im sorry but this made me LOL big time

Ha, that's funny. I thought for a minute this was another April Fools joke.

PETA's going to get it handed to them...

It'd be funny if WoW players all showed up and killed off all the PETA characters, then kill off all the seals, then steal the boats :-)

Haha, oh man. It's so wrong to laugh, but +1! I agree with their cause but this idea is a bit out there.

non-pvp server means the whole thing is going to be pretty boring... though if they'd have tried it on a pvp server the peta gang would have gotten their asses handed to them so I guess the non-pvp thing was a 'strategic' decision.

if it had been a pvp server then I think that's exactly what would have happened... so they chose to go to a server where they could stand around and do nothing but at least they wouldn't be getting ganked every 30 seconds.

sorry for the double... thought the first one got lost.

PETA = People for the Eating of Tasty Animals (sarcasm intended)

LOL PETA has always, and from the looks of it always will be, Crazy in the way they go about their agenda. I don't care if you agree with them or not (I don't for the most part) you have to agree that PETA is pretty much only good for the lolz.

The funniest thing is that many people don't understand that if you don't manage the seal population, they're all going to die from hunger... about WoW, cmon, it's a g-a-m-e!

I have absolutely no knowledge about WoW, but I would love to see a mass seal extinction. Hell, invade early and club seals from here to Saturday.

PETA isn't known for the brightest and best marketing ideas. They are well known for really stupid off the wall stuff though. PETA groups have been known to be so staunch in their protection of animals, that they have willingly caused harm to humans in the process.

I'm all for protecting seals (especially baby ones), but WoW is probably not the best advertising location.

Isn't PETA one of those terrorist organizations???

Wow, I lucked out big time. I have a character on that server. Oh it's on now... Saturday + Fraps = YouTube video of in game special event spectacular happy fun time!

It's seal clubbin' time, buddy.

*throws on sunglasses*

April fools!!! Wait......this is real?

Heh - If the PETA folks want to make a statement, how about heading down to Daytona Bike Week and tossing paint on all the people wandering around wearing "Animal Skins". Then follow the PETA folks around with cameras, put the results on Pay Per View TV, and donate the proceeds to charity.

I'd pay to see that

I think they should stick to showing attractive women naked because they refuse to wear fur. That actually gets my attention.

PETA's animal shelter has a lower adoption rate than any other major animal shelter in the country. That means that PETA kills more animals than anyone. I can't see how that is ethical treatment of animals.

If I still played WoW, I would just sit where they are planning to do this and kill all the seals as the spawn. Stupid terrorist hiding behind an ideological agenda.

You know seals would try to slaughter humans if evolution gave them opposable thumbs.

PETA takes in an enormous amount of animals that have been abused or neglected, far more than any other shelter. On top of that they have RIDICULOUS requirements for adopting the animals. I have a huge back yard that is safe and fun to play with and two other happy and healthy animals but was turned out TWICE when I tried to adopt an animal from a shelter. I ended up buying one from a local breeder instead of helping out a homeless one because I wasn't ALLOWED to help out a homeless one. It is insanity.

PETA: always good for a lol.

You'd think that, for all the attention-getting campaigns they can come up with, they'd actually be making some real progress. Unfortunately their campaigns, their internal hypocrisy, and what I suspect to be their batshit-loopy higher-ups give lie to the old saying about "there's no such thing as bad publicity."

There has always been some PETA in WoW:

D.E.H.T.A (Druids for the Ethical and Humane Treatment of Animals) is an organization created in direct opposition to master hunter Hemet Nesingwary (just for the record, yes there is yet another Hemet Nesingwary.. in STV, Nagrand and now in Northrend, soon we won't have any more animals in Azeroth but well well). They are opposed to what is essentially the decimation of the wildlife caused by Nesingwary and his hunters, and they also give players the chance to battle Hemet's hunters.

They give ironic quests to collect hunter ears. They ask you to play tricks on hunters, springing baby elephants from traps, and feeding four-legged friends. Their quest line ends in a mounted chase: with you riding down a boss character atop a woolly mammoth, complete with charge, and elephantine roar abilities.

I forgot the above mentioned quest lines completes the D.E.H.T.A's Little P.I.T.A achievement

I'm no tree-hugger, but I think that's a lousy excuse to beat something to death with a club. It's an even lamer reason than "If I club this infant seal, make a fluffy coat and give it to a woman she will sleep with me."

BBQ'd, Baby, Seals and plenty cold Budwiser. Know thats a party on the patio. PETA, god I hate those douches.

With it being a non-pvp server, I think what's going to happen is people will show up and slaughter the little seals.

Even more so, PETA just offended most of the Horde players.

I, and pretty much anyone I've ever talked to, have never quite grasped the full extent of the lunacy that is behind PETA.

If someone told me that in order to become an official member you had to spend most of your days high and completely out of your mind it would sound more plausible than most of the utterly insane plans they come up with. Some of the garbage they spew is so unflinchingly stupid that it nullifies any traction they could possibly gain with the very few reasonable goals they do have.

The things they do are far more funny if I try to ignore that there are real people who are members of this organization. Believing in what they do and supporting these actions. It is both sad and scary that someone is that out of touch with reality, let alone an organization full of them.

I always love the efficiency argument that grasslands used for grazing only give you 10% of the energy return from the animals raised vs. the raw grass itself. The only minor problem being that humans don't eat grass, and without MAJOR genetic tinkering never will. You were born an omnivore and will die as one, there are few ways around this that are healthy in the long term.

How about this "excuse" then, if the seal population isnt kept in control they decimate the fish population, and crowd out any other living thing in the area.

I always love how they show baby seals with big black eyes whenever seal hunting is brought up but never tell anyone that hunting the baby / young seals is completely against the law. Why dont they show the big fat black honking things that are actually killed during the hunt, but that wouldnt fit into PETAs little agenda very well now would it.

wow, i don't play WoW, but, this would be worth it to be there and club baby seals in front of PETA, lol

Examples entail:

PETA has asked that Spearfish High School in Spearfish, South Dakota change its name to “Sea Kitten High School.” A PETA spokesman says its part of a new campaign aimed at kids, theorizing that the “kinder, gentler name of sea kitten will help them see fish as individuals that do have friendships, resulting in fewer fish being killed for food or sport.”

Or

Comments made by PETA about CoD
"Not since we were pitted against Nazi attack dogs when we first escaped from 17 years ago have we seen such barbaric treatment of dogs in video games as we did in Call of Duty, World at War.

With a little Nintendogs influence, perhaps the next Call of Duty game will have you unlock achievements for petting the dogs you encounter and going on walks or playing Frisbee with them."

Then there was the effort they made to try to get Ben & Jerry's to make ice cream only from human breast milk...


In regards to the comment on how they handle pet adoption...they don't.

"According to a just released report by the Center for Consumer Freedom, the folks who tell us that meat is murder, suggest breast milk for our ice cream and target schoolchildren with their anti-circus campaign, killed 95% of the adoptable pets – for an average of 5.8 pets per day – at their Norfolk, Virginia headquarters in 2008.

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services reported that 2,124 dogs and cats were destroyed last year compared to seven (seven!) that were placed in adoptive homes.

Since 1998, the numbers of pets that have died at the hands of these kind, compassionate animal lovers totals more than 21,000.

Despite a $32 million annual budget, PETA does not operate a single adoption center, nor is there a departmental arm that seeks to find homes for the thousands of pets they murder each year.

I’m guessing naked B-list celebrities, anti-Thanksgiving cartoons and chicken suits for the KFC protests aren’t as cheap as they once were.

Last year, the Center for Consumer Freedom petitioned Virginia’s State Veterinarian to reclassify the PETA Headquarters as a slaughterhouse."

Did seals murder your family or something?

If they decimate the fish population, don't they starve and their numbers decrease thereby allowing the fish numbers to naturally increase?- balance of nature 101.

People want the seal skins and the fish. People are the greedy ones not the 'big fat honking seals'.

Again, not a tree-hugger. I'm fine with hunting, but I don't see much sport in walking up to an animal and smacking it with a club just because you don't want to mess up it's fur because you want to make your lady friend a coat that will get you a bj.

Iron.

Currently to my knowledge no one in my family nor my wife's family owns anything made of real fur. In fact I haven't seen a person wearing real fur in the cities for years now.

While I'd never suggest that the market is completely dead it certainly isn't at the point where anyone rational would expect to somehow impress a women into having sex with you by giving them a fur item. Of course...you might be surrounded by sex crazed fur craving women? /shrug

The current real problem causing sealing to take place is that many people working fisheries have no other source of income during off-season. They make a tiny fraction of the money they do from fishing (not surprising considering the near dead fashion market for fur), but its considered better than nothing by many and fits along with their lifestyle etc.

So a REAL solution would be to provide something useful and economically advantageous for the people working these fisheries during the off season.

Pointing fingers is pretty easy. Coming up with practical solutions is not.