PETA proposes vegan restaurant in Jeffrey Dahmer’s childhood home

[kpete]

An animal-welfare organization is trying to capitalize on the notoriety of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s childhood home by suggesting it might turn the house into a vegan restaurant.

Ingrid E. Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, sent a letter dated Friday to the realty agent who has listed the Bath Township house for sale. In the letter, she asked about the listing and proposed making the house a vegan restaurant “to respond to the past with something positive.”

Newkirk likened the way animals are slaughtered, processed and consumed to the way Dahmer treated his victims.

“We are always looking for ways to draw attention to the violence inherent in the production of meat, eggs, and milk — which involve processes that would shock all but the most hard-hearted person,” Newkirk wrote in the letter to Richard Lubinski of Stouffer Realty. “Dahmer’s old house gives us a way to evoke sympathy for these victims and to suggest that a life-affirming diet can change everything.”

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http://www.ohio.com/news/peta-proposes-vegan-restaurant-in-jeffrey-dahmer-s-childhood-home-1.478602

[seabeyond]

1. they are really sick fuckers.... nt

[AgingAmerican]

2. Salad is murder

nt

[JaneyVee]

3. What if the carnivores started eating all the vegans?

Then PETA wouldn't have to worry about people eating animals.

[longship]

4. What is it with PETA?

They always have to take some weird stand.

Fuck PETA.

If you love animals, donate to the humane society or the SPCA.

[tridim]

5. That's f'ing disgusting. Booooooooo PETA. nt

[Enrique]

6. i have learned to love Peta

i used to be upset by these tactics, but I could never answer the question, what harm do they do?

[AndreaCG]

7. I have been a vegetarian for 40 years

And am now a vegan, but PETA does NOT represent me or I suspect the majority of vegetarian/vegans I know. This latest stunt is literally turning my stomach sick. Do not take these people as representative of my community. It is only somewhat of an exaggeration to call them the Westboro Baptist church of the pro-animal movement. They may not be as viciously hate filled but are filled with bizarre ideas.

[Sheepshank]

9. and that's exactly what we have here, another stunt

their attempt to build awareness, is instead building disgust for their movement...someone needs to rethink their messaging strategy.

This type of idiocy, really doesn't help their cause. A majority of the nation are moderates and extremism, is completely offputting, and the message is lost to the initial negativity they are generating.

[seabeyond]

10. i hear ya. and appreciate hearing it. on the otherside, .... i am all for those that make the

choices you do. more power to you. health.... compassion are favorites of mine. and i respect the person that puts their energies in that direction. care for and protect animals... and thank you, cause my efforts are elsewhere and animals need their champions. make you dietary choices the best you feel works for you. another cheer.

that does not mean i will support and respect peta. not gonna happen. i truly see them as piece of shit people. i expect more.

[RebelOne]

20. I am a vegetarian and have always supported PETA,

but some of their ideas are way over the top like this restaurant idea.

[snooper2]

8. I guess it has been a couple months for them, right on time for something stupid LOL

[AcertainLiz]

11. So just a bunch of stupid trolls I guess.

[eShirl]

12. if there were no PETA, the Right would have to invent one

[tenderfoot]

17. I think PETA is an element of the Right...

if not business & industry in some sort or another.

They are so trollish it makes you wonder who's really pulling their strings.

[meaculpa2011]

13. Dahmer was not a serial killer...

he had an eating disorder.

[joeybee12]

14. How disgusting...

I never defend PETA anymore...they kill cats, too. Whenever they do something right, you can always point out that other groups do the same thing and probably better...fuck them.

[Nye Bevan]

15. PETA has clearly been long since infiltrated by a "false flag" group of steak-loving carnivores.

That's the only explanation I can possibly thing of.

[840high]

16. Sick.

[librechik]

18. how tasteful. n/t

[badtoworse]

19. I would go there, but only if they had their breast milk ice cream on the dessert menu.

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[Baclava]

36. Milk bars could be very popular some day

[badtoworse]

40. Especially after a night of ultraviolence

[Codeine]

48. As long as they don't run out of almond synthemesc I'm cool it. nt

[whathehell]

51. Say What?

It's not PETA that came up with that gross-out gambit, is it ?

[badtoworse]

53. See link

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/sep/26/business/fi-icecream26

[whathehell]

54. Lovely..

[quinnox]

21. More lunacy from PETA. I can't believe some support this organization

[KamaAina]

22. Is it zoned commercial?

[jmowreader]

23. This didn't take long: PETA is no longer planning to do this

http://www.ohio.com/news/break-news/peta-drops-vegan-eatery-proposal-for-dahmer-home-1.479262

The house is in an area zoned residential and they probably couldn't get rezoning for a publicity stunt, it's on well water and a septic system so no health inspector in his or her right mind would approve it for foodservice, and "creamy chicken casserole," vegan or not, just doesn't sound like something you'd go to a restaurant to eat.

[Hekate]

24. More evidence (as if we needed it) that PETA is as much an attention whore as...

...(Apologies in advance, but they've gotten on my last nerve) the God hates fags cult.

PETA could do so much good in this world by tweaking their tactics juuuuust a bit, but instead they focus on outrage generating clown stunts.

>rant off<

[GOPee]

31. This is sad really

Supporting the welfare of animals is such an important endeavor, that has so little attention as is, that this type of antic deflects from the effort. I wish they would try to refine their marketing strategy, to appeal to a much broader audience than just the most devout. Pity

[etherealtruth]

42. That is the real problem with the tasteless theater that is PETA

... no one talks about PETA's purported cause ... they talk about PETA. They are geniuses at garnering attention for themselves ... not so genius at bringing attention to the animals

WELCOME TO DU!

[GOPee]

43. Thank you, it's about time I got on board.

I've been reading the site for years, and didn't think I had anything important enough to advance the dialog. However this election cycle is too important to sit and just quietly wringing my hands, but add my voice and my pent up energy. We'll see how I do.. Yikes

[etherealtruth]

52. I did the same thing ...

....here I am nine years later.

[Hip_Flask]

25. Haven't enough terrible things already come from that home?

[Jenoch]

26. If Dahmer had not been killed in prison, he would have been tried for treason,

for selling arms to Iraq.

[dembotoz]

28. lol

[Eleanors38]

39. My foot!

[rrneck]

27. The Westboro Baptist Church of animal rights organizations. nt

[JI7]

29. fucking disgusting attention whores

[GOPee]

32. Whoa.. f*^king disgusting attention whores..

are a small but important subset of a larger segment of the broader sector of Attention Whores in general, that play a very important role in representing hard working Whores worldwide..so I've been told. So I wish they would tone it down just a bit. .

[dembotoz]

30. kudos to peta--really good theater

what the hell is wrong with a bit of theater

Lady Gaga wearing her meat dress.

Jesus H Christ
you guys sound like my parents


Would i go to this restaurant--hell yes--sounds like fun

[SomethingFishy]

34. Sounds like your parents are a little more... experienced than you..

So you want to go to a house where a man would drug, rape, murder dismember and eat his victims. To have dinner. Because it would be fun.

[dembotoz]

44. childhood home not where he did his crimes in milwaukee--that apartment building was torn down many

years ago.

[Politicalboi]

33. Peta should get in touch with

Alcatraz. They have dinners in cells there. Wouldn't that be more like what animals experience.

[Logical]

35. PETA has turned into a parody. .nt

[Blue_Tires]

37. PETA has really lost the plot in recent years

They can't even do decent publicity-whoring stunts anymore...

These aren't the folks I used to know...Once they left Norfolk and went Hollywood everything changed...

[Eleanors38]

38. "..always looking for ways to draw attention.." Fixed that.

[madinmaryland]

41. This group has lost total respect of anyone. What a fucking joke.

[flvegan]

45. "“We are always looking for ways to draw attention to the violence..."

Done and (seeing post on DU with many responses involving shaking virtual fists) done!

[seabeyond]

46. It is not a win. I know you like to pretend it is, but it is not a win

[flvegan]

47. I have nothing to gain by it, so I don't see your point.

The fact that ONCE AGAIN an organization that is so allegedly hated by so many (including alleged liberals) has once again met their proposed agenda, win for them. And a win for them, might very well be a win for animals. Double win, anyone...maybe?

Your concern is duly noted though.

[The Straight Story]

49. Westboro got in the press a lot as well

And it turned more people against their cause than to it.

If their message is 'be like us and support our cause' there are probably ways to go about that which does not turn people off to the causes they are championing.

it associates craziness with the causes which isn't helping others who have the same causes 'oh...your like them crazy peta folks' and away goes discussion of the issue and it becomes about the organization.

Rush, Hannity, Coulter, Pat Robertson, Peta....and so on. When your proposed agenda is to get people to not want to associate with you and your causes they all do a good job. Peta is the nra of animals.

[Hip_Flask]

50. I guess I don't understand their agenda...

If it is to gain attention then I suppose it is indeed a win.

I thought their agenda was to change hearts and minds to support their cause? If that's the case then not so much.