[Infowarrior] - More on....PETA Invading Azeroth

[Richard Forno]

> From: security curmudgeon <jericho at attrition.org>


As a WoW player.. 'wow'.

: PETA Invading WoW to Stop Baby Seal Slaughter
: : http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Peta-WoW-battle-seals,7500.html#xtor 
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: : 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?

What's funny is the recent expansion, Wrath of the Lich King,  
introduced a zone called 'Borean Tundra'. In this zone is a camp of  
animal lovers called 'D.E.H.T.A.' (Druids for the Ethical and Humane  
Treatment of Animals) which offers quests to help animals, save them  
from hunter's traps, etc. If you kill a non-aggressive animal in the  
zone, you will also get a 3 minute debuff that basically says "you  
slaughtered bambi" and make the DEHTA followers attack you on sight.

http://www.wowwiki.com/D.E.H.T.A.

: 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.

Sure, blame the Horde. Yet the Alliance has as many hunters and 'bad'  
characters (Player and computer) as the Horde.

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

Yet it's ok to hunt all the other animals for their fur? One of the in  
game primary professions is 'skinning', in which you collect leather  
from animals you kill. This profession is used to support "leather  
working" to craft better armor for your character.

So while PETA saves a token seal, both Horde and Alliance will go on  
to kill and skin great animals like:

http://www.wowwiki.com/Barrens_Giraffe
http://www.wowwiki.com/Fawn
http://www.wowwiki.com/Polar_bear
http://www.wowwiki.com/Tiger
http://www.wowwiki.com/Owl

: 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.

For those who don't play WoW, you won't get how absurd this is. WoW is  
big, there are over 100 servers to support the 10+ million players. On  
each server you can choose between two factions (Horde and Alliance),  
and on Player vs Player (PVP) servers, you can only have characters of  
one faction. WhisperWind is one realm among more than one-hundred, and  
the only one you can show your support on.

Howling Fjord is one of the new zones released with the latest  
expansion and is designed for level 68 characters or higher. That  
means if I want to join in on this 'fun', I have to roll a new  
character on that realm and level the character to 68. That takes most  
players over a month to do.

: 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.

See? Way to cater to a handful of people in the grand scheme.

: “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.

Exactly. Many will show up to slaughter the seals, just to get a rise  
out of the PETA dorks and their supporters. You can stand by and wish  
you were on a PVP realm, where you could at least attack and kill  
those who choose to slaughter the seals.

: Anyone planning on joining in?

Only in mocking PETA's token gesture. But hey, on the bright side,  
while they are protecting virtual seals, maybe they aren't killing  
some of the thousands of animals in the real world:

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/petasdirtysecret.cfm