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PETA.....always good for a laugh

tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭
edited September 2006 in General Discussion
PETA upset at Six Flags roach-eating contest
September 24, 2006 (GURNEE, Ill.) - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants Six Flags Great America to scrap its Halloween-themed cockroach-eating promotion. A spokeswoman for the animal rights organization says the contest at the amusement park's FrightFest is "gratuitously cruel."

The park in Gurnee, Illinois, is joining other Six Flags parks in offering unlimited line-jumping privileges to anyone who eats a live Madagascar hissing cockroach. The bugs are up to three inches long.
The contest begins next month.

Amusement park officials are defending their menu choice. Great America spokesman Jim Taylor says the bugs are nutritious, high in protein and fat free.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    You know, I often wondered why PETA never jumped on Fear Factor, or if they did, you never heard about it...
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  • spanielsellsspanielsells Member Posts: 12,498
    edited November -1
    Yeah, on Fear Factor they eat hissing cockroaches all the time. I could do a majority of the stunts on Fear Factor, but when it comes to the eating games, I'd walk off the set. I can't even watch that without getting the dry heaves.

    PETA is full of assclowns. My first introduction to PETA was back in 1989 when I was a congressional intern in DC. I was walking on the Mall and came up on a PETA guy with a display. I had never heard of PETA before, and was interested because I liked animals. It took me about two minutes of listening to this nutfudge to figure out that PETA was a radical group with a zero grasp on reality. I then noticed something that kept me from simply walking off (I like to challenge people and their beliefs when I've got the time and inclination).

    So, after he rambled on for close to ten minutes, I stopped him and asked if he thought his vinyl shoes and belt were comfortable and stylish. He gave me a confused look, and then I suggested he look into how vinyl is manufactured, and what his whale friends must have thought of them. At that point, he couldn't even get a word out of his mouth. I walked off laughing very loudly.
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  • beantownshootahbeantownshootah Member Posts: 12,776 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey, somebody has got to speak for the cockroaches. . .

    [:p]

    What I always find funny about these PETA freaks, is that they never acknowledge that ANIMALS eat other animals.

    If humans didn't hunt deer, most of them would die of either starvation or predation. Is that better?
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  • HappyNanoqHappyNanoq Member Posts: 12,023
    edited November -1
    I'd like to send a box of cockroaches to PETA headquarters..

    Make a box that falls apart when the string is loosened.

    I'd bet they'd stomp most of them...
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  • zipperzapzipperzap Member Posts: 25,057
    edited November -1
    Whenever I see the anachronism, PETA ... I think of the RAT MONSTER!!![:0][:0][:0]

    http://www.metacafe.com/watch/37103/rat_monster_joke/
    [:D]
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  • 11BravoCrunchie11BravoCrunchie Member Posts: 33,423 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    PETA probibly flipped out over Fear Factor's pig-uterus eating segment...probibly said it was a cruel use of an unused portion of an already dead and processed pig.
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  • sheepdipsheepdip Member Posts: 3,124
    edited November -1
    spanielsells, whats the deal on vinyl ?
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  • gearheaddadgearheaddad Member Posts: 15,091 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    PETA
    People Eating Tasty Animals
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