PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals)
"Take a progressive step and give animals the respect that they deserve by revising AP style guidelines to reflect the usage of personal pronouns for all animals."
- A campaign asking "The Associated Press Stylebook" to start referring to animals as human, with human names.
**Personally, I have no problem referring to baby kangaroos, wallaby, wombat, koala or opossum as Joey, a goat as Billy, a pronghorn as Fawn, or a horse, zebra and donkey as Colt, but anything other than these is pure crazyiness........Which is why it makes perfect sense to the clowns at PETA.
Speaking of clowns and PETA, I can hardly wait for the circus to come to town.**
- A campaign asking "The Associated Press Stylebook" to start referring to animals as human, with human names.
**Personally, I have no problem referring to baby kangaroos, wallaby, wombat, koala or opossum as Joey, a goat as Billy, a pronghorn as Fawn, or a horse, zebra and donkey as Colt, but anything other than these is pure crazyiness........Which is why it makes perfect sense to the clowns at PETA.
Speaking of clowns and PETA, I can hardly wait for the circus to come to town.**
posted by Poison Pero @ Friday, May 11, 2007
2 Comments:
At 12:27 PM,
Anonymous said…
While I can't stand PETA and their hypocrisy, they're referring to PRO-nouns, i.e. "he" or "she" as opposed to "it", not PROPER nouns like Fred, Larry, or Sarah.
I'm not sure what the big deals is: I don't know anyone who refers to their pets as "it". Given that over 95% of pet owners consider pets as family members, this kind of crap from PETA is pretty much useless.
At 6:54 PM,
Poison Pero said…
Thanks for the reminder, Henry.....I read it too fast, and assumed "proper" nouns.
Either way, they are nuts, and animals should be referred to as animals.
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