... to believe it. Via RightWingNews, an actual I'm-not-making-this-up comic book printed by the radical animal-rights head-cases at PETA and distributed to small, impressionable children:
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The comic book includes these words of advice for terror-stricken tots: "Until your daddy learns that it's not 'fun' to kill, keep your doggies and kitties away from him. He's so hooked on killing defenseless animals that they could be next!"
Your Daddy Kills Animals! is a follow-up to an earlier PETA comic book (also via RightWingNews):
This charmer concludes with the words:
Ask your mommy how many animals she killed to make her fur clothes. Then tell her you know she paid men to hurt and kill the animals. Everyone knows. And the sooner she stops wearing fur, the sooner the animals will be safe. Until then, keep your doggie or kitty friends away from mommy -she's an animal killer!"
No comments?
Posted by: Brins | October 14, 2005 at 09:48 AM
Maybe people are too appalled to comment!
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Posted by: Michael Prescott | October 14, 2005 at 08:39 PM
Well, I guess I'll leave one.
The gore in these pictures frightens and disturbs me, but I don't understand what this PETA is trying to achieve with the comics. For one thing I thought fur coats were illegal (or at least viewed with disdain, maybe just in Britain), and second, why the emphasis on dogs and cats? I can't imagine any parents murdering them in cold blood.
I was the kind of young child that would have had nightmares just contemplating that image with the rabbit, and probably been struggling to understand why the colourful book would say such things about my parents.
You know, I think I'm just as confused by all this as everyone else must be, so I'm done reasoning.
Posted by: Brins | October 15, 2005 at 07:53 AM
Fur coats are legal in the US - and elsewhere, as far as I know. (I think PETA is also against wearing leather.)
You're right that no parent would kill a child's dog or cat, but that's the point - PETA is trying to scare little kids with the utterly absurd idea that if their parents wear fur or enjoy fishing, they are vicious, indiscriminate animal killers.
PETA's strategy, I assume, is to brainwash small children so they will a) put pressure on their parents to adopt a PETA-approved lifestyle, and b) grow up to be PETA activists themselves.
It's a clumsy and stupid piece of propaganda, but it does illustrate the lengths to which PETA will go in its quest for "animal rights."
Posted by: Michael Prescott | October 15, 2005 at 11:33 AM
This reminds me of similar alarmist tactics taught to my son years ago in Kindergarten. That was when environmental paranoi went mainstream and was in vogue for a few years. In Kindergarten, I repeat KINDERGARTEN for pete's sake, they were taught the world is in imminent danger and we must constantly be vigilant. One evening as I tripped over something in the dark and asked why the lights were out my son said, "Larry Lightbulb says to turn out lights or we will not have anymore energy! We have to protect the environment or we're all going to die." ...sigh...No words of mine would console him. It's a pretty low blow to hit kids with extreme scare tactics.
Posted by: Suzie | October 16, 2005 at 04:49 PM