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2006-10-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

An animal rights group called Tuesday for a North American theme park operator to cancel a competition in which people will try to break the world cockroach-eating record.
Rights are ethical principles applicable only to beings capable of reason and choice. There is only one fundamental right: a man's right to his own life. To live successfully, man must use his rational facultywhich is exercised by choice. The choice to think can be negated only by the use of physical force. To survive and prosper, men must be free from the initiation of force by other menfree to use their own minds to guide their choices and actions. Rights protect men against the use of force by other men. None of this is relevant to animals.

Theme park operator Six Flags Inc, based in New York, is staging the contest as part of a promotion leading up to Halloween in which it is also offering customers free entry or line-jumping advantages if they eat a live Madagascar hissing cockroach.

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said it had been flooded with calls from children, adults and even anonymous employees of Six Flags opposing the record-breaking contest and the overall promotion.
Looks like their lunatic propaganda campaign has been working...
"Insects do not deserve to be eaten alive especially for a gratuitous marketing gimmick," PETA spokeswoman Jackie Vergerio told Reuters.
"Deserve?" Insects 'deserve' something?
The competition to beat the world cockroach eating record is being held Friday at a Six Flags park in Gurnee, Illinois. Anyone who beats the record will win a season pass for four people for 2007 with VIP queue-jumping status.

Competitors will try to break the current world record, which is held by Ken Edwards of Derbyshire, England, who devoured 36 Madagascar hissing cockroaches in one minute in 2001.

However Six Flags spokesman James Taylor said the only complaints the company had received were from people who did not have the opportunity to sign up and eat a cockroach because
only 12 of its 30 parks in the United States, Canada, and Mexico were participating in the promotion.

Taylor dismissed any health concerns, saying the cockroaches were raised in a sterile environment and were as safe to eat as shrimp or lobster with high nutritional value.

Madagascar hissing cockroaches are large, wingless cockroaches that can grow to between 1.5 to 3 inches.

Taylor said no one who had indulged in this rare delicacy had complained.

"It's something that's supposed to be scary, it's icky, it's gross, it's Halloween fun and it's just one small part of the haunted houses and thrilling rides going on."

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-10-11 16:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 sorry....H/T to the Ayn Rand Institute.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-10-11 16:11|| 2006-10-11 16:11|| Front Page Top

#2 "It's something that's supposed to be scary, it's icky, it's gross, it's Halloween fun and it's just one small part of the haunted houses and thrilling rides going on."

Yes, and nanny state dweebs like PETA, who hate these stunts, demand that they be empowered to adjuge and protect us from all that is scary, icky and gross (like meat), just like the Christian Fundamentalists who hate Halloween because they think it's all about devil worship.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-11 17:11|| 2006-10-11 17:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Cannibalism?

Posted by SwissTex 2006-10-11 17:46|| 2006-10-11 17:46|| Front Page Top

Posted by gorb 2006-10-11 18:14|| 2006-10-11 18:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Heh, look at the dog... he's watching closely for movement. He B Ready.

Posted by .com 2006-10-11 18:17|| 2006-10-11 18:17|| Front Page Top

#6 As for PETA and cockroaches, it's a filial thingy.

Posted by .com 2006-10-11 18:18|| 2006-10-11 18:18|| Front Page Top

#7 A good debunking of PETA :

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

From July 1998 through the end of 2005, PETA killed over 14,400 dogs, cats, and other "companion animals" -- at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. That's more than five defenseless animals every day. Not counting the dogs and cats PETA spayed and neutered, the group put to death over 90 percent of the animals it took in during 2005 alone. And its angel-of-death pattern shows no sign of changing.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-11 18:24|| 2006-10-11 18:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Great visual.

Posted by wxjames 2006-10-11 20:07|| 2006-10-11 20:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Love that picture. Nice of them to include all of the spent shells.
Too bad they didn't have this ammo.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-11 20:59|| 2006-10-11 20:59|| Front Page Top

#10 From July 1998 through the end of 2005, PETA killed over 14,400 dogs, cats, and other "companion animals" -- at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters.

Not to mention disposing the bodies in various dumpsters around the city...

Posted by Pappy 2006-10-11 21:47|| 2006-10-11 21:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Raid commercials are a celebration of genocide.

Posted by I B Roache 2006-10-11 22:19|| 2006-10-11 22:19|| Front Page Top

#12 Penn & Teller video on PETA.

Posted by DMFD 2006-10-11 22:33|| 2006-10-11 22:33|| Front Page Top

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