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

paulsby

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Fri Jan-29-10 04:52 AM
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Punxsutawney PETA: Animal Rights Organization Wants Town To Use Robotic Groundhog

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

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Fri Jan-29-10 04:56 AM
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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.

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Lasher

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Fri Jan-29-10 05:34 AM
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2. Automation.

Edited on Fri Jan-29-10 05:35 AM by Lasher

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

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Sherman A1

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Fri Jan-29-10 05:37 AM
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3. Precisely

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

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Monk06

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Fri Jan-29-10 06:10 AM
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4. Time for Phil to organize

www.seiu.org

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Bonn1997

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Fri Jan-29-10 06:13 AM
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5. The article doesn't have one quote from PETA. It's poor journalism.

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dems_rightnow

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Fri Jan-29-10 06:26 AM
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6. This should make you happy then

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

It's from PETA's website.

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tularetom

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Fri Jan-29-10 07:47 AM
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10. Doesn't have a quote from Punxsatawney Phil either

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

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MichellesBFF

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Fri Jan-29-10 06:52 AM
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7. I wish they'd fire him too!

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

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SpiralHawk

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Fri Jan-29-10 06:52 AM
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8. "We demand they use a Robot Sun, too." - Sun Worshipers

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Coyote_Bandit

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Fri Jan-29-10 07:45 AM
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9. PETA?

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

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Gman

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Fri Jan-29-10 08:01 AM
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11. Somebody tell them to STFU

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

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Homer Wells

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Fri Jan-29-10 08:53 AM
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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:

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