Comments on: PETA’s “Holocaust on Your Plate” Campaign

By: POLSKA

POLSKA — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:44:00 +0000

TU POLSKA, PRZEJMUJEMY TĘ STRONĘ!

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[...] decade — dumps the bodies in a huge walk-in freezer, and sends them to be cremated. Terrible. The comparisons to the Holocaust are so obvious that it feels redundant to point them [...]

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Moving Animals: Spectacular Animal Films (Part 1) — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:22:30 +0000

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Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:29:48 +0000

[...] happy to see their ordeal compared to a chicken nugget. This doesn’t stop PETA, of course. One local ad campaign of theirs focused on a grisly murder in Manitoba fairly soon after it [...]

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King- Relevant Text Log 2 | busybusycolette — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:55:01 +0000

[...] companies were able to make between their cause and the atrocities of human actions. The use of Holocaust images in contrast with the treatment of animals is a powerful image, and yet I couldn’t help but feel angry at PETA for belittling the [...]

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Wed, 25 May 2011 13:06:21 +0000

[...] As a Jew I was thoroughly disgusted when they previously exploited the Holocaust in their ads. Well, just in case I thought PETA couldn’t piss me off any more, they did with their ads in [...]

By: Why I like PETA (and why I like Chris Morris) « The Vegantry

Why I like PETA (and why I like Chris Morris) « The Vegantry — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:21:26 +0000

[...] Whilst an ad campaign like “Holocaust On Your Plate” (some images of which can be seen here) can seem immediately repulsive to many people, I believe it is this immediate reaction which is [...]

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:26:08 +0000

What about people with difficulties which mean they can’t speak out for themselves? Should they be denied rights too?

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By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:30:43 +0000

First, i agree that using the Holocaust imagery is offensive and alienates people from the cause. And i agree Yael with your statement about the how and why.

But it is not simply about whether humans should eat meat or not, it is about the horrible suffering inflicted on billions of animals that they endure throughout their lives in factory farms.

And though i believe we should draw parallels between human suffering and animal suffering (much more than we do), it doesn’t have to be about stating an equivalency between humans and animals.

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 01 May 2010 20:43:00 +0000

animals contribute by sadly feeding us.

By: CJ Colsen

CJ Colsen — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:19:39 +0000

Hey Yael.

I appreciate your response.

It sounds like we are mostly on the same page. I agree with you that it’s fucked up when people say things like “feminazi” or “grammar nazi.” I agree with you that the holocaust should not be taken lightly. I agree that “holocaust” should not be used as a synonym for “bad.”

But imagine just for a moment– what if something were to happen that was as terrible as the holocaust? Let’s say it didn’t happen to Jews this time, but it happened to others this time? What if a huge group of individuals — as many as those in the holocaust, or maybe even more — maybe a hundred times more — were locked up against their will, even though they had committed no crime? What if this was done to infants? What if they were torn away from their families, had their body parts sliced off without anesthesia, were made to live in filthy conditions, were beaten and burned, were forced to watch while their friends died, and then were killed themselves in various violent, painful ways? What if they never got to see grass, nor sun, for their entire lives? What if they were not even given the freedom to stand up, stretch out their limbs, or lie down comfortably — not even once?

Sadly, this exact situation is happening right now. For an introduction, you can watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4

By: Yael

Yael — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:43:06 +0000

CJ: No. No, no, no.
This is a horrible, offensive campaign.
Bad as people may treat animals (and even as a carnivore, I can see that point about raising animals for meat), it is NOT the same as the holocaust. You are, just as I explained, looking at the ‘how’ rather than the ‘why’.
The Nazis put other human bengs in ghettos and concentration camps, and killed them in great masses, because they saw those other human beings not only as inferior but as something so vile that they are polluting the earth and the human race by their very existence. They thought that the ideal solution is to destroy every single one of those inferior people.
Show me the human leader that thinks cows or chickens or whatever are a cancer that needs to be wiped from the face of this planet. Show me the meat eater that thinks that by killing animals it is doing the world a favour. Then and only then will I agree to a holocaust comparison – and even then, only in relation to that specific person.
Ignoring the reasons for the Nazis’ actions – saying that a campaign like this is good because ‘the holocaust was horrible, ergo everything that is even mildly horrible is totally like the holocaust’ – is basically diluting the importance of the actual events of the holocaust. (I feel the same, by the way, with the ubiquitus ‘nazi’ tag in things like ‘feminazi’ or ‘grammar nazi’; once again, it’s blurring the actual meaning, the actual deeds of the Nazis, into a vague ‘bad dictator-type thing’ label)
The way to make sure nothing like that ever happens again is by making sure that these images and concepts are not taken easily, and not used as a synonym for ‘bad’ – by making sure that they keep the full horror that they represent. By learning and remembering the true context, the full details of the holocaust, of the Nazi cincentration and extermination camps, of the whole Nazi mechanism. Not by using them for whatever means your personal ideological belief deems worthy.