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02-02-2005, 02:33 PM
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A press release issued by the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) read that the "Jesus" model would "rise above the crowd at the opening of ‘The Passion of the Christ' to protest the suffering of animals raised and killed for food on ranches like Mel Gibson's in Montana, and to encourage moviegoers to adopt a diet that is respectful of all God's creation." Also part of the demonstration were "people holding signs reading, ‘For Christ's Sake—Go Veggie!,' ‘Blessed Are the Merciful' and ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill,' as well as activists handing out vegetarian starter kits and leaflets titled ‘Honoring All of God's Creation.'" A request for comment to Gibson's Icon Productions was not immediately answered. PETA has also used the same demonstration tactic across the United States at the premieres of "The Passion of the Christ" in San Francisco, Seattle and Washington. Apparently comparing the suffering experienced by Jesus in His final moments of agony to the suffering endured by animals, the release read that "‘The Passion of the Christ' focuses on Jesus' suffering in the final hours of his life. PETA wants everyone who eats meat to consider that suffering is an everyday reality for cows and other animals on farms and feedlots and, ultimately, in abattoirs. Cows are routinely dehorned and males are castrated without pain relief, deprived of their young and treated as commodities. As whistle blowers and veterinarian inspectors have attested, abattoir workers often resort to scalding, skinning and dismembering fully conscious animals in order to keep production lines moving." In an e-mail interview, PETA spokesman William Rivas-Rivas said that PETA is neither trying to insult Christians with its message or be in any way blasphemous. He said, "PETA is demonstrating because we want people to know that eating meat promotes gratuitous cruelty and suffering. We're asking people who oppose violence and injustice to extend their compassion to all God's creatures by adopting a vegetarian diet. More than 25 billion animals are killed for food every year in the United States. Pigs, cows, and chickens are individuals with feelings—they can feel love, happiness, loneliness, and fear, just as dogs, cats, and people do." Rivas-Rivas added, "What is unsettling is that Christians, who follow the prince of peace, would support cruelty to animals every time they sit down to eat. There is nothing disrespectful about calling people to be more compassionate and merciful. This is Jesus' message. What is disrespectful and heretical is the way God's creatures are treated on factory farms and in slaughterhouses." Every time Christians sit down to eat they have a choice, Rivas-Rivas said. "(They can) add to the level of violence, misery, and death in the world, or to attempt to live peacefully with all God's creation. Everyone, especially people of faith should show mercy to the most weak, powerless and vulnerable among us—animals. We believe that Christians should reject all cruelty and violence and go vegetarian," he said. According to Rivas-Rivas, "The meat industry today treats God's creatures like dirt, rather than God's beloved animals. The meat industries never allow these animals to do anything that is natural to them—they are never able to feel the grass beneath their feet, the sun on their faces, or fresh air. They endure mutilation—chicks have their beaks burned off, cows and pigs are castrated without anesthesia, cows are dehorned and branded, and the list goes on—all without any painkillers. To subject animals to such cruelty, simply for a palate preference, makes a mockery of God by showing such complete contempt for his creatures." Jeremy Reynalds Ok so here is the article...guess you're the one who don't know what you're talking about... 
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02-02-2005, 02:36 PM
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 Being a member of PETA, I think I would have gotten the newsletter asking for us to follow a boycott against the movie. 
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02-02-2005, 02:38 PM
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I don't even know why I tried.... stupid me.
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02-02-2005, 02:41 PM
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02-02-2005, 02:44 PM
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I would like to be a...
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Get me her phone # and I will be a HAPPY member for life  (Don't think the wife would like that though)  
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02-02-2005, 02:48 PM
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02-02-2005, 02:52 PM
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02-02-2005, 02:57 PM
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02-02-2005, 02:57 PM
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I think he [Sharpton] has a great point. I will never, ever eat there ever again. Meat is murder, etc.
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02-02-2005, 03:01 PM
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Among God's creations, two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes in order not to be separated from the man.---Andres Segovia
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02-02-2005, 03:01 PM
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02-02-2005, 03:02 PM
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You know, i'll just eat something else?  Not that hard, really...
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02-02-2005, 03:04 PM
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oh just shut up please... this is only the second post you have ever posted to me..and every single one of them has been an insult...
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02-02-2005, 03:04 PM
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Well I think we've all established that Brwn_eyes has no reading comprehension skills
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02-02-2005, 03:05 PM
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http://www.thegreatseparation.com/ne...rotesting.html I read it and understood it.... GOD...im so sick of this same response that I get everytime  They f*ckin protested at the opening of the movie...so don't tell me what they weren't doing it.. SHUT UP!
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