RE: PEtA Makes light of serial killers victims
Here ya go.
The killings are perhaps the worst serial killings in Candian history. They believe that upwards of 50 women were killed and their bodies ground up at the farm. Authorities are suspicious that the guy actually fed the victims to his pigs.
Anti-meat billboard ads 'unacceptable,' PM says
Thu Apr 8 2004
RIVIERE-DU-LOUP, Que. -- A new anti-meat ad campaign that exploits some horrific killings in British Columbia was condemned as unacceptable by Prime Minister Paul Martin yesterday.
The outdoor billboard ad, sponsored by the militant animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), shows a head shot of a pretty young woman on one side and a "smiling" pig on the other, along with the slogan Neither Of Us Is Meat.
The ad is a reference to the case of Robert Pickton, the Port Coquitlam, B.C., pig farmer charged in the deaths of 15 women.
"Those ads are simply unacceptable," Martin said while on swing through Quebec. "When you think of the terrible, terrible trauma that affected all of those women in British Columbia -- when you think of what those families are going through right now -- that kind of publicity is just not acceptable."
In response, PETA said, "We can't imagine that Mr. Martin has seen the ad, since the ad clearly represents both humans and other animals as deserving of our respect and empathy."
The statement, from Bruce Friedrich, director of vegan campaigns, said there is "nothing offensive about an ad that points out, as is simply true, that other animals value their lives." Relatives of the victims have condemned the billboards, which went up in Toronto and Edmonton this week. PETA plans to expand the campaign next month by posting flyers in downtown Vancouver, Ottawa and Montreal.
-- Canadian Press
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