[Infowarrior] - PETA Invading Azeroth

[Richard Forno]

PETA Invading WoW to Stop Baby Seal Slaughter
12:41 PM - April 8, 2009 by Jane McEntegart
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Category : Miscellaneous

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Peta-WoW-battle-seals, 
7500.html#xtor=RSS-181

Maybe it’s because I never really ventured past Diablo and have no  
real clue how World of Warcraft plays (something I’m really quite  
proud of), but am I the only one who can’t get their head around  
Peta’s WoW endeavors?

The animal rights advocacy group this week announced that they’d be  
taking another avenue in the fight against the Canadian seal  
slaughter. According to the group’s blog, this Saturday WoW players  
will have the chance to combat a team of four Horde seal killers.

“Thrall refused to ban the slaughter of seals, despite multiple  
requests from the Alliance to do so, because Orgrimmar stands to make  
a large profit from the fur,” writes guest poster Ryan Huling from  
peta2. “Activists from across the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor are  
banding together to put a stop to the atrocious seal slaughter.”

“Anyone who slaughters baby seals for their fur must surely be in  
service to the evil Lich King,” Ryan finished.

Those interested in taking part must be in the WhisperWind realm in  
order to fight. Once in the WhisperWind realm, players should head to  
Northrend, where you will find a zone called Howling Fjord, where the  
baby seals live on glaciers and boats float in the fjords. This will  
be the battleground to stop the slaughter.

Battle takes place Saturday, April 11, at 1 p.m. EST and players are  
advised that they must be a Level 70 or higher to play.

Despite the fact that this is a rather odd medium for PETA, WoW  
players are pretty adamant that the servers won’t hold up.

“Whisperwind is NOT a pvp server, most likely you are just going to be  
a witness to the biggest in game seal slaughter and you will be  
powerless to do anything about it,” writes Bumcrum. “Whisperwind is  
already a very high population server, which means most PETA members  
are just going to see the queue screen like the Ron Paul people did,”  
he adds.

Anyone planning on joining in?