Fuck PETA.

@Styles
Also, watch the PETA: Penn and Teller's Bullshit episode, it has a ton more tid-bits, especially regarding the enigmatic leader of PETA.

I remember the first thing I ever heard about PETA doing was throwing red paint onto people with fur coats, and giving little children gruesome pamphlets that said "your mommy kills animals" (which says a lot about their reputation).

I hope someday a smarmy lawyer finds a way to bankrupt them for tax evasion, or harassment or some shit.

PETA is full of bullshit. They're giant hypocrites.

.... are you serious...? It's just a game! and how many of these gamers will actually take this, go out and become involved with a circus and abuse animals... like 1 3/4 outta 2 million... stupid PETA, Stupid, stupid PETA

I'm buying three now!

ok I'm not the game will probably suck

While I do enjoy the Circus, however I can see how this game does endorse the system that is the circus and all it's relevant attachments. On a direct note, I'm sure that Ringling Bros. does get a cut of the profits as part of the partnership.

That said, Peta STFU please, if I still eat at KFC after all the horrible things it does to the yummy yummy food then I sure as hell wont base my decision to buy/not buy this game based on animal rights...

What a bunch of hypocrites! Styles speaks the truth about what PETA does behind closed doors. They're just like Jesse Jackson except instead of exploiting black people it's animals.

When are those furry lovers hippies stop?

You know that PETA is really veering off from whatever is supposed to be their aim when you see them staging protests with naked women walking around on all fours.

Yup, nothing beats getting people to your cause than naked wimminz on all fours.

Where the hell was PETA when Lara Croft was killing off wild life like a big game hunter on crack. I'm sure some of the tigers she shot down were on the endangered species list.

now they're working on getting the developer to cease and desist development

HA!

@Holiday: or when Activision released Cabela's Big Game Hunter, which was solely to kill for sport. Perhaps they should come out with a "Hunting Mama" where you kill, clean, and cook the food. Mmmm...deer jerky

Regarding article and linked pdf file found here: http://www.consumerfreedom.com/pressRelease_detail.cfm/release/258

The article takes this document out of context. If you actually look at those numbers, most animals are returned to their actual owners, while some are replaced or moved to shelters. Animals you find on the street are often in very bad shape, and you can't just give them a shot of magic medicine to fix them. They cost a lot more to treat for serious diseases and disabilites as results of improper treatment and inability to live by themselves than any normal human does. I know this out of experience. Sure, PETA might have a 32$ million budget, but money can't fix everything. People die all the time because they can't be treated for their illness; AIDS, HIV, cancer, etc..

I'm not pro-PETA, mind you, at least not blindly. They have their flaws, and I do not like the way they fight for animal rights all of the time. I still find it sad how people tend to bash them without knowing anything other than what the mass-media reports about them. The meat industry is without any doubt a corrupt monetary business that has outgrown itself a long time ago, and it has ties to a disturbing amount of media corporations. You don't need to believe in conspiracies to acknowledge its influence, you simply have to logically think how one industry can supply all of the millions of people it serves with meat and still be an ethical and "clean" business...

I wonder if you took "pro-PETA" out of context.

Man, is context so hard to grasp? Is a valuable and perhaps even worthwhile reply too much to ask?

If royalties are made there is a connection between purchasing this game and supporting the circus. It is quite irrelevant whether any of us went to a circus when we didn't know what was happening behind the scenes, or being taken there by our parents.

I don't sit on a lot of research on euthanasia rates from the US, but I know over here it has been between 19 and 30 or something. I live in Norway so the links would probably be irrelevant. Either way, this article in Seattle Times might be somewhat relevant: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004276339_euthanasia12m.html

About meat conspiracies and whatnot; bad choice of wording from my part. It is indeed quite irrelevant for this topic. But if you think having been alive for a long time (I can't help but wonder how old you actually are, but it doesn't matter) automatically proves all conspiracies that haven't been proved yet are false, then I'm afraid you're pretty wrong; most conspiracies that have ended up being true up through the ages have usually taken a century or more to be proven, and by then nobody cares anymore. It doesn't mean every conspiracy is true, but there is often at least a grain of truth in more than we would probably like to admit.

On the sanity of environmentalists; those who scream the loudest are the ones who are usually heard, and to scream out loud means a lot of people will hate you for it. If the sane environmentalists are those who go after the things that really matter, who won't throw paint at people wearing fur and calling people murderers for eating meat, then I know a lot of these people. But they don't end up on television because they can't be called nutjobs, and they won't scream the loudest because it's not their way of doing it.

On a side note, I find it funny that you compare contrasting world views with a Disney fantasy version of nature; do you mean that the reality you live in is the bleakest of the bleak, and there is no use in fighting for any ethical equality in the way we treat animals or nature? It might be pointless in the end, but out of experience you need contrast for progression; we have to be able to agree to disagree without calling the other person's opinions total bullocks. That is ignorant and childish at best.