People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, has begun a campaign to scare children into becoming vegetarians.

The group, which formed to stop animal testing of consumer products but made its name by attacking women in fur coats with fake blood, is producing comic books that portray fathers as homicidal maniacs.

The handout, titled "Your Daddy Kills Animals," features a grinning lunatic gutting a fish, and warns kids to keep their puppies and kittens away from Dad because he's "hooked on killing."

"PETA is trying as hard as it can to portray the ordinary angler as a demonic, sadistic, cruel killer. This is what PETA does — it paints caricatures of ordinary people to try to convince the rest of us that we shouldn't want to emulate them," said David Martosko, of the industry lobbying group Center for Consumer Freedom.

But PETA insists that its comic is not outlandish.

"The scientific facts are that fish feel pain in the same way as dogs and cats. It's no more acceptable to hook a fish through the mouth and drag them into your boat and slice them in half than it would be to do the exact same thing to a dog or a cat," said Bruce Friedrich, vegan campaign coordinator for PETA.

Publicity stunts are nothing new for PETA, which has run ads featuring naked women in cages and people dressed in animal suits warning about the dangers of eating meat. But some critics feel the kid-targeted campaign goes too far.

"This is traumatizing kids by the thousands. There's going to be long-term psychological damage from these kids being exposed to the material that PETA puts in front of them on a regular basis," Martosko said.

But, Friedrich countered, "They can certainly find stuff that is more in your face on the Internet, more in your face on Saturday morning cartoons. We don't need to shelter our kids quite that much."

The pamphlet follows a previous one that painted Mom as a "chicken killer." PETA claims its only goal is to reduce meat consumption by changing children's eating habits. Critics insist alienating children from their parents isn't in anyone's best interests — human or animal.

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o__o;; Demonizing parents to prevent children from eating meat.

Wow, thats is crazy.

PETA has a long history of damaging children's psyche's in their tyrannical attempts to turn everyone into fragile, malnourished vegetarians.

they had a similar campaign trying to stop children from drinking milk. they tried to sue elementary schools because they wouldn't put up their anti-milk posters in the buildings.

i retaliate by eating as much meat as i can! :D

Yeah like this won't backfire at them :pinch:

Hilarious. :rofl:

The whole eating meat is cruel routine. I've heard it not only from PETA but from several others who choose to pass judgment on me for wanting to indulge in having a meat lovers pizza or having a tuna sandwich. I've eaten meat my entire life, I learned where it came from at an early age and it didn't bother me then and it doesn't now.

I did consider changing my ways once when I saw one PETA's videos and some of their panthlets. Then it donned on me, it's nothing more than propaganda. Images and facts they gather to not only scare one into ditching meat consumption but feeling guity if one does eat meat products.

Fact is this, and you learn this at an early age in school, not to believe every single detail of what you hear and see. Now I don't doubt the facts on the videos or panthlets I've seen to be false, but remember this, PETA are trying to convert you and give up meat. So obviously they're going to show you what they want you to see, they're going to pick the most frightening images they can find, they're going use footage from the worst farms/slaughter houses they can find. This new campaign is another scare tactic, and children know that if they confront their parents about it, they'll take their word over some over dramatic comic, especially when chilren learn that many comics and cartoons are nothing more then fiction.

Think of it this way, those of you who have seen advertisments for meat products. There's the Scinider's(not sure of spelling) commercial with the kind old man on it, there's the beef it's what's for dinner campaign showing how fast and easy it is to prepare any beef product for dinner, and all of the dishes made look like tasty treats.

The other thing is that if you asked for video footage from a meat company asking how they handle the animals before slaughter they'll show you the line on the best days and with the best workers(this can spawn a whole new discusstion, must read the book Fast Food Nation, lots of labour problems there that go beyond this whole eating meat is cruel BS).

Think of it this way, if you go out and buy any product, the sales person will tell you the truth about the product, when it serves the store's (and the sales person's if on commision) purpose: to sell you this product. So they will rave about how great it looks, how strong it is, the best of the best, it's all facts, it's all true. But, what they won't tell you(until after the product is sold) are some of the things that can make it a real pain in the butt. These facts however, come into play when they want you to buy the most expensive model or when they're trying to upsell you.

Now, both PETA and the meat companies are right, to an extent. Niether of them are lying because they show you the facts, it's just a matter of which side of the truth you're seeing and more importantly, what you're not seeing.

Sheesh, that's a long post. Hella intimidating in the morning. :pinch: I'll read it later. lol