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PETA: Holocaust on Your Plate Tour - Birmingham Protester Arrested

This n That | 14.05.2004 22:55 | Animal Liberation | Birmingham

Protester arrested over Holocaust images
May 13 2004

An animal rights protester who defied a ban on publicly displaying graphic images of holocaust victims and animal slaughterhouse scenes has been arrested during a demonstration in Birmingham, police have said.

Andrew Butler was detained in Birmingham city centre where the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals held its Holocaust On Your Plate rally.

The charity had been told by Birmingham City Council not to display the images, which compared the Nazis' genocide with practices in factory farms.

Mr Butler was the first PETA activist to be arrested during the organisation's latest campaign, which has visited more than 70 cities worldwide, including London.

Colleague Matt Prescott, who devised the images, said: "The reason we chose to go through with it and defy the ban is that it is so important for people to realise that we cannot continue to turn our backs on the victimisation of and violence against animals."

West Midlands Police said a man was arrested for a public order offence, but it is understood he will not face any charges.


Source:  http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=14236306%26method=full%26siteid=50002%26headline=protester%2darrested%2dover%2dholocaust%2dimages-name_page.html


PETA; Holocaust on Your Plate Website:  http://www.masskilling.com

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has he been charged with anything?

15.05.2004 07:16

Because i haven't heard of any laws that allow councils to ban the display of images in a non-commercial sense.

fredrico
mail e-mail: musteatvegan@yahoo.oc.uk


Crass and stupid.

15.05.2004 14:45

I suspect he was arrested on a public order offence of some kind. It does seem wrong to use images of the holocaust to advertise PETA's views. It belies a total loss of grip on reality on the part of the protestor and the organisation that they feel this vulgar advertising is appropriate or likely to further their aims. I once worked in an abbatoir, so I guess they would execute me for war crimes.

zaskar
mail e-mail: markdwatson@blueyonder.co.uk


The Daily Holocaust that our animal brothers and sisters endure.

15.05.2004 16:37

“When I see cages crammed with chickens from battery farms thrown on trucks like bundles of trash, I see, with the eyes of my soul, the Umschlagplatz [the spot in the Warsaw Ghetto where Jews were forced onto trains leaving for the death camps]. When I go to a restaurant and see people devouring meat, I feel sick. I see a holocaust on their plates.”
— Georges Metanomski, Holocaust survivor who fought in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising


“In relation to [animals], all people are Nazis; for [them] it is an eternal Treblinka.”
— Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), Yiddish writer and vegetarian



PS: Why don't you just stick to infecting Bristol IMC 'zascar'?

SK8ER


Zascar is right meat is not murder

18.07.2004 15:30

Zascar is right comparing factory farming to the holocast is very silly. It is also immoral as however much one might care about animals people must come first. there is nothing wrong with appropriatley and humanely farming and eating animals.

Steaklover