Tim McLean Beheading Compared to Slaughtered Animals: PETA Ad Slammed

Actually, I think god is punishing us by making us share space with such lunkheads.

Thanks to you both for your comments, comparing a human life to a KFC chicken, shows PETA like all special interest groups certainly have a misplaced sense of Humanity, especially when they can recruit and dupe Celebs everywhere for their cause, I wonder if some Celebs will share in our outrage and drop PETA as fast as a Hunter, drops a Moose at 200 meters?

I think that anyone who is willing to compare a human's life to an animal's life is just sick and wrong; especially in this case.  This boy was brutally murdered in front of several others who could do nothing, but stand in horror as to the actions taking place.  I'm not saying that animals aren't important, but come on people.  Lets think for a second about the family who is hearing their loved one's life is no more important than an animal.  Have a little sympathy.

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Just sad. When are they going to use the Holocaust to make a point about the slaughtering of animals? Have they already?

I would have thought that they would have more tact than that actually. I'm surprised at them. I have always supported everything they did - however this seems to be out of character for them.

Simply beyond the pale.........I have no other words.

I don't eat meat.  Never liked it, and I feel bad for animals slaughtered BUT it's beyond sick and disgusting, that PETA would use the tragic death of Tim McLean to bring attention to their cause.  If they were as humane as they claim to be, they wouldn't have done this.  I hope someone in the McLean family has the mindset to get a lawsuit going, and use the money they would win, to setup a memorial for Tim.  RIP Tim

I don't eat meat.  Never liked it, and I feel bad for animals slaughtered BUT it's beyond sick and disgusting, that PETA would use the tragic death of Tim McLean to bring attention to their cause.  If they were as humane as they claim to be, they wouldn't have done this.  I hope someone in the McLean family has the mindset to get a lawsuit going, and use the money they would win, to setup a memorial for Tim.  RIP Tim

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PETA is a radical organization and this distasteful display of insensitivity come as no surprise to me.  Pam Anderson likely honestly thinks PETA is doing good work but let's face it she is not paid for her cerebral dexterity.

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For the second time tonight, I'm going to say GOOD LORD!  What the heck? 

Peta claims that they're sensitive and all that - but then they do stuff like this and I think YEAH RIGHT.  You're no better than the rest of us.  This is an absolute tragedy (the man being killed) and this has nothing to do with you.  Making these kind of parallels is stupid and just as inhumane as the animals you're trying to show cruelty to. 

*Rolls eyes* Anything for a moment in the spotlight.  

I'd like to say Ignore them and they'll go away, but like flies to a corpse, PETA just keeps showing up and stooping lower into the rot.

You are the ghouls, feeding on corpses, carrying their flesh in your bellies.

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
-- George Bernard Shaw

A dead cow or sheep lying in the pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
-- J.H. Kellogg

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places! I have since an early age abjured the use of meat...
-- Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

I look my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses?
-- George Bernard Shaw

I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.
-- Alice Walker

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Barry says, "...comparing a human life to a KFC chicken, shows PETA like all special interest groups certainly have a misplaced sense of Humanity"

Perhaps PETA made a poor choice of time/place for this ad, but that does not invalidate the argument- Humanity means considering the suffering of others! Only predators such as a shark or pack of dogs (or the average in-human) cannot consider the suffering of their victims.

Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all living beings, we are all savages.
-- Thomas Edison

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
--Milan Kundera

Flesh-eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling -- killing.
-- Leo Tolstoy

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Again and again you fail to understand how men can be so cruel to each other, yet it was understood long ago...

“ As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. The blood of animals was the first to stain our weapons.”
--Pythagoras

We pray on Sundays that we may have light
To guide our footsteps on the path we tread;
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight,
And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
--Albert Einstein

Your science may torture all it likes with your precious license, but the vengeance of Heaven will fall on your race. More will perish because of science than will live because of it.
-- John Cowper Powys

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The killing of Tim McLean is like something out of a horror movie isn't it? Sociologists have long theorized that horror movies are a device for people to explore their sublimated feelings about slaughter houses. Did not Kurt Vonnegut base his masterpiece 'Slaughterhouse Five' on an a war and a slaughterhouse?

"In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka."
--Isaac Bashevis Singer

"A lot of people who have watched the gore-fest that is this summer's Halloween get more squeamish when the young Michael Myers mutilates animals than they do when the killer graduates to human victims. Well, it so happens that this touches on one of PETA's major campaigns—to raise awareness about the well-documented link between cruelty to animals and crimes against humans."

“We at PETA would like to thank you for making clear in Halloween that people who commit acts of cruelty to animals are likely to move on to humans. Although audiences wince during scenes showing the young Michael Myers mutilating animals, following it up with the school counselor articulating how this is the first step to becoming a maniac was perfectly done. Hopefully, with the attention focused by your movie on this link between animal cruelty and human violence, more people will recognize the warning signs among people they know and deal with it more forcefully.”
--Dan Mathews - PETA

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There, now you folks are slightly less ignorant. Regards, Matt Black

Well said Matt!  Peta is not devaluing human life, but trying to draw connections between all life, whether it be human or not.  All life is precious, and should be valued and respected.  R.I.P Tim.

Matt, ignorance has nothing to do with valuing the life of a young man over that of a chicken.  Man is an omnivorous creature, meaning man requires a little bit of all kinds of food to survive and that includes more than carrots and tofu.

Its amazing how all the maggots seem to magically appear when a life is ended.

I have to say that Iam not impressed with PETA at all!!! I see where they are coming from in alot of different aspects and I have agreed with PETA and strongely believed in what they were doing, but in this case...they have made themselves out to be the bad guys, and that is exactly what they are. This add was completly uncalled for and unacceptable.  Dont get me wrong, all life should be valued, human or not but the fact that they would even compare this horrible and tragic happening to the slaughter of animals is revolting. I just wish that for a second the person who came up with this add would sit back and put themselves in the position of this poor young mans family. Im sorry, but if that was my brother or son the last thing I would be thinking about is... well it could have been my dog. This is in no way, shape or form even comparable to the slaughter of animals. This is a human being we're talking about! I just am completely astonished that there was no contact made with this young mans family on PETA's behalf to see if it was even remotely alright to do such a horrible thing as trying to print this add. Not impressed at all!! Any respect I had for PETA has been thrown out the door.

I have to say that Iam not impressed with PETA at all!!! I see where they are coming from in alot of different aspects and I have agreed with PETA and strongely believed in what they were doing, but in this case...they have made themselves out to be the bad guys, and that is exactly what they are. This add was completly uncalled for and unacceptable.  Dont get me wrong, all life should be valued, human or not but the fact that they would even compare this horrible and tragic happening to the slaughter of animals is revolting. I just wish that for a second the person who came up with this add would sit back and put themselves in the position of this poor young mans family. Im sorry, but if that was my brother or son the last thing I would be thinking about is... well it could have been my dog. This is in no way, shape or form even comparable to the slaughter of animals. This is a human being we're talking about! I just am completely astonished that there was no contact made with this young mans family on PETA's behalf to see if it was even remotely alright to do such a horrible thing as trying to print this add. Not impressed at all!! Any respect I had for PETA has been thrown out the door.

The whole PETA members need to rethink their whole mission and goals. Ingrid Newkirk needs to read this...how would you feel if one of your loved ones was the one slaughter in a horrible way like that...and you now have the audacity to compare a Tim's life to a KFC chicken. The young man had a bright future and a man with no mercy murdered him.  Ingrid needs to be put in a den of lions and see if the lions will have mercy on her. You guys are carnivores. Hope someone tells the PETA get what they deserve. The government needs to close down the company they are just people with no souls. May the good Lord pass judgment on them. May Tim's soul rest in peace and my sympathy to his family. They must be overwhelmed by all this craziness.

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WOW!.... That ad is wrong on so many levels. So Peta values the feelings and life of a chicken, but they clearly dont give a crap about the feelings or life of a human being. To further their "goals" at a berieved families exspence is disgusting and soooo ignorant. they havnt won me over to their cause. Peta needs some lessons in class and respect....of the human kind.

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Beheading is such henious crime a man will commit. noone is indespensable to do such acts comparable to insanity..

On the other hand, the nature of slaughterhouse killing animals is,too a horrifying crime. There are ways to treat..

This is just sickening. The worthless pieces of trash who thought up this repulsive advertisement really are sub-human. Those filthbags should be fed, alive, to a pack of cougars. We'd see how much they cared about saving animals then!