PETA Plans WoW Event to Battle Seal Slaughter

It looks like animal rights activism has found its way into the World of Warcraft. This Saturday at 1 p.m. EST, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is inviting players on the Whisperwind server to meet in Howling Fjord and combat a team of four Horde seal killers. According to the group, Thrall has refused to ban the slaughter of seals, so it's up to Alliance activists to stop them.

This event goes along with PETA's efforts to urge the Olympic Committee to help end the Canadian seal slaughter. According to the group, sealers will beat and skin up to 338,200 seals this year.

More information on the WoW event can be found in this PETA blog entry (via WoW Insider ). There's even a PETA YouTube video showing the horde team preparing to slaughter baby seals. What are your thoughts on the event? You can discuss it in our general forum in this thread.

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# Apr 10 2009 at 11:46 AM Rating: Decent
make it pvp event so they canbe takin out blizzard !!!!
PETA in MY WoW?
# Apr 10 2009 at 5:21 AM Rating: Decent
GTFO my WoW, you hypocritic idiots.

FACT: Peta attacks people for killing animals.

FACT: Peta kills 80% of the animals they 'rescue'. A lot of them don't even have anything wrong with them, mentally or physically.

FACT: Peta firebombs animal testing laboritories while their vice president uses those very same benefits of medical testing in her type A diabetes medicines.

FACT: Quote from PETA officials 'Violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they're tactics.'

FACT: They send their dipstick, convicted for terrorism firebombing leeches into schools to preach the PETA doctorine, and some have been recorded teaching high school and college students how to make bombs.

Shove off, PETA.
sorry
# Apr 08 2009 at 7:50 PM Rating: Decent
im sorry, i can hear you over the sound of me eating tasty sea kittens...

What the hell is this
# Apr 08 2009 at 2:50 PM Rating: Decent
What a load of pathetic nonsense.
Horde side left out
# Apr 08 2009 at 1:04 PM Rating: Decent
Why can't we play horde side and help skin some seals?
Skinning isn't hard to level, but then... don't all good statements need 2 sides?
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# Apr 08 2009 at 10:45 AM Rating: Decent
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I'd have some margin of respect for the PETA if they hadn't already tried to get people to stop eating fish and rename them 'sea Kittens' [link=ttp://www.peta.org/sea_kittens/](may God strike me down if I'm lying)[/link]

This is just another level of idiocy brought on by good manipulation of good intentions and bad information. They'd help more if they weren't so loaded up on crazy.

P.S. I think People Eating Tasty Animals would make a MUCH better use of PETA.
Blizzard is allowing it?
# Apr 08 2009 at 9:38 AM Rating: Decent
I don't know how much I like Blizzard letting them host such an event. The blizzard-specific stuff like DEHTA and Nessingwary are one thing, but I'd much prefer keeping my mmo in my mmo and my PETA in my PETA.

They are not two great tastes that taste great together.
Won't someone think of the virtual baby seals?
# Apr 08 2009 at 9:23 AM Rating: Decent
I think it's morally wrong to shed the virtual blood of virtual innocent animals for their virtual fur and virtual profit. I mean really, how do these people virtually sleep at night?

Serisouly... this is just downright ridiculous. PETA needs a new hobby. Go save some trees.

Edited, Apr 8th 2009 1:27pm by LolaWants
Want to set record straight
# Apr 08 2009 at 5:13 AM Rating: Good
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PETA should just go sit down and get their facts straight for just once in their veggie lives.

Yes, sealers are going to be killing 338,200 seals this year around Newfoundland, Cape Cod, Labrador, and places North or Iqaalut and Nuunavut. Out of a booming population of close to 2 MILLION, this number is rather small. This hunt is to control the population and increase the fishing stocks for the fishermen in the area who need to eek out a living for their families. It's not like sealers are going to wipe out the harp seals or leopard seals in one hunt. Kind of hard to do that.

The meat does not go to waste either. At the end of each kill day, when the seals are skinned, the meat is auctioned off to the native residents of the area who consider seal meat a delicacy. Has hell of a lot more protein in it than beef.

And no, the sealers are not going to kill white coats. The killing of any seal younger than 6 months is strictly prohibited. Anyone caught in the possession of a white coat pelt or a dead white coat is heavily fined ($5,000 US and up) and their license is revoked FOR LIFE. Seeing as this is the only other source of income aside from fishing (which sucks these days in terms of money) no one in their right mind would dare take the risk. After 6 months the white coat takes on the coloring of the adults and is weaned from Mom's milk. They are on their own at this point.

It is also illegal to approach or touch white coats. The McCartneys found this out first hand when, last year I believe, they came to Canada to protest the hunt and were slapped with a fine of $50,000 US each for that picture they had taken with a white coat.

I find it highly laughable that Europe would turn it's back on Canada's seal hunt when they were and are the biggest purchaser of seal products in the world.

PETA is just a bunch of tree-hugging, bean curd eating idiots who would rather pervert the truth to their cause than actually sit down and fact the cold hard facts. It's hypocritical of them to say all this about the seal hunt when their star-power members wear fur and leather coats and leather boots while trying to make us swallow their veggie tripe.

Sorry if I sound annoyed, but I am. I am Canadian and I support the hunt for the simple reason that it gives much needed jobs and income to people who otherwise would have none since the depleation of the fishing stocks.

Besides, killer whales and polar bears kill a lot more of the seals that the sealers do. What's PETA going to do about them?
peta=people eating tasty animals
# Apr 08 2009 at 4:45 AM Rating: Decent
personaly i dont belive in their cause and ill do the same on wow as when they put up a huge billboard in our town......... throw a huge BBQ under it and ivite everyone. hopefully the alliance will give them a nice surprise and pick up a club and help the horde with their BBQ
Killing animals like this is never okay!
# Apr 08 2009 at 4:27 AM Rating: Default
Ehm, correct me if I'm wrong, but...
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It is not a slaughter of seals, simply a harvesting of a resouce, like leather and meat from cows.


How is breeding cows, using their milk for all sorts of food and drinks, using their hide for all sorts of leather and slaughtering them for their meat (which I enjoy eating) the same as clubbing a seal and then ONLY USING THE FUR as a resource? Excuses me? I do agree that PETA-members are strange in the head and their methods are sometimes abominable, but come on! Do all the people who think clubbing seals is 'kinda ok' also think that breeding other animals only to slaughter them for their fur is 'kinda ok' too? And I really hate the "Oh, but we HAVE TO kill the seals, otherwise they'll eat all the fish"-attitude. Seals have been living in their territories for far longer than we humans are living there and hey, guess what? They never ate so much fish that it went extinct! That's the only kind of BS in this whole story, because if WE HUMANS hadn't interfered in the natural cycle of life of both seals, their prey AND their predators, they would all still be living in 'harmony' (or balance, so you will). So it's our fault that there are too many seals, because we either killed their predators by hunting them or messing up the environment - polar bears ring a bell? (and I have to say: where are the numbers on the seal population actually being too large?) and that gives US the RIGHT to club, yes, TO CLUB seals to death FOR THEIR FUR? Isn't there anyone here who sees the MAJOR LOGICAL FAULT in that kind of thinking?

And before I get all sorts of flames thrown my way... What have YOU done to save innocent beings (whether they be people or animals) in the past? It's so very easy to look down upon people who are trying to make difference - strange methods or not - when you never do anything remotely like it. I would never in my life have thought to read people actually condoning the slaughter of animals, but here I am, unfortunately.
Killing animals like this is never okay!
# Apr 09 2009 at 12:06 PM Rating: Good
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Seals have been living in their territories for far longer than we humans are living there and hey, guess what? They never ate so much fish that it went extinct!



Nice argument but you forget to factor in one thing...we've eliminated or nearly driven extinct many natural predators.

Here in Michigan we have about 1 deer per 3 people. The deer population is booming to the point other animal species are struggling to survive. We killed all of the wolves. Most of the coyote's. Most of the bobcats. In turn the deer population has exploded and is at a point where the government is paying in certain areas for controlled hunts of deer to protect the local wildlife.
PETA and their dishonesty
# Apr 08 2009 at 3:52 AM Rating: Decent
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The worst part is that people like Paul McCartney, Brigitte Bardot, and the looneys in PETA CONTINUE to circulate completely false information about the seal hunt: that baby seals are killed. They may not SAY that baby seals are being killed, but they continuously use white-coat babies in their advertisements. Sure the babies are far cuter than the adults... BUT, it is illegal to kill the baby seals! ONLY adults are killed during the brief once-a-year seal hunt.

And I'd MUCH rather the seal population were controlled than have overpopulation of these fish-eating sea mammals. The former is a necessary evil, if you will. The latter would be a terrible disaster for north-Atlantic fish populations.

I support the motion that as many people roll horde DKs on that server to attack the PETA members!

People: start now! you have two days to get through the DK starter area and get a few levels of insurance for HF.
#REDACTED, Posted: Apr 08 2009 at 4:30 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Ehm, correct me if I'm wrong, but...
PETA and their dishonesty
# Apr 09 2009 at 9:56 PM Rating: Decent
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It's so very easy to look down upon people who are trying to make difference - strange methods or not - when you never do anything remotely like it.


Al Qaeda = PETA
PETA and their dishonesty
# Apr 08 2009 at 10:48 PM Rating: Decent
So you would rather animals increase in population to the point of overpopulation which will result in starvation, disease and ultimately death. You indicate you are humane yet you would subject animals to this type of torture. That natural cycle you talk about is exactly what I have pointed out before. Before thinking you are high and mighty and above everyone else take a moment to think about what letting populations increase to disastrous proportions can do.
PETA and their dishonesty
# Apr 08 2009 at 5:15 AM Rating: Good
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Clubbing is illigal since 1987. Sealers are now required to ensure a clean kill with one strike or shot for humane purposes.
PETA and their dishonesty
# Apr 08 2009 at 4:42 AM Rating: Good
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ptarn wrote:
Ehm, correct me if I'm wrong, but...
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It is not a slaughter of seals, simply a harvesting of a resouce, like leather and meat from cows.


How is breeding cows, using their milk for all sorts of food and drinks, using their hide for all sorts of leather and slaughtering them for their meat (which I enjoy eating) the same as clubbing a seal and then ONLY USING THE FUR as a resource?



Honey bunny, please, at least quote the right person.

And yes, seals have far fewer predators now than they did before people showed up from Europe (although, people WERE here before then, AND killing and eating seals, BTW).

And sure, seals eat fish. But so do we. Fish are a renewable resource if used intelligently.
I believe the Canadian government DOES have the responsibility to control the seal population so that Canadian fishermen can continue their livelihood (by the way, most seal hunters are also fishermen, and concerned about the environment, since their very lives depend on the fragile balance).

And the seals are NOT "clubbed" to death. Stop promoting more of PETA's BS. The seals are killed with guns. Rapidly and as humanely as any other animal, if not more-so.

As for what I've done in the past to save animals?
I don't eat whale meat.
I don't wear wolf fur.
I don't have any ivory decorative items in my house.

What have YOU done other than post ignorant tripe on this forum?
right...
# Apr 08 2009 at 12:02 AM Rating: Decent
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Maybe they should venture into Borean Tundra and see the NPC's that basically make fun of them. I doubt there are very many people who respect them. I am against animal cruelty etc but I don't want to drink human breast milk (which at one point they suggested), and I put human life up alot higher then any animal out there. They take there beliefs way too far.

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Bullshit!
# Apr 08 2009 at 12:01 AM Rating: Decent
**** this ****. I will not have terrorists in my game.

Terrorists? Yes. Watch the episode of Penn and Teller's ********* about PETA. Legit terrorism at its finest.
PETethicA
# Apr 07 2009 at 10:02 PM Rating: Decent
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PETA is just a bullsh*t organization trying to get nothing more than their way because they want to impede society.
This.

Nothing more than a bunch of pathetic loons.
Seals?
# Apr 07 2009 at 9:51 PM Rating: Decent
Are there actually seals in Howling Fjord?
PETA QQ'ing
# Apr 07 2009 at 7:12 PM Rating: Good
Love how in the video they try and block a valid point with the "You're straying away from the topic" card. Now if you ask me, this is just pure BS to the nth degree here.


Even on WoW this is pretty humane. It's not like blood comes gushing from them from a Hunter's bow and arrow. It's not like warriors cut a seal in half, it makes a dying noise and falls over and lays there with a gray name showing it is defeated. It'll later respawn.

IRL it isn't like Canada is doing this to destroy the seal population this is controlled and regulated. When you think about it, PETA is just a ******** organization trying to get nothing more than their way because they want to impede society.
Gang murder
# Apr 07 2009 at 6:48 PM Rating: Good
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Belated April Fools...?


Does anyone else find great irony in PETA hosting an event protesting animal slaughter in a game whose NUMBER ONE quest model is to go kill countless animals?


I'm half tempted to roll and level a horde death knight to protest PETA.


I by no means support the inhumane treatment of animals. But I also believe human lives > animal lives. I think it is highly unethical to promote the murder of human beings. That's what this is. "we don't like your environmental policies so we're going to make a mock gang murder". GG PETA.
Hope they die
# Apr 07 2009 at 4:45 PM Rating: Decent
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Well if the 4 horde are played by PETA to just die.. hopefully a large portion of horde show up to destroy peta and the alliance leave them alone.
How about...
# Apr 07 2009 at 4:09 PM Rating: Default
We just club PETA's people?

Wisely hunting animals is fine (in this case being regulated by the Canadian Gov't).


Wonder if I should pay a visit to Whisperwind; should be plenty of honor-kills there >:)
so killing people is ok though
# Apr 07 2009 at 2:24 PM Rating: Decent
I'm sure the 4 flagged seal killers will be enthusiastically ganked, most likely putting up only token resistance, in some twisted way saying murder is ok if it's for what you consider a righteous cause. Not at all surprising.
PETA- not wanted
# Apr 07 2009 at 1:24 PM Rating: Decent
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I want to join the horde team to slaughter baby seals. lol

Seriously though I'm sick of PETA and their bs. It is not a slaughter of seals, simply a harvesting of a resouce, like leather and meat from cows.
Sure-it looks barbaric, but I'm sure if you saw how your hamburgers,steaks,ribs,etc. were made you'd think that was just as barbaric.

Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams vs. Paul McCarthy/PETA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmL-oSm5G3c

I live in Newfoundland, and I totally agree with Danny Williams.
PETA has no place in WoW- if they get their way nobody will be allowed to eat meat or wear leather/furs. We'll all be forced to live like rabbits eating
nothing but veggies.
PETA- not wanted
# Apr 07 2009 at 6:11 PM Rating: Excellent
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Gerrwyn wrote:
I live in Newfoundland, and I totally agree with Danny Williams.
PETA has no place in WoW- if they get their way nobody will be allowed to eat meat or wear leather/furs. We'll all be forced to live like rabbits eating
nothing but veggies.


Not just veggies. Human breastmilk ice cream is perfectly fine with PETA, as I recall.
PETA- not wanted
# Apr 07 2009 at 3:46 PM Rating: Default
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I agree completely with this , I may not agree with everything Danny Williams says but in this I'm his side entirely.
PETA- not wanted
# Apr 08 2009 at 10:17 AM Rating: Decent
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Danny Williams for Prime Minister!!!

OMG! Could you imagine that happening??
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