PETA Collars Beef.com Internet Site

[leftchick]

http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_2560460,00.html

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PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - has nabbed the Internet domain name beef.com and turned it into a site warning the public of the dangers of mad cow disease.

"Mad cow disease hits the United States - it's mad to eat meat," shouts the Web site, which goes on to warn consumers of the dangers associated with eating beef.

The new Web page is particularly galling to the owners of a similarly named site, beef.org, run by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, based in Centennial.

"PETA is trying to unnecessarily scare consumers by leasing the Web domain www.beef.com to take advantage of the case of (mad cow) disease in Washington state," said a statement from the cattlemen's group.

[burrowowl]

1. Good for them

sometimes they do something right.

[eyesroll]

2. Beef.org people should have bought the .com rights, too...

I'm not a PETA fan, but they were within their rights. (See: whitehouse.org .)

[Gin]

3. the scare works for me....makes me sick to my stomach to think of

eating beef again once I read all about the mad coaw and the processing plants. Beef...it's "NOT" for dinner!

[donsu]

4. I'm a fan of PETA and cheer them on

nt

[sendero]

5. The cattlemen's group...

... didn't have the sense and the $7.99 a year to register beef.com?

Bwahahahahaha - that is utterly amazing! Clue to the clueless - better go register beef.net, beef.biz, beef.info, etc. before someone else does. :evilgrin:

PETA should offer them the domain for say, $500K :)

[RebelOne]

6. Kudos! Keep up the good work, PETA!

[theoceansnerves]

7. hahaha

that's hilarious!!
also, check out meat.org, but that one has been owned by vegetarians for as long as i can remember.

[Flightful]

8. Hypocrites

They were the first to freak out when People Eating Tasty Animals registered peta.org. The death threats were pouring in before the site even launched.

[Moderator]

9. leftchick

Please try to keep this story to one forum. I'm locking this one because it has fewer replies (by one) than the thread you posted in GD.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=997049