Parsons tweets about PETA hypocrisy.
After Go Daddy founder and CEO Bob Parsons killed an elephant in Zimbabwe, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was quick to pounce on him. The company moved its domain names from Go Daddy to a rival domain name registrar.
But Parsons won’t let PETA get away that easy. Today he tweeted the following to his 34,000 followers:
The first link is to a PETA story about “Deadly Destinations“, which blasts places like Disney’s Wild Animal Kingdom, Sea World, and the St. Louis Zoo.
The second link is to PETAkillsanimals.com, a site that tracks how many animals PETA itself slaughters each year. In 2010 PETA killed 693 dogs and 1,507 cats according to records at its Virginia facility.
Granted, PETA doesn’t release videos of its killings set to an AC/DC soundtrack 🙂
Update: for what it’s worth, I just got this message from PETA:
We read your blog post about Bob Parsons’ tweet citing PETAKillsAnimals.com, a site managed by the deceitfully named Center for Consumer Freedom, an organization that shills for the meat, tobacco, and alcohol industries. Thank you for noting that PETA does not get a thrill from killing animals as Parsons clearly does. We’d like to expand on that if we might.
PETA makes no secret of having to euthanize most of the animals it takes in. PETA’s spay/neuter clinics struggle to reduce companion-animal overpopulation by providing free and low-cost services, and they sterilized more than 10,000 animals last year alone. Unlike traditional shelters, PETA takes in the worst of the worst cases and offers a service to the community, which includes providing a peaceful, painless death to elderly, ailing, or injured companion animals, often at the request of their human companions. PETA routinely transfers highly adoptable animals to a local open-admission shelter so that those animals have a chance at finding a loving, permanent home. The only way to stop the euthanasia of 3 million to 4 million animals a year in this country is to stop the births of unwanted animals. Until people stop buying animals from breeders and pet stores and spay and neuter their animal companions, dogs and cats will continue to die in large numbers.
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I doubt if PETA kills animals for sport.
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The bigger they come the harder they fall. Bob is going to find that out the hard way.
Can you say “Goodbye GoDaddy,” because nobody like elephant killers.
Hey Bob,
What does Elephant taste like?
Chicken?
That is not new for BOB. He is the most hated man by all his competitors. You do not become #1 by being nice. He is like a tornado; when he makes a move he takes away everything in his path, even a small customer with few dozen domains.
Of course PETA does not kill for sport..they kill because it keeps them in MONEY while not having to do those dreaded things like vet sick animals.. or try to find homes for them Much easier to lie about what will happen to them and then kill them as they did in a fairly recent trial. peta kills animals . it does not matter if CCf says it or anyone else.. it is true.. they took HEALTHY pets from shelters ( not sick or dying) and killed them BEFORE they left the parking lot, then dumped them in a grocery store dumpster..Newkirk and her friend at HSUS may want to shoot the messenger but they cannot deny the message.. PETA KILLS ANIMALS.. if they tried to sign up at my domain business i would turn them down flat,their money has the blood of treatable innocent animals all over it. YUK.
“That is not new for BOB. He is the most hated man by all his competitors. You do not become #1 by being nice. He is like a tornado; when he makes a move he takes away everything in his path, even a small customer with few dozen domains.”
There is a big difference between him being a
narcissistic chauvinist and him being an elephant killer.
It is over for Bob. You can take that “tough biz man stuff” and throw it in the garbage because this story isn’t going away.
I love how he justifies it in this vid.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy-ceo-elephant-hunt_n_843121.html
If a guy breaks into a liquor store
and steals all the booze, can his defense be “I was just trying to stop people from drinking”
People can come up with a rationalization for anything. The fact is that this guy took joy in killing a beautiful animal and now he and his employees will pay the price.
breaking into a liquor store is against the law.. it is the taking of anothers property Shooting this elephant was not against the law and in fact fed hungry people. If he had poached the elephant that would have been wrong but he did not poach it..
Shooting an elephant IS against the law in America. Going to Africa to do it doesn’t make it right.
And if Bob wants to feed hungry people in Africa, he should use his fortune to open soup kitchens.
The idea that he is somehow feeding starving people is just laughable.
He did not shoot an elephant in America.. he shot an elephant legally. YOU may think it is not right for your moral stance but it is not illegal. How Bob uses his money is his business as long as it is not illegal. If you think soup kitchens are needed in Africa you should start one yourself. The Africans obviously wanted the meat.
PETA continuously tries to shoot down people who “expose” them for the money hungry, egocentric, hipocrites they are. Not only do they kill just about every animal that comes to them, but they also are trying to end meat eating and turn everyone into vegans. Hey, you want to be a vegan, fine. But do NOT try to make me into one. God put animals on earth to feed “other” meat eating animals. Humans are meat eating animals and are at the top of the food chain. When we eat meat, we are not committing a crime, we are not doing anything that is morally wrong. We are sustaining our bodies in the way God meant us to. No, I am NOT a bible thumper in any way, shape or manner. What I am, is sick and tired of both PETA and HSUS making MONEY off of the exploitation of videos showing poor conditions of which some animals are raised. Not ALL breeders do this, nor do they mass produce puppies. There are GOOD breeders, who supply healthy, happy and well socialized puppies and kittens for the public. While many healthy and good natured animals are in shelters, few are from “real” breeders, as “real” breeders will take back their puppies or kittens if the owners cannot keep them. They also have “Breed Rescues” where they remove the pets of their breed from shelters, and vet them and find them wonderful, loving homes. They do not remove them from shelters, then KILL them and dump their dead bodies like PETA has done. When they got caught, that was just ONCE they got caught. How many other times did they do this? Do not believe one word that comes from either PETA or HSUS. They are SCAMMING “YOUR” money, all in the name of “helping” animals…..NOT! It goes into their pockets. that is why HSUS is being investigated by the IRS!!
Stoning women to death for adultery is legal in some countries. Does that make it right?
If Bob owned a Circus in America and was filmed shooting an elephant and then proudly posing for pics with his gun in front its body, he’d be jailed.
BTW, where is the sport in shooting something the size of house?
If he is smart he’ll do a mea culpa and donate $25 mm to an elephant charity.
However, I think the size of his ego makes it impossible for him to that.
Note: I am know fan of PETA, but even a
broken clock is right twice a day.
If Bob uses his elephant gun on PETA, I’ll write a song singing his praises.
Jonty I do believe that Ingrid Newkirk is your idol.
Comparing human suffering ( as you do) to the use of animals is a typical PETA ploy
Why doesn’t PETA donate 25 million .. they have the money..
because they are hypocrites and money mongers
I called Bob a couple of months after he opened Godaddy. I told him how to improve his platform, but he didn’t seem to take it well.
3 weeks later he implemented all my suggestions.
A real man knows when to admit he is wrong. I think Bob is a real man. At least, he served his country.
Killing elephants is not cool.
Just admit it.
As the saying goes “pride goeth before the fall.”
I would shoot every elephant in the world before I killed a human being.
But that doesn’t make killing elephants right.
PETA is a shady operation,no doubt.
But let’s not confuse the argument: Killing elephants is wrong.
http://www.worldwildlife.org/ogc/species_SKU.cfm?gid=28&sc=AWY1107WCGK1&searchen=google&gclid=CIiMos6mn6kCFQsCbAoda11_uA