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From: Rob Turk <rturk@austin.ibm.com>
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To: eats@peta.org
Cc: alt.animals@austin.ibm.com, alt.motherjones@austin.ibm.com
Subject: use of animals for survival
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 16:47:06 -0500

Hello Animal-Industry Stooge,


I think that your sublimation of the PeTA.org domain name is a flagrant
copyright and/or patent violation that gives the Internet a bad name.
It shouldn't be so difficult for an organization to reclaim the use of
its name or acronym from someone who has misappropriated said name.  I
hope that you not only are forced to cease and desist, but also that you
receive a punitive compensatory damages conviction.  If everyone went
around with domain names that belonged to other people or other
institutions, the resulting confusion about naming and "authenticated
text" would keep many people from participating in the Internet.  This
would be infinitely worse than for your sophmorical satire to have to
have an address that doesn't confuse people seeking information on the
PETA organization.

Also, I find it ironic that people who insist on eating meat, wearing
fur, testing products on animals, or whatever never stop to consider the
inevitable outcome of mass-consumption of meat on the World's economies.
For every pound of meat to reach a person's mouth there has been such a
burden on the Earth's resources (1,000 lbs wheat/ 1,000 gals of water or
whatever) that a person who eats meat and walks a mile actually consumes
more of the Earth's resources than a person who has not eaten meat to
DRIVE a CAR the same distance!  Of course, you may not be concerned
about who can afford to eat what, because you have your next burger
available at the nearest drive-in burger joint.

Unfortunately, the difference in the real-world value of meat and what
consumers actually pay for it is swallowed up by the U.S. Gov't in the
form of land grants, water subsidies, corn and grains subsidies, and
additional benefits to agribusiness (which don't do crap to keep family
farms operating!) which keeps getting added to our National debt.  The
real-world cost of a pound of meat?  Considering the land, water,
grains, handling, packaging, and transport of meat it should cost about
$34 a pound, rather than $4 a pound.  Where does that $30 go?  Well, it
either disappears as quickly as the Oglalla Aquifer as subsidies or it
can begin to be paid for by the agribusiness interests that continue to
make money hand over fist by America's meat-habit.

So what are you doing about it?  Aren't you just another cog in the
vastly corrupt and decrepit Meat Industry machine that churns out pound
after pound of abused animal flesh to be gobbled up by those who haven't
asked themselves "Where's this burger come from, and who's paying for
it?", aren't you just a toadie for these mega-corporations who are
robbing people blind (Like RJR-Nabisco) with unhealthy diets and
chemically-saturated cigarettes, burgers, and leather handbags?  And why
is it that your "People Eating Tasty Animals" makes no mention of the
true obscenity involved here...not that PETA wants to protect animals
and treat them humanely (not humanly) but that these corporations are
making billions of dollars while depleting the environment, poisoning
their customers, brainwashing children with "4 basic food groups" lies,
and getting unsuspecting neophytes such as yourself to do all their
dirty work for them?

Finally, you may have the RIGHT to do this, but you should be
RESPONSIBLE enough to turn over the domain name to PETA and do some
serious thinking about WHY people are programmed to eat meat, abuse one
another, and make the erroneous conclusion that Humans are somehow
"better" than everything else in the world! (rather than simply Good
Citizens in the global biosphere!)

It's making some people very rich.  Not you.  Not me.  Who?

-- 
Rob Turk <mailto:rturk@megalith.com>
If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are
headed.