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| Furry Pies Peeved PETA Protestor |
| 2010-01-30 |
| In an ironic twist, a protester from the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was pied in Newfoundland on Friday. The unusual scene unfolded in St. John's as a group of people were waiting outside for the arrival of Prime Minister Stephen Harper at an event. The protester, 21-year-old Emily Lavender, was dressed as a seal and was holding a sign that read: "Harper Stop the Seal Slaughter." However, a man dressed up in a dog suit arrived, knocked off the head on Lavender's seal cost costume and tossed a pie in her face. The man in the dog suit then took off down the street. PETA made headlines earlier in the week when one of their members pied Fisheries Minister Gail Shea in the face in protest of the seal hunt. After Friday's sneak pie attack, Lavender told reporters that the Shea incident wasn't out of line. "It's not nearly as embarrassing as the blood on her hands,' she said. “And it's time she stop supporting the largest massacre of marine mammals on the planet." The dog-costumed man wasn't the only person who took offence to Lavender's protest. Standing nearby, local Wallace Ryan, wearing a shirt that read “If seals were ugly, nobody would give a damn,' told Lavender to go home. "We're here to point out that PETA has incited violence and hate against Newfoundland and Labrador for years," he said. It's not clear if any organized group was behind Friday's pie plot. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #5 No, 746, they just want us to be hungry. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2010-01-30 15:12 |
| #4 I'm pretty sure tourists pay to go on baby seal hunts in Norway, we're hunters people, humans are carniverous, we have eyes in the front of our heads for binocular vision,easier to size up prey accurately. We have hunted for millions of years too. Caveman Bob didnt have the option of "buying" organic soy/flax oil yogurt nuts. No he went out and killed a deer while the wifey picked innumerable berries and nuts (hence the flattened teeth of humans) PETA people would have been very hungry people. |
| Posted by: 746 2010-01-30 11:55 |
| #3 People Eating Tasty Animal advocates The Promotion A man was captured by cannibals. "What," asked the cannibal chief, licking his lips, "was your job before you were captured?" "I was a newspaper man," came the reply. "An editor?" "No, merely a sub-editor." "Cheer up. Promotion awaits you. After dinner you will be editor-in-chief." |
| Posted by: Uloluter Darling of the Munchkins5034 2010-01-30 11:34 |
| #2 Im of several minds on this: Having watched a video of this "Newfoundland way of doing things" which was difficult to watch I have these few simple observations: 1. Two wrongs don't make a right. 2. Causing needless suffering to baby seals is not a political issue, its a humane issue, and it high time hunters abided a code to reduce suffering wherever is possible. 3. We're the top of the food chain and we're being outdone by some of our subordinate mammals in terms of kill efficiency. 4. You can kill a prey quickly to put it out of its misery and you should. Way to go Newfoundland You're mightily sick and wrong on both sides of the issue- get a new hobby the lot of you, PETA included. |
| Posted by: GirlThursday 2010-01-30 01:38 |
| #1 Flipper pie is a Canadian dish made from seal flippers. It is specific to Newfoundland and commonly eaten at Easter. The tender meat of the seal flipper, carrots & turnip are blended in a thick gravy, topped with a biscuit crust. Flipper pie is not an everyday meal...but it does make a nice Sunday dinner, or a special occasion meal. The meat is dark, oily and gamey. The flavour is similar to that of hare, but it is much richer and denser in texture. Newfoundland Flipper Pie 2 seal flippers 1 small turnip, cubed 3 carrots , sliced 2 onions, sliced 1 parsnip, sliced 2 ½ cups water 1 ½ oz screech ½ fat back pork 2 tbsp vinegar DUMPLING PASTRY: 1 ½ cups flour 2 tsp baking powder small pat of butter |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2010-01-30 01:06 |