Peta

[NuTcAsE]

Dying to support animal rights? Try a PETA coffin

By TIM KORTE (Associated Press Writer)

From Associated Press

December 11, 2008 5:13 AM EST

EDGEWOOD, N.M. - For animal rights activists, sticking up for furry or feathered critters is a way of life. Now it can be a way of death, too.

A New Mexico company is building all-wood human coffins in a partnership with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. They bear painted slogans, such as "Lifetime PETA Member" or "I saved 500 animals."

Another serves up a last laugh that plays on a long-running PETA advertisement: "Told You I Wouldn't Be Caught Dead in Fur!"

The coffins, which went on sale last week, are priced from $620 to $670, which includes a $75 PETA contribution. Made of wood, they are designed to be Earth-friendly, with no screws, nails, hinges or animal-based glues.

They are assembled by Dienna Genther, 44, a former construction worker from Bellingham, Wash., who operates a company called The Old Pine Box in rural Edgewood, about 30 miles east of Albuquerque. She began handcrafting coffins from pine, cedar, maple and other woods in 2004.

When initially contacted, Genther thought PETA wanted to discuss marketing coffins for pets. Her company builds those, too.

"But then they sent the designs, the classic toe-pincher style, and I realized they wanted human coffins," she recalled. "I told them, `We can do it.'"

Genther is not a PETA member but, "I support their cause."

Michael McGraw, a PETA spokesman in New York, said the organization has about 2 million members and supporters, suggesting there are plenty of potential customers for PETA-themed coffins.

"We expect a healthy interest," he said. "It's the best way for people to continue to use their voice for animals in death."

While some designs might seem irreverent, the PETA coffins aren't unusual, Genther said. For years, she noted, funeral homes have offered stylized coffins with such adornments as religious symbols or sports team logos.

Joan Calpin, a 40-year-old health insurance billing clerk and PETA member in Middletown, Del., plans to buy one.

"It's a great idea," she said. "For myself and a lot of my friends who are activists, everybody always says, `All my life, I've helped animals.' Well, now you can say it even after your life is over. You're still helping animals."

Now, if they would just start using them.........

I wonder what the People for the Ethical Treatment of Trees think about this. I mean, how demoralizing is it for a tree to hold a dead PETA person Y'know??

[Guest billwilly73]

I want one.......then line it with deer fur and store all my hunting ammo and meat recipes in it.

[Guest nraforlife]

Hey, I'm a member pf ppeta - People Prefer Eating Tasty Animals.

[KahrMan]

I want one.......then line it with deer fur and store all my hunting ammo and meat recipes in it.

That is a helluva good idea.

[Guest Astra900]

I'm for treating animals with respect. I have no soft spot for people that don't eat what they kill, but you couldn't find a dumber, more screwed up group of douche bags than PETA.

....Peta, peta, vegetable eata, why stir up so much strife? Go away, get a job, and ruining my life!

Like John Boy said; If God didn't want us eatin' animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat!

[NuTcAsE]

I want one.......then line it with deer fur and store all my hunting ammo and meat recipes in it.

and a couple smoked hams, smoked salmon,bacon, a bucket of lard and some deer jerky..

[Guest Astra900]

and a couple smoked hams, smoked salmon,bacon, a bucket of lard and some deer jerky..

Got any room for a bison steak from Ted's Montana Grill?:yum::yum:

[poak]

Got any room for a bison steak from Ted's Montana Grill?:yum::yum:

+1 for Ted's. Actually, make it +7,812,389,123,778

[Guest Astra900]

Ted's Delmanaco Bison Ribeye is my new heroine!

[poak]

Ted's Delmanaco Bison Ribeye is my new heroine!

Your female hero?

[Guest Astra900]

HA! HA!, my spell check let that one slip.

[Guest db99wj]

Ohh, I had a Bison Ribeye, Medium Rare, welll it was Rare, in Columbus, Nebraska a couple of weeks ago. Holy crap and slap your grandma it was good!

As far as PETA is concerned, bunh of nut jobs.

[Guest Astra900]

Slap my MOM good...Heck slap your MOM good!:rofl:

[NuTcAsE]

Ohh, I had a Bison Ribeye, Medium Rare, welll it was Rare, in Columbus, Nebraska a couple of weeks ago. Holy crap and slap your grandma it was good!

As far as PETA is concerned, bunh of nut jobs.

The only way to eat a steak is "knock it's horns off, wipe it's tail end and throw it on a plate.."

y'all starving me...

[poak]

The only way to eat a steak is "knock it's horns off, wipe it's tail end and throw it on a plate.."

y'all starving me...

For sure! It kills me when I see someone order a prime piece of USDA and ask for it anything past Medium-Rare. Order a hamburger!

[Guest db99wj]

The only way to eat a steak is "knock it's horns off, wipe it's tail end and throw it on a plate.."

y'all starving me...

For sure! It kills me when I see someone order a prime piece of USDA and ask for it anything past Medium-Rare. Order a hamburger!

Without a doubt rare to medium rare steak!:D (Only time I have been able to ever use these smilies and not be called a pervert!!!!)

[Guest billwilly73]

Without a doubt rare to medium rare steak! (Only time I have been able to ever use these smilies and not be called a pervert!!!!)

You're still a pervert

[Guest tnmale46]

The only way to eat a steak is "knock it's horns off, wipe it's tail end and throw it on a plate.."

y'all starving me...

agreed

[Guest db99wj]

You're still a pervert

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