Activists take credit for juice poisoning

[meegbear]

Animal activists claim they have poisoned 487 bottles of POM Wonderful's juice on the U.S. Eastern seaboard to protest animal testing.

A POM Wonderful spokesman told United Press International the company has not confirmed the validity of the claim, but it was contacted by the FBI regarding the issue. The spokesman said the company is preparing a statement on the matter.

The North American Animal Liberation Press Office distributed a communiqué it received that claimed credit for the juice poisoning and was signed "animal rights militia." POM Wonderful, which makes pomegranate juice, has been a target of animal activists since it was revealed the company uses animals, such as newborn mice and rabbits, to test its juice and show its health benefits.

<snip>

"Those who drink the contaminated juice won't die like the animals in pom labs, but the diarrhea, vomiting and headaches will hopefully send a strong message that people will no longer allow innocent defenseless animals to be tormented and killed for a health juice," the communiqué states.

http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.upi.com%2FHealthBusiness%2Fview.php%3FStoryID%3D20061219-093253-4881r

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. This was a stupid thing to do

it only means that animal rights activists will look like terrorists. And aren't people animals too? What right does anyone have putting poison in anything?

[PreacherCasey]

6. Not "look like" terrorists, they ARE terrorists.

I don't understand how people do not see the utter futility of nonsense like this.

They feel "justified" in their violence. Well that's great, so does the other guy perpetrating violence against you. Violence solves nothing, it only keeps the cycle going. Ehh...

[Buzz Clik]

2. More brilliance from the "mice are people, too" crowd.

God, I love terrorists.

[PreacherCasey]

3. Perpetrating violence against random individuals to prove

a point, genius!

Now I can stop trying to convince people of the validity of my particular argument and just poison them instead. What a time saver!

[Turbineguy]

4. Wow!

I had to drink pomegranate juice in Karachi (it looked like red wine and we were having Italian food) so I know what those poor mice must have been going through.

I guess it's a good thing we have those who are willing to poison people to help animals. Just like all those people in Iraq who blow up others to show that they have a better ideology. Making the world a better place.

[Ellis Wyatt]

5. Does ANYONE

support this? How do you rationalize it? There has to be some study that proves that this type of activism not only doesn't help your cause, but actually hurts it.

[Rosemary2205]

7. These aren't activists they are terrorists. nt

[nam78_two]

13. Amen.nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. If true, they have become the enemy they decry.

In case the idiots haven't noticed, humans are animals who no more deserve to be "tormented and killed" than rabbits or mice.

[derby378]

9. I hope they get busted

This sort of activity should never be tolerated, no matter who's responsible for it. Same goes for those followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh who poisoned that salad bar in Oregon a few years back.

[China_cat]

10. When the perpetrators are caught

you can count on PETA to raise bail and pay their legal fees. And even give them jobs.

See Rodney Coronado for precedent.

[baby_mouse]

11. Idiots.

Sometimes you just want to give up...

[flvegan]

12. POM already announced that this was a hoax

On, like, Tuesday:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061219/latu110.html?.v=66

POM Wonderful Denounces Cruel Hoax
Tuesday December 19, 9:13 pm ET

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- POM Wonderful, the nation's leading producer of pomegranate juice, announced today that it appears to be the target of a cruel hoax by the Animal Rights Militia, which has boasted to the media and on the internet that it intentionally contaminated bottles of POM Wonderful juices in several retail chains on the East Coast of the United States.

[LeftyMom]

14. But it's hard to get worked into a lather about a semi-coherent prank email

Fear not, DUers are absolutely up to the task. :eyes:

[flvegan]

15. It's like Audition Night for CNN or something

what with all the terra/ism/ists getting tossed around here.

[LeftyMom]

18. They still haven't graduated up to Fox level paranoia.

If one person on the East Coast gets the hershey quirts before this blows over, expect proposals for every tub of tofu to include a free one way ticket to Gitmo.

This shit gets old. :eyes:

[meegbear]

17. Glad to hear it ...

thanks. :hi:

[tritsofme]

21. Well I hope these idiots get sued.

For publicaly driving away customers with such lies.

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. Those people are NUTS! Think of the innocent people who could drink that!

A CHILD could drink one and DIE. This is not the way to help animals. How will they be helping animals when they're in JAIL? IDIOTIC MOVE. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

[LeftyMom]

20. Drink completely uncontaminated juice and die?

Scroll up. POM says it's a hoax and there's no contaminated juice.

Then go read the freakin' "communique" because it's pretty obvious that whoever wrote it couldn't find their ass with two hands and a flashlight, let alone carry out a massive campaign of product contamination undetected.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

19. What A Bunch Of Evil Morons. I Hope They Get Caught And Thrown Behind Bars For Quite Some Time.

[Pushed To The Left]

22. People who do this sort of thing hurt their cause

Poisoning people is not the way to bring people to their side!

[ForrestGump]

23. The subject line got me all excited...

I thought somebody'd poisoned OJ Simpson.




:hide: