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Old 05-21-2003, 08:50 AM   #1
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By Donovan Slack, Globe Correspondent, 5/21/2003

Jewish groups yesterday angrily denounced a controversial animal rights campaign that compares the slaughter of animals for food to the Holocaust, calling an exhibit with photographs of emaciated Nazi death camp prisoners a ''horrific'' publicity stunt.

Gathered at the New England Holocaust Memorial -- less than a block from City Hall Plaza, where People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals erected a display of billboard photographs -- Jewish leaders took turns at a lectern, some of them recounting images of friends or family in camps.

''This outrageous campaign trivializes the memory of millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust and insults those who survived,'' said Geoffrey H. Lewis, president of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston.

PETA's exhibit, which made its way to Boston yesterday after evoking similar reactions in 22 other cities, consists of several 6-by-10-foot billboards depicting pictures of Holocaust victims next to photos of masses of chickens and turkeys in warehouses.

Known for radical stances and shock campaigns, PETA leaders yesterday were unapologetic. The images may be ''uncomfortable,'' said 21-year-old PETA organizer and campaign creator Matt Prescott, but ''we need to get past our grief and begin to use it to teach lessons.''

''We need to use it as a context for teaching lessons of compassion and kindness,'' he said.

On the plaza, Prescott and two other PETA employees stood by the billboards set up next to the Government Center T stop and handed out fliers to anyone who would take them.

A few enthusiastically took pamphlets. But passersby largely reacted negatively. ''I don't take things from insane people,'' snapped one man as he scurried into the station.

''This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen!'' exclaimed Mark Vespucci, a federal employee on his lunch break, visibly flustered. ''I understand why you're doing this, but I think it's demoralizing.''

Prescott tried to appeal to him. ''I'm Jewish,'' Prescott said, adding that his mother's second cousins perished in Buchenwald. After a few minutes listening to Prescott talk about the treatment of anmals, Vespucci turned and angrily walked away.

''Do they really need to do that?'' Vespucci said later of the exhibit. ''That's a really bad analogy to draw.''

Jews who reacted to the exhibit yesterday said the comparison strikes deep, in part because the Nazis compared Jews to animals. After standing by the Holocaust Memorial, saying it is a ''horrible thing to compare the suffering and extermination of millions of people to animals,'' Marianne Kronenberg walked quietly down the street and around the billboards of animals emblazoned with titles: ''Mass Murder,'' ''Walking Skeletons,'' and ''The Final Indignity.''

As a girl in Bucharest, Romania, Kronenberg lived in ''protected housing'' during the Holocaust, but she said daily raids by the Nazis meant that many of her friends, neighbors, and family members were taken away to die.

''I'm appalled,'' she muttered under her breath.

The exhibit garnered similar attention and dismay in cities across the United States since it debuted in Berkeley, Calif., in February. Prescott said one Arizona State University student ripped down a billboard and shoved one of the organizers.

Officials from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, which initially gave Prescott permission to use its Holocaust images for a ''project comparing the atrocities of the Holocaust to other forms of oppression throughout history,'' said yesterday they were considering taking legal action against PETA.

''Prescott was not honest with us about how he would be using the images. He did not say that it had anything to do with animals,'' said Arthur Berger, director of communications for the museum, whose archives contain about 70,000 pictures. ''We would not have given permission for that.''

Berger said the museum demanded that PETA stop using the photos, but the organization said it would continue its traveling exhibit indefinitely.

''It's an outrage,'' Berger said. ''There are a lot of survivors that are being deeply hurt.''

Jewish leaders said they recognize that PETA -- whose past campaigns have included splashing red liquid on runway models wearing furs, and promoting beer-drinking over milk consumption to college students -- means to shock.

''Being outrageous is part of their strategy,'' said Rob Leikind, executive director of the New England Anti-Defamation League. ''But we're convinced this is not going to be an effective strategy.''

Dachau survivor Stephan Ross, father of Boston City Councilor Michael Ross, stood yesterday with his son next to the Holocaust Memorial he founded, adamantly decrying PETA's ''dilution'' of his and others' experiences in the camps.

''My family was gassed and burned,'' he said. ''How can they? How can they compare? We must not allow this to continue
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Old 05-21-2003, 08:52 AM   #2
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Holy crap, that's a little bit over the line don't you think?
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Old 05-21-2003, 08:56 AM   #3
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No no Fishy... nothing they do is EVER "a little bit" over the line. Every PETA campaign gose FAR beyond "a little bit over the line".

PETA makes me sick.
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Old 05-21-2003, 09:01 AM   #4
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You don't have to be Jewish to find that offensive.
That's just wrong.
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Old 05-21-2003, 09:03 AM   #5
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PETA... I can't even begin to express my outrage (where in the hell is Outraged when you need him?) adequately.

If that whiney bitch named Prescott were here, I would be inclined to do more then push the little insignificant prick. Perhaps force feeding him a healthy dose of pork would be a good start.
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Old 05-21-2003, 09:05 AM   #6
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like their "feeding kids meat is child abuse" campaign, this is too stupid to even be a powerful, compelling analogy.

Shock tactics don't draw attention to your issue, they just establish you as uncredible.
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like their "feeding kids meat is child abuse" campaign, this is too stupid to even be a powerful, compelling analogy.

Shock tactics don't draw attention to your issue, they just establish you as uncredible.
exactly... This won't make ANYONE want to be a part of them...
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Old 05-21-2003, 09:13 AM   #8
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I wanted to quote every one of you guys but I doubt even the most extreme liberals on this board would side with Peta on this.

The more you make outlandish and offensive propoganda, the less people listen to you. PETA would be the only organization that would that give that shmuck a job.
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Old 05-21-2003, 09:33 AM   #9
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hippies taste like chicken.
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Old 05-21-2003, 09:41 AM   #10
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Don't these people have something better to do?


The idea that they would go this far doesn't surprise me but it certainly offends me, and like someone else said, I'm not even Jewish.

Treat animals ethically. Yes. Make sure no one is beating them or hurting them. Make sure they're not being used as parts of weird chemical tests. Ok, I can handle that.

But this is just too effing much.

Do you believe that the Florida voters actually ammended the Florida state constitution to say something like a pregnant pig on a farm couldn't be caged?

Where is this all coming form?
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Do you believe that the Florida voters actually ammended the Florida state constitution to say something like a pregnant pig on a farm couldn't be caged?
Wait a minute.

Pregnant pigs roam free in Florida?
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Wait a minute.
Pregnant pigs roam free in Florida?
No, it had something to do with the way they were treated on farms. It's just silly to me to put something like that on the constitution, and from what I understand that was another thing spearheaded by PETA.
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Wait a minute.

Pregnant pigs roam free in Florida?
That's why my ex-wife moved there!
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To sane people, all PETA zealots are idiots
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This is nothing that a few gallons of pigs blood and a super soaker couldn't fix.

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What about the drink beer not milk campaign? I kinda liked that one . . .

I also liked the protest with the cute little hippie chick in our city square inside a cage with a sign and wearing nothing but leopard-striped body paint and fake leopard ears.



Mmmmmm . . . all this talk makes me want a juicy medium rare steak . . .
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PETA kills me. There was a story this morning, on the local news, where they filmed a cop mistreating his K-9. (I tried a search to find and post it but couldn't.) They train them here in Baltimore. Anyway the dog would not let go of the toy and release so the cop picked the dog up and put it on it's back and pinned it to the ground by the throat to show it who was boss. (same thing I was taught to do when I took my lab to obedience school.) This teaches the dog to submit, so it will listen and follow commands. It's all over the news down here.
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PETA kills me. There was a story this morning, on the local news, where they filmed a cop mistreating his K-9. (I tried a search to find and post it but couldn't.) They train them here in Baltimore. Anyway the dog would not let go of the toy and release so the cop picked the dog up and put it on it's back and pinned it to the ground by the throat to show it who was boss. (same thing I was taught to do when I took my lab to obedience school.) This teaches the dog to submit, so it will listen and follow commands. It's all over the news down here.
that's not abuse if its done for correction and not done painfully.
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I do the same thing to my wife when she gives me lip... ya know, she refers to me as a Nazi too!
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I wonder how many of these zealots are religious, like Catholic or something....

Jesus ate meat and fish. Was he wrong?
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That's why my ex-wife moved there!
Buh dum CHISH!

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Chicks in feather bikini's were protesting KFC the other day when I was going to work..........
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Ive said it a hundred times, PETA is full of idiots. And Im more or less the resident vegetarian in OT.
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Chicks in feather bikini's were protesting KFC the other day when I was going to work..........
Hm, now there's a side of PITA... i mean PETA that I wouldn't mind!!





but knowing the average PETA member, they were probably dogs.

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I think we should find out were their next big protest or meeting is, then have a big subaru meet/pig roast right next door.
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