so that they can have a tube stuck into their throats and be kept in a tiny cage. Whether or not this is true, I'm not sure. I was just told this.
Yeah, but the chickens like it that way. That's how they live in the wild.

Yeah, that commercial to me shows the cruelty of animals by means of human hands but not human teeth.

Yeah, that commercial to me shows the cruelty of animals by means of human hands but not human teeth.

Well put.
As far as I can see, there's nothing wrong with eating meat - it's what nature/God/who-or-what-ever intended, after all - but some of the things we put animals through in the name of a cheap meal are blatanty wrong.
By the way, anyone using the argument "God/Buddah/Allah/Krishna/The Great High Wumpus wouldn't want us to eat meat" should ask themselves, why did he/she/it design us to be partially carnivorous by nature?

I hate PETA it vaules animals over humans its vice president uses animal byprouducts to stay alive and it kills 3/4 of the animals it "rescues" they promote arseny ect. need I go on.