Who has done more for vegitarianism - Peta or Disney?!
Who has done more for vegitarianism - Peta or Disney?
I bet if you ask 100 people who are anti-hunting when was the first time you became opposed to hunting, 99 would say, "I cried at the end of Bambi"
A friends kid who is four won't eat fish, because "fish are friends not food" granted he still eats chicken, beef etc. But he is four he has not made all the connections.
I know another little girl who gave up bacon because of Babe. When her mom told her bacon came from pigs. Mom has not clued her in that pork chops also come from pigs so she still eats those.
Still it seems Disney does a lot to make children sensitive to animals having feelings and being more than a meal.
And no omni can really refute Bambi, Babe or Finding Nimo.
Many non-vegitarians would cite PETA a reason not to be veggy.
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2 days ago
dntxknw - not a clue to your question.
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dntxknw - not a clue to your question. i agree, i mean PETA just throws horrific a=images in your face. disney is more gentle and they give you the animals POV....WALT DISNEY MUST'VE BEEN VEGAN!!! Right on In my honest opinon,Peta has done ALOT for the rights of animals.Peta has brought alot of awareness to the publics attention about animal cruelty especially in the fast food industry! i think peta Disney.
Might I add, in a strictly platonic way, that you're quite handsome.
From an answerer below: "film itself is not vegan"......how true! One of the ingredients in making film is from rendered animal parts. well Peta turned me veggie so I dont know what kind ur smoking. i agree whole heartedly. i have always wanted to be vegetarian/vegan. when i was about 5 years old my 15 year old sister told me where meat came from: cows.
and i wouldnt eat any meat. i think i knew why i understood not to eat all meat. it was because she said meat was from animals, not just one food like bacon, burger etc. now i am trying to become vegan and i joined peta. Although I love all the Disney movies and my mom says I cried when I saw Bambi as a little girl... for me it was the PETA videos that did it. I ate meat until a couple months ago even after seeing all the Disney movies. I guess they didn't have that effect on me... I wish they had!
After watching Meet your meat and the KFC video there was no turning back. Many of my friends don't want to see them nor do they want me to tell them what is so horrifying about them because they'd rather not know... ignorance is bliss. peta True dat. Depends on your upbringing. If meat eating for you is entrenched in tradition and you've got a mom that tells you "the bible says to abstain from those who tell you not to eat meat", then you need something more powerful than an anthropomorphic cartoon to make the connection.
What befuddles me as an inherent contradiction is parents who are outraged that peta hands out pamphlets to kids. They send their kids to public education, but they want their kids selectively educated. The truth is horrifying. The fact that it's horrifying doesn't make you exempt from learning it.
This is an example of parents wanting to maintain an unhealthy level of control over their kids. If the kids aren't exposed to the inner workings of a slaughter house, the parents can easily tell the kids to eat their meat. If kids learn the truth, they are more likely to stand up for their ethics and say emphatically "NO!"; the very ethics that the parents have helped to form. animals were put on this here Earth as food for man.
I'm just doing my job by eating them. i'd agree with that
i say disney gets to the younger audience, gets them feeling bad for animals and stuff.
then peta videos, and all that gets the teenagers and adults to really become veggies.
and why is there always some idiot who'll come here, answer like a whole stint of questions with things like 'were SUPPOSED to eat animals, and then just go away. how about you guys just skip the first two steps and go push your close-minded thoughts on other meatheads. it'd be a lot less hassle for us, and you wouldn't waste the little energy your getting from that cow. Interesting question. Not the usual fanatical crap that those who claim to know THE TRUTH usually post.
I tend to agree that Disney has inculturated a whole generation of young persons and perhaps adults, to sensitivity towards animals. And I think if not tons of converts to vegan and vegetarianism, they do make people more attentive to the humane treatment of animals.
I do think that the rising trend of lower meat consumption via the new rising popularity of Flexitarian Vegetarianism and Flexitarian Veganism is part of the Disney phenomenon and general concern about health without being some blind fanatic like most on the V&V forum.
And YES ... who could refute Bambi, Babe or Nimo?
As for PETA. What a disservice to their cause. Domestic terrorists. There are so many more worthwhile groups .... SPCA for the big one. And after I saw what PETA did post-Katrina to animals -- those hypocrites ought to be prosecuted. bambi was a dumb movie and i did not cry
babe sucked too...
but i liked finding nemo, i don't eat clown fish or blue tangs
i hate peta, they are a terrorist group that has killed more animals than they have tried to save...roughly 90% which is higher than most animal shelters
i just don't want to be a vegetarian, is there anything wrong with that? i don't think so, but i know that all of you would disagree
hmmm...i wonder how many thumbs down i will get this time???
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PETA RULES Agreed, starred, and had another fried chicken head. I think i can see the teardrops it cried when it was deep-fried alive. They are salty! I think they both help. Whatever it takes to convince others that eating meat is a horrible injustice to animals. Whoever is involved in spreading the message, congrats! To the answerer above who states, "Disney must've been vegan." Funny yes, but film itself is not vegan. Animal products are used in the making of film.
Before I became veg*an I just weighed the health benefits. It had little to do with the media. It had more to do with my desire to live.
So, with that said, I think 99% is a bit high.
But wonderful question and display of how media does work to instill these ideas in our culture.