There are alot of celebs I would not expect to support PETA that do.


WHat other celebs support various cuases that you might find surprising?

Imago777 said:

GO PAMMIE!!!

Imago777 said:

kid rock wtf


free beer i guess

Christopher said:

Maybe Pam pulled a Soup Nazi on him.

"no blowjob for you, one year!"

Imago777 said:

but then he said he didnt care cause that lady to the right "would do it anyway dude....fuckin a!"

and he went for that free blue ribbon!

Christopher said:

jerseykrs said:

The sexual tension between the two of us can be the wind beneath PETA's wings.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

true

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Rue's with Peta too? 2 out 4 Golden Girls?! oh that does it.....I'm joining PETA NOW!

AnckSuNamun said:

make that four out of four!



Estelle Getty has also done some work for PETA, but i can't find any pics.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

My Idols ok....I'm really signing up for PETA now.

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With the possibility of a world wide pandemic because of bird flu, not eating meat sounds like a good idea:

http://www.goveg.com/birdflu.asp

Eating Meat Threatens Millions With Bird Flu



Modern factory farms raise animals in extremely unnatural conditions, in overcrowded sheds, living in their own filth and breathing polluted air. It is little surprise that these have become major sources for deadly disease outbreaks like SARS, hoof-and-mouth disease, mad cow disease, the Johnes virus, and now the most dangerous of all: bird flu.

Avian influenza, or “bird flu,” threatens humanity with the greatest public health crisis in recorded history. Experts warn that the disease could kill one in eight human beings, including 40 million Americans, and cause a collapse of the world economy. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it can be caught simply by eating undercooked meat or eggs, by eating undercooked food prepared on the same cutting board as infected meat or eggs, or even by touching eggshells contaminated with the disease.

The risk could not be more dire. Experts describe it as “a nation-busting event” (Tara O’Toole, CEO of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Center for Biosecurity) and “what could arguably be the most horrific disaster in modern history” (Dr. Gregory A. Poland of the Mayo Clinic). They describe the effects on society: “We haven’t even begun to conceive of, to understand, to comprehend what that may mean for our workplace” (Dr. Jeffrey Levi of George Washington University’s Department of Health Policy); “[S]chools are closed ... transportation systems are curtailed or shut down ... Critical infrastructure will or may fail: food, water, power, gas, electricity” (Dr. Constance Hanna, corporate director of health services, Honeywell International); and “When this happens, time will be described, for those left living, as before and after the pandemic” (Poland).

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt called the likelihood of an influenza pandemic “very high, some say even certain.” Just walk into any factory-farm chicken or turkey shed and it’s easy to see why. One shed houses tens of thousands of birds who are never allowed outside and are cooped up in their own filth. When one bird gets sick, the disease can quickly spread to all of them. The conditions in these sheds provide ideal breeding grounds for pathogens, with birds living in their own feces from birth to slaughter and laying hens kept in stacked cages so that feces from the birds on top fall on the birds below. The air in the sheds is so filthy with ammonia and dust that it burns their eyes and throats. Learn more about the chicken and turkey industries.

Farmers know that they have created incubation centers for disease outbreaks, so they dose their animals with massive amounts of drugs. In fact, in the U.S., chickens receive more than three times as many antibiotics as people do. However, these antibiotics are only temporarily effective against bacteria and completely useless against viruses such as the bird flu virus. Moreover, the virus is constantly changing, and weaker forms are known to mutate in just months into extremely virulent strains for which there exists no effective treatment or vaccine.

And the problem is not restricted to birds: Pigs and dairy cows, who live under similarly intensive crowded and unsanitary conditions can also get and spread this or similar viruses. Hans-Gerhard Wagner, a senior officer with the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization, has called such “intensive industrial farming of livestock” an “opportunity for emerging disease”—these are veritable flu-making factories.

The current strain of bird flu has already spread from Asia to Europe, infecting 117 people and killing more than half of them. Even if this strain does not cause a pandemic, experts believe that it’s only a matter of time before another one does, as these viruses are constantly mutating into more virulent forms. Relatively benign forms of the virus in birds are known to mutate into highly pathogenic forms that are not treatable with currently available drugs in just a few months. Outbreaks of other strains are regularly detected, including in the U.S., where as recently as 2004 the disease was found in flocks in Texas and the mid-Atlantic states.

Every time you put yourself in contact with or consume animal products, you risk infecting yourself with this or some other deadly virus.

AnckSuNamun said:

be sure to come up and join us for some protests!

IrresistibleB1tch said:

I'm not much of a protester I'm gonna force myself to join the rally against domestic violence next year.....my voice really should be heard. I hate playing favorites, but I'm more likely to be vocal about this issue over any others.

rock on kid rock!

AnckSuNamun said:

you'll be hooked!

IrresistibleB1tch said:

I'm still kicking myself for not attending the rally this year.....it was a really important one to that led to the passing of a new bill I mean it's good the bill was passed , I just wish I could've been a part of it, you know. What's funny is that a bill that made cockfighting illegal was passed led to the rally.

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Anxiety said:

Exactly. Kid Rock is supporting PETA because he is (or was) doing Pam.

I found it surprising that Neil Young would be asked to contribute a song to the soundtrack of Philadelphia, as he had made this statement to Melody Maker in 1985 (on the subject of AIDS):



Neil Young also supported Reagan, yet went on to cameo on the "Vote for Change" Tour.

Now you might say that the man had an epiphany somewhere between 1985 and 1993 and this is what inspired him to change his views. Being the cynic I am (and believing Young to be a none-too-bright poseur of the first order), I would say that he witnessed the backlash to his views and adjusted them accordingly.

I also found it incredibly ironic to see Elvis Costello recording with Artists Against Apartheid and singing "All You Need is Love" at Live Aid when he'd once pronounced Ray Charles a "blind, ignorant nigger".

Ace said:

where did you hear this from?

Imago777 said:

What a hypocrite! Look at that squirrel under his hat!

brownsugar said:

It's very well-documented (the incident took place in the late '70s). From Wikipedia:


Take it for what you will.
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Ace said:[quote]

brownsugar said:

i'm a fan of costello. part of me wants to excuse it as being drunk and stupid but deep down i think drunkiness just brings out what we're really thinking. too bad. i hope his work in "rock against racism" was sincere.

brownsugar said:

From the horse's mouth (Rolling Stone, September 2, 1982):


Again, take it for what you will.
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Ace said:[quote]

brownsugar said:

is he referring ray charles? or the people he was arguing with? this stumps me. i used to be a fan of guns and roses 'till they came out with a"GnR lies" and i heard "one in a million". i stopped buying their albums. what i get from it is that he was saying something to make them angry but bonnie bramlet isn't black so how is that insulting her? and if he's taking a jab at american music using the 'n' word serves no space for it. but then again he was drunk and thats when things dont make sense so that makes sense. i'm confusing myself.

brownsugar said:

The latter.