PETA get's slap in the face.....

Ontario Bow Hunter · Post by **Ontario Bow Hunter** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 9:24 am

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/OttawaSun ... 96169.html

Sun, August 22, 2004

PETA billboard refused

By CP

ST. JOHN'S, NFLD. -- An animal-rights group says a Newfoundland ad firm has refused to put up a billboard equating eating hamburgers with child abuse. A billboard proposed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals featured a chubby-faced child about to eat a hamburger and carried the tag line: Feeding kids meat is child abuse.

PETA decided to erect the billboard in St. John's after a recent Memorial University study reported alarming levels of obesity in Newfoundland preschoolers.

The animal-rights group was told through its booking agent that it was "not going to be able to place this board -- feel free to submit something different," PETA campaign co-ordinator Matt Rice said in a telephone interview from Norfolk, Va.

PETA officials tried by phone and e-mail to find out a reason for the decision, but didn't receive a response, Rice said.

E.C. Boone handles billboard placements in St. John's for booking agencies.

Company president David Boone could not be reached for comment.

Spring · Post by **Spring** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 9:44 am

Wow!

Trust the Newfies to feel obliged to be politically correct. Bravo to whoever it was who rightly pointed out that this billboard is alittle over the top and not appropriate in their community.

PETA has an "in your face" mentality where they bully their way anywhere they want to go. Nice to see folks subtly stand up to them.

I wish the rest of the country would follow their example.

Cheers!

Spring · Post by **Spring** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 9:47 am

The first line of my previous post should have read "Trust the Newfies not to feel obliged to be politically correct".

Kinda gives that line the meaning I wanted. Sorry about the poor editing.

Cheers!

chris4570 · Post by **chris4570** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:06 pm

Excellent!

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ecoaster · Post by **ecoaster** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:05 am

I guess those idiots would rather see those kids starve to death. Last time I checked NFLD's industry was by far based on natural resources (fishing!). There isn't a lot of agricultural land on the rock either. These people have been living off those resourcs for hundreds of years, so it didn't surprise me to hear them telling PETA to get lost.