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Animal rights are gay. It is nothing like the holocaust because nobody eats jews. Go fuck yourself you goddamn cocksucking hippies.

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+Animal rights are gay.  It is nothing like the holocaust because nobody eats jews.  Go fuck yourself you goddamn cocksucking hippies.
-[[Image:Holocaust plate.png|right|frame|[[PETA]] shows an image of children behind bars in a [[concentration camp]] next to a pen filled with pigs.]]
-Some writers and [[animal rights]] groups have drawn a comparison between the '''treatment of animals and the [[Holocaust]]'''. <ref>Patterson, Charles. ''Eternal Treblinka'', Lantern Books, 2002.</ref> The comparison is regarded as controversial, and has been criticized by organizations including the [[Anti-Defamation League]] (ADL) and the [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]]. <ref name=tolerance>Willoughby, Brian. [http://www.tolerance.org/news/article_hate.jsp?id=724 "PETA Turns Holocaust into Pig Pen"], ''Tolerance.org'', a webproject  of the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]], March 7, 2003, retrieved August 17,2006.</ref> The ADL has written that the increasing use of Holocaust imagery by animal rights activists is a "disturbing development." <ref name=ADL1>[http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/holocaust_imagery.asp "Holocaust Imagery and Animal Rights"], [[Anti-Defamation League]], August 2, 2005, retrieved August 17, 2006.</ref>
-[[Roberta Kalechofsky]] of [[Jews for Animal Rights]] argues that, although there is "connective tissue" between animal suffering and the Holocaust, they "fall into different historical frameworks, and comparison between them aborts the ... force of anti-Semitism. <ref name=RK>Kalechofsky, Roberta. ''Animal Suffering and the Holocaust: The Problem with Comparisons'', Micah Publications, 2003.</ref>
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-==Comparisons==
-Comparisons between the Holocaust and human's treatment of animals have been made by a number of people and groups.
-Jewish author [[Isaac Bashevis Singer]], who received the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1978]] and who was himself a vegetarian, made this comparison in several of his stories including ''Enemies, A Love Story,''
-''The Penitent,'' and ''The Letter Writer.''  In ''The Letter Writer'' the protaganist says: "In relation to [animals], all people are Nazis; for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka."
-<ref>
-Patterson, Charles (2002).
-''Eternal Treblinka'', Lantern Books, pp. 181-188.
-</ref>
-In ''The Penitent'' the protaganist says "when it comes to animals, every man is a Nazi."
-<ref>
-Singer, Isaac Bashevis (1983).  ''The Penitent'', Farrar, Straus, Giroux.
-p. 39.
-</ref>
-[[John Maxwell Coetzee|J.M. Coetzee]], who received the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[2003]], wrote:
-"... in the 20th century, a group of powerful and bloody-minded men in Germany hit on the idea of adapting the methods of the industrial stockyard, as pioneered and perfected in Chicago, to the slaughter - or what they preferred to call the processing - of human beings."
-<ref>
-J.M. Coetzee,
-[[http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/factory-farming-must-be-called-to--slaughterhouse/2007/02/21/1171733846249.html Exposing the beast: factory farming must be called to the slaughterhouse]],
-''The Sydney Morning Herald'',
-[[February 22]], [[2007]].  Retrieved on [[February 25]], [[2007]].
-</ref>
-The ADL lists a number of animal rights groups that have made the comparison. The magazine ''No Compromise'' introduced the [[Animal Liberation Front]] with the words: "If we are trespassing, so were the soldiers who broke down the gates of Hitler's death camps; If we are thieves, so were the members of the Underground Railroad who freed the slaves of the South; And if we are vandals, so were those who destroyed Forever the gas chambers of Buchenwald and Auschwitz." <ref name=ADL1/>
-In 2001, Meat.org included an "Animal Holocaust" section containing photographs of animals with captions such as "Holocaust Victim," and arguing that it's "easy to see the resemblance of the systematic destruction and slaughter of over six million Jews by the Nazis before and during World War II and the over 20 million animals that are executed every day in America alone. Many of the Jews of the Holocaust were transported to concentration camps in cattle cars to their death. The concentration camps very much resemble the common slaughterhouses of today." <ref name=ADL1/>
-The Consistency in Compassion Campaign (CCC), a project of the Northwest Animal Rights Network of [[Seattle, Washington]], argues that "the Holocaust stands for much more than the one event. It represents a place and time when supremacist thinking was so embedded in a culture that they were blind or apathetic to the evil that existed in their everyday world. This kind of thinking is not exclusive to just that time and place. The great blind spot of our country and Western Civilization for that matter is the mistreatment and disregard for non-human animals in nearly every capacity." <ref name=ADL1/>
-===People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals===
-[[Ingrid Newkirk]], the president of [[People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals]] (PETA), has herself made the comparison unambiguously, saying: "Six million Jews died in [[concentration camp]]s, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses." <ref name=Shafran>Shafran, Avi. [http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/25916/format/html/displaystory.html "This time PETA's guilty of missing the point"], ''[[j.]]'', May 20, 2005.</ref>
-PETA has twiced used Holocaust imagery in its campaigns. In July 2003, a PETA television public service announcement called "They came for us at night," aired on U.S. cable networks and in [[Warsaw]], [[Poland]], <ref name=ADL1/> narrated by a man with an accent describing what it felt like to be transported without food or water. <ref>[http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=holocaust_ad&Player=wm&speed=_med "They came for us at night"], PETAtv.com, retrieved August 17, 2006.</ref>
-In the same year, PETA's "Holocaust on your Plate" exhibition consisted of eight 60-square-foot panels, each juxtaposing images of the Holocaust with images of [[factory farming|factory-farmed animals]]. Photographs of concentration camp inmates were displayed next to photographs of battery chickens, and piled bodies of Holocaust victims next to a pile of pig carcasses. Captions alleged that "like the Jews murdered in [[concentration camp]]s, animals are terrorized when they are housed in huge filthy warehouses and rounded up for shipment to slaughter. The leather sofa and handbag are the moral equivalent of the lampshades made from the skins of people killed in the [[Extermination camps in the Holocaust|death camps]]." <ref name=SmithHolocaust>Smith, Wesley J. [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/12/21/INGH63PBJ81.DTL "PETA to cannibals: Don't let them eat steak"], ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'', December 21, 2003.</ref>
-The exhibition was funded by an anonymous Jewish [[Philanthropy|philanthropist]], <ref name=Teather>Teather, David. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/animalrights/story/0,11917,906289,00.html "'Holocaust on a plate' angers US Jews"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', March 3, 2003.</ref> and created by Matt Prescott, who lost several relatives in the Holocaust. Prescott said: "The very same mindset that made the Holocaust possible - that we can do anything we want to those we decide are 'different or inferior' - is what allows us to commit atrocities against animals every single day. ... The fact is, all animals feel pain, fear and loneliness. We're asking people to recognize that what Jews and others went through in the Holocaust is what animals go through every day in factory farms." <ref name=Teather/> [[Abraham Foxman]], chairman of the ADL, said the exhibition, was "outrageous, offensive and takes [[chutzpah]] to new heights ... The effort by Peta to compare the deliberate systematic murder of millions of Jews to the issue of animal rights is abhorrent." <ref name=Teather/> Stuart Bender, legal counsel for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, wrote to PETA asking them to "cease and desist this reprehensible misuse of Holocaust materials." <ref name=tolerance/>
-In 2005, [[Ingrid Newkirk]] apologized for the pain the campaign had caused some people, writing <blockquote>I was bowled over by the negative reception by many in the Jewish community. It was both unintended and unexpected. The PETA staff who proposed that we do it were Jewish, and the patronage for the entire endeavor was Jewish. We were careful to use Jewish authors and scholars and quotes from Holocaust victims and survivors ... We believe that we humans can and should use our distinctive capacities to reduce suffering in the world ... Our mission is a profoundly human one at its heart, yet we know that we have caused pain. This was never our intention, and we are deeply sorry.<ref>[[Ingrid Newkirk|Newkirk, Ingrid]]. [http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/5475.htm "Apology for a tasteless comparison"], Israelinsider, May 5, 2005.</ref><ref name=ADL2>Anti-Defamation League Press Release, [http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/holocaust_imagery.asp "Holocaust Imagery and Animal Rights"], ADL Website, August 2, 2005, retrieved August 17, 2006.</ref></blockquote>
-==See also==
-*[[Animal rights and anti-Semitism]]
-==Notes==
-<references/>
-[[Category:Holocaust studies]]
-[[Category:Animal rights]]