"PETA targets Games Workshop" Topic

I kid you not.

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Interesting that wearing animal furs cause concern but wearing human skulls does not… excellent prioritization o.0

Silly sods

Dear PETA:

It's not real fur. Honest.

Is it ok to wear naga hide, If the naga died.

I was sure the link would take me to the Onion. Nope. It's serious.
Well, they're serious. Not that I have to take THEM seriously.

So your Warhammer or Warhammer 40K band of marauders can sack, pillage, plunder all they like. All those motives are not in question. As long as they are not clothed in anything that resembles fur?

I have always been an animal lover, but this is way too funny!

I'm with PETA. As in:

People
Eating
Tasty
Animals

PETA, Good eatin, free range, acorn fed and slaughter humanely. Best tastin meat ever. Could this be the future?

How can this group have any one take them seriously after this? What a load of dung!

Gosh. Hope they don't find out about these guys:

How can this group have any one take them seriously after this?

they were taken seriously before?

I thought it was a joke, but apparently it is true.

comsicbank – No. It is not OK to wear Naga hide. Naga have feelings too.

I love animals and have adjusted my diet to try to eat only ethically raised meat products…but wow this is silly.

The odd familiarity with 40k-stuff that the letter shows, with the cut-and-paste PETA blurb about furs, and the weirdly formatted and low resolution margin matter kinda make me think it's fake and has been uploaded to the site somehow. But it's right there on the main page, so that seems unlikely.

I've never cared for PETA as an organization, more because of their emphasis on the negative. Groups like Best Friends show you the good they do with their money (an animal rescue in Utah), but groups like PETA mail out ultraviolent pictures of suffering creatures and then say "Without your money this happens…and it probably happens even with your money, but send anyway."

This fellow has feelings too!

Absolute nutjobs.

I guess they feel that the Humane Society has all the legitimate animal cruelty concerns covered, freeing PETA up to around with the likes of this.

And I thought the chocolate covered ant thing was stupid. This goes WAY beyond that.

Never had any love for PETA.

I used to live in the PETA homeland (Norfolk, VA). They had pushed for local laws that required me to psychologically torture and tease my dog.

It sure is Monday! This is the second news article about weirdo humans related to fur that I have read this morning.

The first was about a group of men who had parties where they dressed up as animals (Furries) and had sex with children. A victim came forward to police and the info given lead to the arrest of a child abuse ring in eastern Pennsylvania.

Now this one about people who object to pewter "fur." I'm really hoping that no Pewters were harmed in the making of these figs.

St. Paddy's day is coming up in about a month and a half. Better get your fake green beards while you still can. I weep like a snowflake for my children's future.

etotheipi--What?!

Pathetic humans

Yikes! I mean, I don't like killing animals for fur, but, get a grip! It's a game. They are little metal men. Man, some people. They need to focus on REAL animals, with REAL fur, in REAL danger.

It's worth noting that many animal advocacy groups refuse to work with PETA.

I don't like killing animals for fur, but, get a grip!

Which is why it completely delegitimizes what is basically a reasonable stance with a demand so stupid most sane folk have trouble believing its not a joke.

It's worth noting that many animal advocacy groups refuse to work with PETA.

Yes. Legitimacy.

In the grim future or war…there is only Pleather.

I believe part of the issue with other groups is that PETA does not, as policy/doctrine, return rescued animals to no-kill shelters or rescue organizations, like many other groups do.

This dimwittery from PETA doesn't surprise me in the least. I still remember the time they demanded that the Green Bay Packers American Football team change their name, which they chose because their first sponsor back in the day was a meatpacking plant. PETA suggested alternates such as 'The Green Bay Pickers' (a reference to the farm workers around the Green Bay area) or 'The Green Bay Six-Packers' (a snooty reference to PETA's opinion of Green Bay's fans.)

PETLPFA. People for Ethical Treatment of Little Plastic Fictional Animals.

They've stopped taking comments. Clearly they've realised they're just setting themselves up for ridicule.

Stupid posturing when they could do with pushing against real life stuff like Veal. Farmed fur. Liver pate. Chinese "medicine".

Much easier to say we've written a letter to a company of Nerds than to go and protest at the Chinese or French embassy.

@ wachaza. If you are thinking about crate- reared veal, then right with you; keeping an animal in restricted space and on a restricted diet has to be be considered cruel by most peoples' standards. Some British dairy farmers are raising veal calves in a more humane way, I believe the meat produced is called " rose veal". Like most people I drink milk, eat cheese, yoghurt etc, so have to accept that the dairy industry will profuce some male calves which will be of no use in milk production. Raising these calves in a relatively humane way to provide food is, I believe, better than slaughtering them at birth.
Liver pate is not always produced by cruel methods, although the notorious " foie gras" definitely is. My wife used to make an eccellent chicken liver pate , using livers from chickens slaughtered for food.
As for PETA's stance against fur, I am fully supportive of it, but this latest protest is simply ridiculous, but sadly typical of many of similar ilk

You may see a PETA puke squirt ink on some old ladies fur, but you'll never see one in a biker bar doing the same to their leather gear.

etotheipi--What?!

Local laws in Norfolk, VA require a dog house and require the dog to be indoors basically if it is snowing (it's more wordy and complex than that, but that's the gist).

That's great. But I had a Malamute.

He wouldn't go near the doghouse in the backyard because it was a small enclosure, like his cage. He hated the cage (which was only used in grave necessity to transport him to the vet – otherwise he sprawled across the back seat of the car on my son's lap with a seat belt on). An he hated the doghouse. Literally would not go on that side of the back yard. We moved it to the other side, he wouldn't go to that side. Mind you, he had never been "incarcerated" in the doghouse – it had an open front. He just didn't like it.

Likewise, in the terrible Norfolk blizzards – a couple inches of snow a year, he loved to stay outside, which was illegal. Makes sense you shouldn't be allowed to chain a Chihuahua outdoors in the snow. This was a Malamute who didn't want to come in from the back yard when I stood there with the door open calling him. I think he wanted us to come outside and sleep with him. But I was legally obliged to physically drag him indoors against his will.

No problem (well legally and according to PETA) with leaving him out in July, when he only went out to take care of his business or get his shortened daily walkies.

Clearly they've realised they're just setting themselves up for ridicule.

Are you taking bets on that? ;)

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I do understand that there is a principle here. If they were against, say an anime advocating torturing animals (however they define that), even if no real animals were hurt, there is a point.

But anyone who plays 40K knows Space Marines are not the "good guys" to emulate. Heck, anyone who plays 40K knows there are no "good guys" in the game.

I had a dog up until last year…Bernese Mountain and Sheppard mix. He hated to come inside in the winter. He would make his nest in the snow and be perfectly happy. He also loved the rain…would do everything in his power to get outside once he knew it was raining…

Does this mean we now have to shave all of our Skaven…?

Since the homepage has disappeared, anyone remember what board the other PETA thread was on?

Morbid curiosity.

I'm surprised they stopped at just GW, I mean there's centuries of potential fur abuse out there for them to concern themselves over. Everything from Roman signifers wolfskins to Napoleonic French Grenadiers busbys. They'd have us filing the busbys down until they're smooth tubes and then paint them white to look like chef's hats if they could.

Games Workshop or PETA -- which of the two stirs greater emotions?

If I ran GW I wouldn't even dignify it with a response!

"Send them the off letter."

Suitably stamped with:

or the more threatening:

I guess the next step will be to demand that the National Gallery burn all portraits of monarchs wearing furs.

I'm surprised they stopped at just GW,

For this type of tactic, you have to target a strawman as a representative of the industry. Once you get action against one, it becomes action against the all. Especially if you get a court ruling.

Your target has to be recognizable to the public. The fact that most of the public who recognizes GW recognizes it as this weird, lame thing socially awkward people do is to their advantage. You don't want people to identify with the target, you just want recognition.

Selecting other manufacturers wouldn't gain the recognition impact.

GW is also a good target because their figures (or enough of them) tend to exude meanness and violence, a controversial aspect of the hobby.

Space Marines also inhabit a fictional universe, which adds to the weirdness and alienation from the public as well as breaks the link from real world issues. Attacking a miniature representation (or a portrait!) of Davy Crockett wearing fur is not the same thing. People can empathize with him wearing furs or at least put it in a historical context that divorces the image from justification of the behaviour. It's just the way it was then.

It is very important to pick a representative target that people can't relate to.

If I were at the studio, I'd be sculpting a Space Wolf Commander holding the carcass of a dead wolf in the air with one hand and ripping off it's skin with the other.

Then, I'd sell them as a limited edition model and make it clear that NONE of the proceeds are going to any animal charity.

Does this mean we now have to shave all of our Skaven…?

No that is a platform item for PETAA – People for the Ethical Treatment of Anthropomorphic Animals … I think just now I have a new terrorist organization to fight the Space Patrol.

On a related note, does PETA protest at furry conventions?

Then, I'd sell them as a limited edition model and make it clear that NONE of the proceeds are going to any animal charity.

Actually, I like a lot of animal charities and support a few. The problem is that the big ones that attract the most attention (PETA, ASPCA at the top of the list) tend to have bad or counterproductive policies IMHO. All the more reason to support the local small organizations that are actually doing good works!

In the grim future or war…there is only Pleather.

PETA in cahoots with big pleather industry confirmed? :D

Actually, I like a lot of animal charities and support a few. The problem is that the big ones that attract the most attention (PETA, ASPCA at the top of the list) tend to have bad or counterproductive policies IMHO. All the more reason to support the local small organizations that are actually doing good works!

Plus with something local, you can actually swing by and see what they are doing.

A lot of local no-kill shelters are doing great work and they need more support.

Y'know, if PETA wanted to do real damage to Games Workshop, they'd only have to set up their protestor cages containing naked women (something they are known for) outside of GW shops. One long look into those, and GW's targeted teen market will lose all interest in games and minis*… ;-)

* This would also be the perfect time to wait outside GW stores with a big bag to collect the piles of discarded toys… ;-)

I've never wanted to buy some 40K miniatures to spite PETA so much in my life.

And etotheipi, there's a furry convention in Pittsburgh, PA every year. Never seen any PETA protest at them ever.

" there's a furry convention in Pittsburgh, PA every year."

Glad I don't have the drycleaner concession on that gig!

So now we have crime think. History must be changed. Cave men may now never be depicted with animal skins. All evidence that they wore such things must be burnt and any human with such knowledge must be eliminated!

Ps surely no such person enacting such a crime would be punishable for crimes against humanity as it was for the higher gain of the furry animals and their supporters.

So now we have crime think.

We've had that for a while.