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| PETA Protests Butterfly Release |
| 2004-05-10 |
| You thought lobsters have it bad There won’t be a butterfly release at Saturday’s conclusion of the Flight of the Butterfly Festival. The animal rights activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protested the release of 1,000 butterflies, saying it was inhumane and cruel. Keep ’em prisoners in butterfly Abu Ghraib instead. Instead, festival organizers at the Lake Elsinore Outlets will float butterfly-shaped balloons. Awww. How cute. Wait, won’t the balloons pop and be eaten by the yellow stripped spanish warbler and occlude their breathing and eating passages causing an agonizing death? Better to cancel the Festival altogether The outlet says it decided to scrub the butterfly release after receiving a letter from PETA requesting a more humane culmination to the event. PETA says such releases are used mostly for wedding celebrations and memorials. But a spokeswoman says butterflies have to struggle to get out of envelopes and boxes. What is PETA going to do about the agony of leaving the cocoon? We need a new category for animal stories |
| Posted by:Mr. Davis |
| #12 The idiots are the ones who listened to them. |
| Posted by: djohn66 2004-05-10 6:11:51 PM |
| #11 hmmmm. time to break out ole trusty checkbook agan. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-05-10 5:21:33 PM |
| #10 Does anyone think Rush's parody song, "In A Yugo", would be appropriate here? |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-10 4:24:51 PM |
| #9 By all means, keep them off the road. PETAns make terrible splatters on windshields. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-05-10 4:19:38 PM |
| #8 I should never kid myself into thinking that I have heard it all. PETA has to be the magnet for the mentally afflicted. And, as somebody has pointed out, the mentally afflicted with too much time and money on their hands. THE MADNESS...WHEN WILL IT END!!?!?!?! |
| Posted by: anymouse 2004-05-10 4:00:04 PM |
| #7 Note to PETA - I've eaten so much delicious red meat off the BBQ this week that I've almost got a mild case of gout :-) tonight? Veal...mmmmm |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-10 3:52:58 PM |
| #6 My family is always amused at PETA. Particularly yesterday as we enjoyed our pieces of Sirloin at "Fridays" for Mother's day dinner. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-10 3:50:25 PM |
| #5 I'lll be giving this subject just a teensy bit of thought as I toss a slab of ribs on the barbecue this evening for dinner. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-05-10 3:46:21 PM |
| #4 You are right Carlos. Keep them off the roads. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-10 3:28:55 PM |
| #3 Maybe the best use of time for the PETA people is to be rallying for the butterflies. |
| Posted by: Carlos 2004-05-10 3:15:05 PM |
| #2 PETA Protests Butterfly Release = Dangerous quantities of spare time. I guess this make me an animal abuser for having raised Monarch butterflies when I was a child. I feel so dirty. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-05-10 3:11:02 PM |
| #1 First lobsters, and now butterflies, PTEA only has two stories today. They're slipping. The British Post Office had better watch themselves. PETA in England will demand that a certain percentage of mail carriers offer themselves to be cat scratching posts. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-10 3:08:56 PM |