PETA Responds Sharply to Sarah Palin's Caribou Killing

By Tracey Harrington McCoy Posted Dec 6th 2010 08:45PM

Sunday night's episode of 'Sarah Palin's Alaska' featured a pretty graphic scene featuring the former vice presidential candidate shooting and killing a caribou--and several animal rights groups, including PETA, aren't happy too about it.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) vice president Dan Mathews released a statement to Fancast sharing his thoughts.

"Sarah seems to think that resorting to violence and blood and guts may lure people into watching her boring show. But the ratings remain as dead as the poor animals she shoots," the statement said.

Palin, for her part, guessed that the show might make waves and issued several statements of her own on Facebook and Twitter--before the show even aired. "Tonight's hunting episode 'controversial'?" she wrote on her Facebook page Sunday. "Really? Unless you've never worn leather shoes, sat upon a leather couch or eaten a piece of meat, save your condemnation of tonight's episode. I remain proudly intolerant of anti-hunting hypocrisy."

In Sunday's show, Palin defended the act of hunting, saying that it's a common way to collect food for the cold months. "Hunting is something most Alaskans do to fill their freezer with meat for the winter," the former Alaskan governor said.

The controversial scene featured Palin shooting the animal and the caribou dropping to the ground, dead. Later in the episode, the hunters cut up the caribou so they can transfer it back home and save it in the freezer. "When you see that you have a successful hit, it's a great feeling of accomplishment," Palin summarized.

Next week episode of 'Sarah Palin's Alaska' features Kate Gosselin and her eight kids accompanying Palin on a camping trip.

Caribou!

► Did You Know? A caribou is just a North American name for a reindeer. A male caribou will try to look his best during mating season by refusing to eat in order to lose most of his body fat. Males will battle other males for the right to a female to mate with. Males are also ladies' men, posssibly having up to 20 partners.

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Monday 06 December

By JP

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I agree. President she is not. She's basically stupid allowing something like this for the public and children to see. Where are her brains.

Wednesday 08 December

By Stephanie

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Pathetic is as pathetic does and Sarah is pathetic. Who needs to see her laying in wait in a bush to kill? Not the image I want to see from a presidential candidate. She has money to spend campaigning but can't buy food to feed her children? Such a lyin fraud. If this were Obama or any Democrat hunting animals, she would be all over this.

By Barbara Adams

Well Peta good for you. Sarah Palin is no better than Michael Vick,if he was wrong for animal cruelty so is she. So, PETA what
are you going to fine her?Millions.

By tim

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PETA needs to suck an egg.

Tuesday 07 December

By Patrick

"Suck an egg"? How old are you, seven?
Sarah Palin is as silly and ignorant as you. Perhaps that's why you like the 1/2 term quitter so much. Levi & Trig are the smartest 2 people in that group.
Thank you PETA for being the voice of reason! Hunting is for a**holes!

By kastle55

Good going Sarah! Look in the households of the PETA people and see what they eat and wear!They need to get over it.

By GP

PETA, HSUS, ASPCA....they're all extremists. Don't give them your hard earned money... ALL of them have "kill" rates in excess of 60% (PETA is @ 97% last year).... Give your money to the struggling local shelters that pay no salaries and euthanize nearly zero. Sarah Palin hunts to eat and while I would not kill to eat personally, I respect her right to do so. This is the USA... I'm tired of the animal extremists acting as if they are superior to all.

By iamciril

She doesn't hunt to eat.

She hunts for sport and happens to eat what she kills.

I've got no problem with that.

By you you you

and Sarah Palin is NOT and extremist, she is a neo con, one stop short of being a militant, no wait... she already insinuates using weapons is okay to fix things.. youbetcha... euwwwww

all I want for Christmas is not to hear or see Palin anywhere in the media for one week

By highgroundshunting

HOW IS THIS CONTROVERSIAL??? Sarah is just doing what humans have always done....hunt! where's the controversy in that? just makin something out of nothing for the sake of doing it! there's no point here at all, get over it, move on people

By MARIE

I belong to PETA. The People for the Eatting of Taste Animals.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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preach on sister!

By dh

learn how to spell...until then, keep your stupidity to yourself.

By Lola

You should learn to spell and write correctly. Maybe all that animal eating is eating at your brain. Go vegetarian (and back to grade school).

By bac

Eating

I love misspelling just one word. I get to see how many anal attentive morons out there will jump on it.

By Bryan

What a show. People Eating Tasty Animals ( PETA ) get mad at Caribou Barbie.

By Carissa Low

PETA can shut up. They are a bunch of whacked out people. How do you think our ancestors lived. They fed off of the land. This is how families eat especially in Alaska. There is a huge difference between animal cruelty against a dog and hunting animals for food. Sarah Palin... your rock!

By Terry

WTG Sarah! Love your Show.

By irene

I would be with Sarah any day of the week then strave with a Peta idiot for one minute. The killing of an animal for meat to feed her family and friends is what the people of Alaaka and around the world have been doing since Able and Cain. So brand new Peta and others dont look dont eat and dont drive sit wear or do anything that takes the use of any animal parts or efforts if you do you one big hippocrite. I can show you time after time that many of the peta and other types are just that . if they ride in planes cars bycycles or walk on the earth they are a hippocrite. So shut the front door up.

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