Happy 25th Anniversary *link* PETA !

[Catchawave]

http://www.peta25.com/

I'd like to share this with the DU public, but not sure I want to turn it into a flamefest either.

So let's just enjoy it here :)

[Piperay]

1. WOW...25 years

of fighting for the voiceless O8)... CONGRATULATIONS to PETA! :bounce: :party: :bounce:

I agree, this would start a horrible flamefest in GD. :-(

[flvegan]

2. Wow, 25 years.

And to think, I owe so much of me to them.

Fuck it. Catchawave, this is your find. I say post it in GD. Flamefest or not, if they click the peta.org link they get a (not so great) video on Covance. I'm not going to put it out there today, as again, this is your find. But, putting it out there to be mocked, ridiculed and otherwise laughed at is what PETA is largely here for, realization and discussion. 1 person, just one, might open their mind...

Hell, pick a time that you'll post it, and let us all know. We can watch the thread and defend as needed. If you don't want to post it, I will, but I want your okay on it.

In the meantime, someone warm up livinginphotographs and SemiCharmedQuark. We're going to need them.

Either way, happy 25th PETA. Thank you, for everything.

Check my sig...

[Catchawave]

7. I would love for you to post it !

Thanks for offering :bounce:

I'm such a liberal weiner...LOL. I'll help the support team too :)

Thanks :hug:

[JackieO]

3. Yeah!

Hooray for PeTA!

:party::toast::grouphug:

I agree with flvegan, let's celebrate with some outreach... :)

[shockra]

4. We've got positive stories we can share.

Most people are unaware of the many things that PETA has accomplished. This would be a great opportunity to show them that PETA does a lot more than just weird things for publicity.

Here's one from peta25.com about their first rescued animal.

1981: Chester

PETA cofounders Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco found Chester, a crab-eating macaque, and 16 other monkeys in a filthy federally funded laboratory in Silver Spring, Maryland, when Pacheco was hired as volunteer. When Pacheco took the position to learn more about how animals are exploited in laboratories, he never guessed it would lead to the first-ever prosecution and conviction of an experimenter on cruelty-to-animals charges or that this would be the first of many undercover investigations.

Laboratory director Edward Taub had cut the nerves in the spines of most of the monkeys, leaving them without feeling in one or more limbs. Stuffed into tiny cages in a dirty, unventilated back room, the half-starved monkeys had chewed off their own fingers in frustration. They suffered untreated broken bones, tooth decay, and infected wounds. On the strength of PETA's evidence, police raided the laboratory, seized the monkeys, and arrested Taub.

Chester believed he was the leader of the colony of wounded monkeys, even though he could only reach through the bars of his cage and touch the tips of the other monkeys' fingers. Because he was a "control" monkey, he was not surgically mutilated, but when lab workers took the other wounded, terrified monkeys from their cages for experiments, which included pinching their bodies with pliers, Chester would scream with rage at the injustice and beat the floor of his prison. Chester was eventually able to live with some dignity and peace, in the nonpublic area of a large zoo. With two of his companions, Sisyphus and Haydn, he spent his remaining years in a large sunny enclosure, with plenty of healthy food and fresh air.

Happy 25th PETA! :toast:

[livinginphotographs]

5. Congrats to PETA.

As much as people may hate them, they've made themselves a household name.

And they've made my life a hell of a lot easier than it would've been, since even Kroger now has vegan options.

[shockra]

6. I hadn't thought of it that way.

I remember when I used to make my own soymilk by straining the beans through cheesecloth. That must have been almost twenty years ago. Now you practically have hot and cold running soy and rice milk in every store. :)