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http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/14/al_jazeera_peta/index.html

Al-Jazeera criticized for not running PETA ad


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April 14, 2003 | NEW YORK (AP) --

A vegetarian activist group says the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera is willing to run graphic footage of human war victims but won't accept their commercial showing bloody animals.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said Monday it offered to pay the network $10,000 to run its 30-second Arabic-dubbed spot, but was refused. Al-Jazeera said it's still possible the ad may run.

PETA specifically targeted Al-Jazeera because the news network was in the news early in the war for airing pictures of bloody American bodies.

The ad shows cows hanging upside down in a slaughterhouse after their throats had been slit, goats being killed and a chicken thrown violently at a box. It hasn't aired on any television network.

"It's certainly curious that they would be willing to show people the outcome of war but not be willing to show people the outcome of choosing to eat meat," said Bruce Friedrich, PETA's director of vegan outreach.

But Mostapha Saout of Allied Information, a company that arranges advertising for Arabic-speaking networks in the United States, said Al-Jazeera held off because of sensitivity to its own personnel killed in the war with Iraq.

"We are looking at it again," he said. "It wasn't a final decision."

[Marko Kloos]

"It's certainly curious that they would be willing to show people the outcome of war but not be willing to show people the outcome of choosing to eat meat,"

The outcome of choosing to eat meat...a satisfyingly full belly after eating a nice, medium rare ribeye.

[Soap]

PETA is just capitalizing on a problem in modern society: that no one really knows where their food comes from. Take the modern supermarket family and show them the care that goes into the growing of their popcorn or the scenes in a slaughterhouse and they will be amazed/shocked/etc. What is the cure for this? Hunting.

For me, there is a large amount of spirituality that can go into stalking an animal, killing it, and eating it. I would never be able to even remotely explain that to one of the vegans that are in the Purdue Leftist Society. They really don't understand nature if they don't understand the omnivore or the carnivore.

[Jesse H]

They really don't understand nature if they don't understand the omnivore or the carnivore.

Well said.

[Bergeron]

a chicken thrown violently at a box

Man, I want to see that footage! :p

[Hkmp5sd]

"I was 23 before before I found out stuff didn't grow canned."

- Chollo
Thin Air by Robert B. Parker

[MeekandMild]

Hey wait a second! I just saw a TV ad where they were growing cereal boxes...:confused:

[ahadams]

Somebody tell Al jazeera that peta is actually a CIA front and they're using their commercials to send coded messages to their operatives in arab countries! this could be a lot of fun to watch!:D