I was almost done with internetting for tonight, and then I saw one of the most disturbing videos I've ever seen. I unwittingly opened a myspace bulletin to see a video of a raccoon being skinned alive. After a quick search I found the video posted on PETA's site. I fucking hate PETA but I also hate animal torture, so I guess it's a toss up.
At first I thought it was just a video of a raccoon being beaten to death which I actually don't have a big problem with since a lot of people consider them to be pesky animals and probably poison them like rats anyway. At least a quick blow or two to the head is a less painful death. Actually it was just beaten slightly, then hung upside down and skinned while still struggling the entire time. There can't be any point to that. It has to be harder to skin an animal while it's struggling then to kill it and deal with a dead body. It's probably just some slimy PETA scare tactic. They most likely paid some farmer 20 dollars to do it so they could show it to Americans to horrify them. It makes no sense for that guy to not kill the animal before skinning it, therefore I don't believe it.
I wouldn't recommend watching it, at least not if you plan on eating in the next hour or two, but it's linked from PETA's site if you want to see it. "Inside Chinese Fur Farms". It made me feel a lot more nauseous than two girls and one cup.
Ok now I'm done internetting.
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1 comment:
i saw I Am An Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA on HBO a couple months ago and it was disappointingly tame. i was expecting the PETA people to be completely insane, but they weren't. they showed some writhing skinned animals in that documentary as well. delicious murder!
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