Uh-huh. Have I mentioned lately that y’all are crazy?
Photo by Mike Brown / The Commercial Appeal
Ashley Byrne, a Washington, D.C.-based campaign coordinator with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), talks with Memphis police officers during a recent demonstration outside City Hall that coincided with World Vegetarian Week. When officers inquired about the well-being of intern Shawn Herbold (bottom) and volunteer Thomas Olsen, a sweat-soaked Herbold replied that she was in pain and feeling nauseated from the heat after being wrapped in cellophane for 30 minutes, and also asked how much longer she needed to stay there. Byrne let her know it wouldn’t be much longer and left her under the hot afternoon sun for 30 minutes more while debating with the officers. PETA would never treat a cow that way, but I guess it’s OK for an intern. Many organizations that focus on extremes could take note that leading through example makes more impact than demonstrating with hypocrisy. “1,000 Words” is a weekly pictorial commentary on events in Greater Memphis and around the world. Today’s “1,000 Words” was written by Mike Brown, a photographer for The Commercial Appeal.
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Let’s just ignore the obvious comments that can be made about this situation, shall we?
Instead, I’ll say this: if you’re willing to sacrifice members of your own species in order to further your agenda (which includes elevating members of other species to an untouchable, god-like status), then I personally feel as though you’re not worthy of continuing life as a member of your current species.
You have so little disregard for humans who eat meat that you’re going to treat one of your own as a cut of beef, baking in the sun, wrapped in cellophane, to prove a point? You DO realize that those of us who have brains are going to disregard you as nuts - business as usual - because of this behavior, right?
Look, I totally understand the ideology that eating another animal is wrong. If YOU feel that way, then YOU stop eating meat. Hurting a fellow member of your species to prove your point is not only phenomenally stupid, it’s also hypocritical. Of course, you’re not going to eat your interns, so I guess you don’t care.
If I was that police officer, I do believe I would have taken the intern’s comments to mean that they were there not of their own free will as of the point of inquiry. Next move? Cutting them out of the cellophane and arresting Ashley Byrne for kidnapping. Sound harsh? Put a piece of cellophane on your left arm while you drive around town and do your errands this summer. Imagine that discomfort on your whole body. It’s dangerous, and I don’t feel at all remiss in saying that those two volunteers could have suffered heat stroke. It was Byrne’s responsibility, one would think, to “take care of” them and make sure that the protest never got out of hand to the point where any injuries were obtained. Obviously she failed at that. Nausea and pain while in direct sunlight are usually the first signs that you need to hydrate and get yourself in the shade. Trust me on that one - I’ve been running from the sun my whole life.
If that girl was stupid enough to keep laying there while she was in pain then, honestly, I have a hard time feeling bad for her.
She was strapped down with cellophane. She couldn’t get up.
Let’s rephrase. If that girl was stupid enough to not know being wrapped in cellophane and lying in the sun on a really hot day was a bad idea to begin with and then not throwing a fit when she was in pain but instead meekly submitted, then honestly I have a hard time feeling bad for her.
Had I been present, I would have run home and returned w/ a grill and seasonings.
yeah, what 3rdPower said - the meek submission part specifically.
But the demonstration does make a good point about sheep being food - although that’s probably not what they intended.
Generally speaking, feeling bad for a PETA over stupidity on their part is kinda redundant. I mean… they are in PETA… thus we know they aren’t very bright to begin with. This sorta stuff is kinda expected - I mean they are an “Animal Rights Organization” and they do stuff like this: http://www.petakillsanimals.com/
I do believe I’d go find the nearest McD’s and come back with a sackful of chicken McNuggets, and just start eating while I watched the show in plain view.
dumbasses.
and i mean that in the best possible way.
Where I live it would only take about 20 minutes for the sky would be filled with Buzzards.
Jeez, I feel bad for living out in flyover country and never being able to grab a bucket of KFC, 12 pack of Bud and a lawn chair for festivities like this. Solar Powered Cooking at it’s best!
I agree with Breda and thirdpower. This wasn’t that intern’s first go-round with this. It’s a travelling show. The difference between the exploitation of the intern and the exploitation of food animals is that the intern had a choice.
I couldn’t make out the prices. Are they reasonable?
DrStrangeGun,
And to go along w/ those nuggets, a nice, big, dripping w/ condensation, ice-cold drink. Right in front of the nitwits in cellophane.
I think a more effective impression could have been made by running to the nearest Stop&Rob, getting large bottles of Gatorade, some ice, plastic cups. Returning, cutting them loose with your Spyderco, and administering the liquid first aid. Tell the victims and bystanders that you are a compassionate carnivore.
GAH, everyone knows you gotta cut the heads off of activists as soon as you kill them, otherwise the stupidity flows down into the rest of the meat and ruins it.
They were spoiled long before they were sitting in the sun for an hour.
I do think it would have been great to cut them out THEN try and grill them. Carry the absurdity to the very end!
Having been an intern before, sometimes you do what you’re asked because you trust that people will stop before things get out of hand. And this girl probably believes in the cause and didn’t think it would go that far. So yeah, shame on her for not realizing that PETA usually goes too far, but I still feel badly for her, because regardless, she wasn’t hurting anyone else, and if she wanted to get up, she should have been able to be released.
Some people do not seem to understand that people are animals, not vegetables. That is, heterotrophs, not autotrophs.
That is, we cannot live on sunlight and minerals as the plants do, but must eat things which are or were alive, to stay alive ourselves.
The Vegans think they can finesse this by only eating things already fallen off of the tree, but they’re killin’, too. They just can’t hear the apricots scream.
Other things must die in order for us to live. This is the main reason we say grace at meals, to ask forgiveness for the death of our food.
William Burroughs wrote a book about this, entitled “Naked Lunch.”
“The Gods Must Be Crazy”, one of my favorite movies, had the little Bushman arrested by bullying Bantus while saying grace over the critter he had just killed, he being hungry
Sweet zombie Jesus, please tell me they haven’t bred yet.
I would have been tempted to get a bottle of barbecue sauce and start basting them…
HAHAHAHA Meat is murder… HA, Meat is TASTY!
PETA sure isn’t acting like PETSWP here….People for the Ethical Treatment of Saran Wrapped People.
They say don’t eat animals but do wrap humans in plastic and keep them against their will.
Brilliant!
I wonder if it will ever sink-in to the cellophane idiots that PETA doesn’t really care about them, and that PETA really doesn’t care about them, and that PETA is a bunch of sadists who exploit animal suffering because they enjoy the suffering itself - all the rest of their crap is rhetoric.
Would any of you let a nice steak sit out in the Sun for an hour on a hot day?
“I couldn’t make out the prices. Are they reasonable?”
I wish you could have heard me laugh at that. It shook the room.
Ok, I wasn’t going to say it the first time I was here, but I ended up coming back via Tam, soI just have to…
“If it wasn’t for the ‘blood’, that’d be so HAWT!”
I’m sick Jessy! Sick, sick, sick!
“LONG PORK! GET’CHER LONG PORK RIGHT HERE! GRILLED TO ORDER!”
They need to be careful because once the body’s temp hits 106º the brain begins to die. Oops, for a second there I forgot that these are PETA members. Um… well… I guess 106º is bad for the other organs too. Wait, skin! I can tell that they do have skin! That level of heat will be terrible for their skin!