Originally posted by Lalania
I agree, the people at work think I am "weird" because I am a vegetarian and stuff

Same here! We studied food and nutrition in H&CS, and everyone was like "What kind of retards would do that?!" and "Animals are stupid!" when we hit onto vegiterianism. A lot of people do know I'm a vegiterian, and my friends' parents give me looks when I tell them.
I REALLY wish that we could have an education program on animal abuse in schools, just like we do for drugs. More people in my school NEED to know about animal abuse. There was some idiot boys who did something horrifying to a bird somewhere on L.I., and it was in the news. One of the girls in my english class did a presentation on it, and half of the class started howling with laughter!!! It was a CRUEL and SICK thing that they did -- I am not saying it because I do not want to upset bird lovers, and all animal lovers. Almost 3/4 of my school think declawing is good! Even some of my friends! So I explained to them what exactly makes it so cruel. They just said "So?!" It really disappoints me that less people in our generation-at this age-don't care about abuse, and think it is "entertatining". I've known kids who shot their dogs with paintball guns, trying to pretend they are hunters. That is truly making a mockery out of some hunters, for I do know a hunter who has a kind heart for animals.

Back to the commercial thing- That is so cruel. It is horrible how people can do that. I hope they used a fake cat, but fake or real, it still gets across the same message. It's no different from the Quizno's commercial (which sadly, I see almost four times a day, and I don't watch TV that much). What jerks.