-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,906288,00.html 'Holocaust on a plate' angers US Jews
David Teather in New York Monday March 3, 2003 The Guardian An animal rights organisation has sparked outrage with a campaign and exhibition that compares the slaughter of livestock to the Holocaust in the second world war. The exhibition, called Holocaust on Your Plate, juxtaposes harrowing images of people in concentration camps with disturbing pictures of animals on farms. One photograph showing an emaciated man is next to another of a starving cow. Another shows a pile of naked human bodies, next to a shot of a heap of pig carcasses. The exhibition is on show in San Diego and at the University of California in Los Angeles. The organisation behind the campaign, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta), intends to take it on a tour of the US, and has set up an exhibition website, masskilling.com. Peta has appealed to the Jewish community for support. In an open letter published on the organisation's website, it cites the Jewish Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, who wrote of animals: "In relation to them, all people are Nazis." The campaign's creator, Matt Prescott, said: "The very same mindset that made the Holocaust possible - that we can do anything we want to those we decide are 'different or inferior' - is what allows us to commit atrocities against animals every single day." But the appeal has done little to calm the fury of Jewish groups. Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League and a Holocaust survivor, said the attempt to win approval was "outrageous, offensive and takes chutzpah to new heights". He said that while the abuse of animals should be opposed, "the effort by Peta to compare the deliberate systematic murder of millions of Jews to the issue of animal rights is abhorrent". "Rather than deepen our revulsion against what the Nazis did to the Jews, the project will undermine the struggle to understand the Holocaust and to find a way to make sure such catastrophes never happen again," he said. Mr Prescott is Jewish and lost several relatives in Nazi concentration camps. The campaign, he added, was funded by a Jewish philanthropist, who wished to remain anonymous. He said he had expected it to elicit criticism. "The fact is, all animals feel pain, fear and loneliness," he said. "We're asking people to recognise that what Jews and others went through in the Holocaust is what animals go through every day in factory farms." Other images compare children behind barbed wire with a picture of pigs looking out from behind bars; crowds of people, with cattle being herded into transports; and people crammed into bunks, with chickens in a battery farm. Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003 Forwarded for your information. 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