Probably more of a CTM than WTF, but here is as good as anywhere.
No, I’d say that’s pretty WTF.
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It’s PETA. I’m rarely shocked or even surprised at what they say and do.
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Spececist, GTFO, humans are the best species, there is no equality if the species.
I don’t know, I’ve seen plenty of people talk about their pets in a way that makes me wonder about what their response would be in the train ethical dilemma if the one life that could be saved while sacrificing 5 human lives were their pet.
This PETA story is from the Onion, right?
In other stupid news, Demi Lovato has an opinion that the word “aliens” in in fact derogatory to species from other planets, and they prefer that we refer to them simply as extraterrestrials because that term is less offensive to them.
How in the world does she know what aliens find offensive? And why do we care not to offend them, exactly?
Did you not realize that men in black was a documentary?
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Went back and looked, WKRC in Cincinnati, not WKRP in Cincinnati so I’m going with not Onion.
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Have Alec Baldwin be a producer on the subject?
too soon?
If the pet were ao fan’s dog and the 5 humans were her neighbors . . .
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a reminder:
http://edition.cnn.com/US/9609/06/fishy.name/
Stu’s theory was, being a bunch of vegans who didn’t actually do any nutritional research, they’re missing micronutrients and are just a bunch of idiots. (at the time, Stu had been a long time strict vegetarian who knew he had to be careful to replace nutrients one may miss if you eschew animal products)
uh
News that makes you say, “yikes!”
It’s possible he gave consent. But if so, he should have mentioned it to his family.
It sounds like the family gave formal consent, but they were misled as to what they were consenting to. They thought it was going to be for research, not entertainment purposes.
I mean, I kind of understand it’s educational entertainment (and people watch surgical shows, etc. (that is not my cup of tea)), but that is somewhat odd to me.
I understand that consent is important, but it’s also kind of hard for me to get too worked up over that. He’s dead.
I dunno, maybe it’s my Christian belief that our bodies are only temporary earthly vessels that we will ultimately discard like a used car, or maybe it’s because most of my family was either cremated or used as cadavers in medical schools (and I fully assume that in the midst of cutting up my grandma med students were cracking irreverent jokes and flirting with each other and discussing the prior night’s Tonight Show monologues and doing whatever else it is that people in their early 20s do). Or maybe it’s both.
But regardless, he’s dead. It’s not hurting him. I guess that makes me insensitive. 
My Jr. High history teacher mentioned once* that he was working with a cadaver and was interested in what the process of scalping a person was like, so they did it to the cadaver.
*I don’t remember any details (Was a teacher there? What was he studying?, etc), and he probably didn’t share any. I don’t know what his career path was that took him from working with a cadaver in college to teaching Jr. High history, but he did have a phd of some sort.
It’s not about the dead guy, it’s about his family’s feelings. That’s all.
My youngest sister is an MD and she had some interesting stories about her first year in med school. They had to do cadaver work, and med students are generally working on a cadaver over a long period, so they keep opening it up and closing it up again.
Often, after the cadaver is used for the semester, they have a funeral/interment/cremation at the end.
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OK, I know posting anything QAnon in this thread is probably redundant, but here it goes anyway.
I would have thought it would be “heralding the reinstatement of Camelot” but that is not what follows in the article.
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Holy crap. There’s a better chance that The Great Pumpkin will show up. What fbeeping idiots.
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