PETA Goes After Britney Spears
Really, PETA....Britney Spears???
Sometimes I feel like they're really grasping at straws to find a way to pick on the most famous person they can think of in order to get more publicity. This time Britney is being taken to task for her use of elephants in her new Circus video.
A PETA member posts on the organizations' official blog,
Sadly, I still remember the first time I heard Britney Spears' "Baby One More Time." I was in the eighth grade and TRL
was still wildly cool. My skinny, stirrup-tights-wearing, headgear
sportin' 13 year-old self just couldn't get enough of the song. I
remember thinking we had found a true pop princess.But man, how quickly America's sweetheart fell from grace. And it wasn't pretty.
Now, at the bottom of the barrel, she's sporting elephants dressed in circus attire for her new video titled—what else—"Circus."
As Britney is such a victim of the paparazzi and always complaining
and crying about how she hates to be held up in her guarded house and
can't feel free, she of all people should be able to relate to the
horror that captive animals go through when they're used for
entertainment. Except Britney chooses to perform, and the
lifestyle just comes with it. Animals are ripped away from their
mothers at a young age, kept in chains, and prodded with electric shock devices to make them perform. That doesn't sound so voluntary to me.Britney is now just an "outrageous" and "toxic" mess. I certainly
don't want her to "gimme more," and neither do the animals who have
been abused so that she can feel "lucky."Well, we're not takin' this sitting down. We've got a killer action
alert ready for those of you who want to fight with us and tell Brit to
stop using animals in her acts, once and for all. Click here to take action today.I must confess that I still believe she can turn herself around.
stupid.
Wow - what a loser to be wearing stirrups in the late 90s. They went out with the 80's! No wonder this person works for PETA.
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I was about to say the same thing! I wore stirrups when I was 13, but that was back in 1984, not 1998!!
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lol, me too. was it really 84? god, i said 87 in my comment earlier...just guessing though (i have to rely on a 35 year old mind) haha
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PETA can kiss my a$$! They really should mind their own business! We don't need to ask their permission for anything! Who do they think they ARE,anyway?The policeman of the world?
These freakos even object to seeing-eye dogs, drug and bomb-sniffing dogs, zoos, circuses,or animals helping people in ANY capacity.
This is also interesting:
www.petakillsanimals.com
PETA SUCKS!
WEAR FUR!
EAT MEAT!
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See this is why I hate PETA, they have to make their points in such a way that people don't even care about the message just the way it was delivered.
Animals that are on tv and movies are treated like crap for the most part, chimps are taken away when they're babies and then used for a few years and discarded like trash. Remember the monkey on Seinfield? That monkey was shot to death a few years later. I agree that stuff like that is wrong but if anything PETA is hurting their cause by responding in such an ignorant way. It's sad they could do so much more if they could just be less childish in their statements.
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Shut up, PETA!
f*&ck off, PETA!
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thank you PETA for helping Britney sell even more albums!!!
xox
PETA seriously needs to get a life. They are so pathetic. Good cause? Yes. But they are so pathetic the way they attack celebrities. Its so catty and stupid.
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PETA is way too aggressive and comparable to any other garden-variety urban terrorist. You know, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar. They are only hurting their cause more by being so bossy and in-your-face aggressive.It just turns people off and makes them look like imbeciles.
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are you kidding? kaykay said it perfectly in my eyes.
XoXo
<3 Mama Mo
The person at PETA who wrote the blurb is trying to sound younger than they actually are. Stirrup pants and head gear were not around when Britney was on the radio.
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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. I was coming in here to say the exact same thing. Stirrup pants haven't been popular since i was a freshman in high school...that was 1987!!!! i think maybe britney was on the mickey mouse club still. If someone feels the need to lie they need to do it right and check the facts
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I remember wearing stirrup pants when I was like in grade 9 or something, way back in 1982.....ahhhhh...the memories! :) also: anyone else out there "old" enough to remember leg-warmers? neon clothing? big chunky earrings(and feather earrings),"big' hair, and ankle boots?
...and Duran Duran, Culture Club, Devo, Men at Work, Frankie goes to Hollywood,Psychedelic Furs,etc....
This is why PETA is nothing but a big joke. While dog fighting continues, hundreds of thousands of animals are homeless, whales, tigers and numerous other threatened animals are hunted for profit and puppy mills are still all too abundant........they spend their time doing NOTHING but trying to garner publicity for attacking the most popular celebrities over mundane issues. I am animal lover to the bitter end and would NEVER, under any circumstances, support a profiteering corporation like PETA.
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well said!
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PETA = JOKE.
Well congratulations to PETA. Only those extremist terrorists could make me a Brittany fan. PETA is a bunch of lunitics. I’ll give you two quick examples.
1. PETA’s president has said that “even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we would be against it.”
2. In a 2003 profile of Newkirk in The New Yorker, author Michael Specter wrote that Newkirk has had at least one seeing-eye dog taken away from its blind owner.
To find out more go to http://consumerfreedom.com/article_detail.cfm/article/134
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I am all for fair treatment of animals, no abuse etc but I highly doubt she didn't follow the strict animal laws that apply to things like this.
They really are grasping for any kind of publicity. Why is it always cute little females? What about men?
SHUT UP PETA....THEY ARE SO STUPID!!!
Eat a dick PETA, bla bla, rabble rabble, I'm a moron, etc.
!!!111!111!one!!!!oneone!!!!11!
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For the record, ranting about PETA being "terrorists" on the internet is as passé and retarded as PETA's celebrity attacks.
GAS THE HUMANS.
I'm done.
Duhh.. it's an overstatement and exaggeration from PETA (SERIOUSLY)
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