PETA’s Sea Kitten Campaign Gets Pranked With Steak Ad
Some clever techies confused PETA supporters today by pulling a well-executed prank against their campaign to “re-brand” fish as sea kittens.
For at least a couple hours today, the internet was abuzz with the fact that www.SeaKittens.com had an Omaha Steaks ad smack-dab at the top of the page. But PETA can’t really be that careless, right?
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Turns out that the page is a line-by-line duplicate of PETA’s actual sea kittens campaign site, but it’s not owned by PETA at all. According to Alley Insider, PETA has confirmed that the site is a parody and that they are not running any steak ads.
All jokes aside, giving up meat is one of the best ways you can help stop the advancement of global warming and air and water pollution.
More information about the environmental impact of meat:
- UN’s Top Climate Scientist Urges People to Combat Climate Change by Eating Less Meat
- German Government Advisory: Eat Meat Only on Special Ocassions
- The Hidden Giant #1: “Food” — Vegetarianism
- Meat is murder on the environment
- How poultry producers are ravaging the rural South
Give up meat? Yeah right. Go ahead, more for us healthy folk.
Weaksauce. Any chump can copy a website.
To those people saying ‘for any animal you eat, I’ll eat three’…
The day the animals will be ’saved’ will be when you drop dead of a myocardial infarction.
Just saying.
Your (family’s) loss is their gain.
Since Obama’s in office now, maybe they should change their Sea Kitten Fact about them being smarter and cuter than the president. People might get a little confused….
The site still seems to be up, which is pretty weird because the whole prank is - after all - quite a hefty copyright violation. Ususally, this would get removed quicker. Maybe PETA has not noticed seakittens.com yet?
It takes 6 times the amount of land to feed a meat eater than a vegetarian, beef cattle need about 8 kilos of feed for every kilogram of meat they produce, they also produce a hell of an amount of methane.
http://www.ivu.org/congress/2006/texts/jayant.html
If me giving up meat will stop global warming, then you had all better get used to high temperatures.
To all the dumbasses saying that we should eat cows because they produce methane, if we didn’t eat them we wouldn’t be breeding them in the high numbers that we do, so there would be fewer. Farms are a business, they follow supply and demand. We demand more beef, they breed more cows, and hence more methane. We demand less beef, and they breed less cows and less methane. Also, we wouldn’t have to chop down forests to feed all the vegetarians. We would just used the land that currently grows food for cows and instead grow food for people.
Did any of you meat eaters read the article? If you click the links under this title is show you the facts about the carbon footprint of meat production. More information about the environmental impact of meat:
* UN’s Top Climate Scientist Urges People to Combat Climate Change by Eating Less Meat
* German Government Advisory: Eat Meat Only on Special Ocassions
* The Hidden Giant #1: “Food” — Vegetarianism
* Meat is murder on the environment
* How poultry producers are ravaging the rural South
Local farms and farmers markets provide local plant-based foods that are not only healthier for you but also don’t leave a big carbon footprint as animal-based products. Buy local and live longer.
Read The China Study to learn why eating animal-based foods will dramatically increase your chances of preventable diseases and premature death.
“Come seriously — not eating meat reduces global warming?
What about all the tractors and combines it takes to harvest crops? Or the water used to irrigate the crops and the run-off that results.
Hippies are clueless.”
Actually, YOU are clueless. Yes you need this technology to raise the crops. But when you raise animals you have to raise crops to feed them many times. So multiply the “irrgate the crops and the runoff that results” by the number of times the cows need to eat and you’ll see how much worse meat is for the environment.