Punxsutawney PETA: Animal Rights Organization Wants Town To Use Robotic Groundhog

[paulsby]

http://jonathanturley.org/2010/01/28/punxsutawney-peta-animal-rights-organization-wants-town-to-use-robotic-groundhog/#more-19792

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) wants Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to free its famous groundhog and use a robotic animal to stop what it views as cruelty to Phil. In response, the town insists that Phil lives a better life than most children in Pennsylvania — which raises some serious questions about the lives of kids in that state that live below the standards of a large caged rodent.
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[Botany]

1. Does PETA know that people shoot groundhogs as pests all the time?

And that Phil gets to miss this fate because of his once a year fame.

[Lasher]

2. Automation.

This is all we need, with all those groundhogs out of work already.

[Sherman A1]

3. Precisely

This is one hard working Ground Hog and we should honor his work.

[Monk06]

4. Time for Phil to organize

www.seiu.org

[Bonn1997]

5. The article doesn't have one quote from PETA. It's poor journalism.

[dems_rightnow]

6. This should make you happy then

http://www.peta.org/MC/NewsItem.asp?id=14197

It's from PETA's website.

[tularetom]

10. Doesn't have a quote from Punxsatawney Phil either

I'm guessing he really doesn't give a rats ass.

[MichellesBFF]

7. I wish they'd fire him too!

He always gives the wrong prediction. More winter. Bleah!

[SpiralHawk]

8. "We demand they use a Robot Sun, too." - Sun Worshipers

[Coyote_Bandit]

9. PETA?

I couldn't fucking care less what they think.....

[Gman]

11. Somebody tell them to STFU

I think they say this crap sometimes just to piss people off then laugh among themselves about it.

[Homer Wells]

12. I would say that PETA has jumped the shark

but I am sure that some members of that organization would consider that animal cruelty, and would insist that they use "Bruce", the mechanical shark from JAWS!

:silly: