X-Message-Number: 20131 Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:02:08 -0700 From: James Swayze <> Subject: [Off topic] Oh this is responsible! Well sort of off topic but in some ways not. PETA would oppose Cryonics if only for the needed experiments that irritate their pet peeve. This article just goes to show how irresponsible this bunch of loonies can be. Keep this in our argument arsenal if we're ever confronted for experiments. WHO Is Targeting Top 10 Party Colleges? By Cathryn Conroy, Netscape News Editor Got beer? That's the question PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is asking in a paid advertisement in newspapers on the campuses of the nation's top 10 party colleges. The spoof of the dairy industry's "Got Milk?" campaign is an attempt to show college students that drinking milk is the equivalent of animal abuse. The quarter-page ads urge students to drink beer instead of milk. Been on a college campus lately? You won't believe who is drinking and how much is being consumed! Click to find out. http://www.time.com/time/2002/wdrinking/ "College students care about cruelty to animals, and they need to know if they're consuming dairy products, they're promoting animal abuse and harming their own health," Bruce Friedrich, director of vegan outreach for the Norfolk, Virginia.-based organization, told The Associated Press. And that has Mothers Against Drunk Driving and nutrition groups in an uproar, charging PETA with irresponsibility. "It's absolutely ridiculous. It's an irresponsible, recycled publicity stunt that literally puts cows before kids. It's appalling," Wendy Hamilton, president of MADD, told AP. The top 10 party colleges, as identified by the Princeton Review in August, are (in order) Indiana University, Clemson University, the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Florida, State University of New York-Buffalo, the University of New Hampshire, the University of Colorado-Boulder, Florida State University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Meanwhile, a study by Texas A&M University's Center for Alcohol and Drug Education Studies shows that even a small amount of alcohol--one or two beers--can seriously affect judgment and driving decisions. Ready to be shocked? Click here to find the annual cost of any four-year college or university in the United States. http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/collegecost/collegecost.html [end quote] Maybe a stunt like this will keep rational people from joining this loony bin. James -- Cryonics Institute of Michigan Member! The Immortalist Society Member! The Society for Venturism Member! MY WEBSITE: http://www.geocities.com/~davidpascal/swayze/ While there follow the links to photos of me and some of my artwork and a radio interview on Dr. J's ChangeSurfer Radio program with me and the father of cryonics Prof. Robert Ettinger, author of "The Prospect of Immortality". A RELIGION I actually recommend: http://uk.geocities.com/venturist2001/index.html A FAVORITE quote: Last lines of the first Star Trek the Next Generation movie. Capt. Picard: "What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived, after all Number One, we're only mortal." Will Ryker: "Speak for yourself captain, I intend to live forever!" Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20131