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 chris

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Poor Little PETA.... Can't handle the fact that people hunt and yes people kill animals and YESSSS they eat them. Maybe they should spend more time worring about trimming their arm pit hair.....

By Ladydobermann

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PETA WHO? PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals! Who CARES what those wackos think or say? I sure don't.

By kbrown2225

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The animals have the advantage? Yeah sure when is the last time a caribou came after you with a high-powered rifle. Palin is a pig. She is a millionaire so the only reason she has for killing a cariblu is to fulfill her own desire to kill and to try to get ratings for her lousy show. That woman is a disgrace.

By Gina

Wouldn't it be great if the media would cover the selfless people working for us behind the scenes instead of a celebritchity who adds nothing of value to this nation?

By Scott

If PETA is mad at her then she must be doing something right. Sarah just took a step up in my book!

By Elizabeth

You have a book?! That's surprising since you seem uneducated.

By 2broke

let me get this straight, michael vick gets 2 years in federal prison for dog fighting but sarah palin shoots and KILLS a poor caribou and she gets a finger wag. she needs to go to jail !!!!!

By Kay

If you ask a hunter who hunts for 'real' and a fisherman that catches fish for a living, they will tell you there is an art and decency to how they hunt and catch.
Watching Sarah Palin shoot, beat and kill and then try to tell us it's what she does to put food on her table - who is she kidding.
Dumb show, dumb woman, dumb sense of right and wrong.

By hoverZero

Killing is killing and soon people might eat people.

By Rand

This is unthinkable TV Killing animals is not something we should be watching or enforcing. HORRIBLE and SAD> What is she going to do next? Kill her family for ratings or votes? I am ashamed for American TV and values.

By mary

Good for Peta !!!!! Sarah is crazy not only does she think she is so cool killing caribou but she wants to kill all the wolves too, so she can kill more caribou...so stupid!

By Kat

I am sorry that an innocent animal had to die. Being vegetarian is so much more humane and healthy for the planet and the animals. Times have changed...we don't need to slaughter animals for food anymore. We are destroying ourselves and the earth. It is scientifically proven.

By Jim

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Humans are genetically evolved to be omniverous, which accounts for many vegetarians being nutritionally challenged unless they take GREAT care to not be so. Not only that, but vegetarians are environmentally inferior to omnivores, in that an omnivore will survive no matter what the environment. Vegetarians or carnivores are too tied in to their food source. Not only that, but the vast majority of animals on earth that are generally considered the most intelligent are almost all either omnivores or carnivores. Intelligent vegetarians are in the far minority.

By Cutie

........when you get off this post google a map of Alaska's norther coast where she visited a lone woman to see planting times, do you really think a ground with permafrost is a good place to grow fruits and vegetables? The nearest store is 400 miles and they are in the same tundra. We need to stop looking at Alaskans like people in the lower 48, certainly Anchorage is a great city with about anything you could want but she was out in the middle of nowhere to show you something more about Alaska.

Tuesday 07 December

By sdpatriot1941

"..Being vegetarian is so much more humane.." I am sure you would be proud of the most famous 'vegetarian' in history, Adolf Hitler, maybe if he would have had a burger he wouldn't of flipped his lid, probably why you 'vegans' are so off your rocker, protein-deprived brains shrunk by smoking too many 'herbs'.

By Vaniteeth

Actually, sdpatriot1941, Hitler was only a vegetarian because he had a gas problem. It was the syphilis that made him crazy.
Jus' sayin'.

By jdunn75506

Peta- worry about mistreatment of animals not a hunting for food situation- your efforts should be focused on dog beatings, mistreatments of other animals suchb as stray cats, people with 20 cats that they can't feed. Your efforts are personal as they say this was boring etc- its personal as I see it so Peta- I will not help you , donate to you or listen to you again-bye

I'm no fan of Palin's. However, I detest PETA. They are just a bunch of whack jobs. A MUCH better organization is the SCPA, who actually WORK to help animals instead of just make whacky ads and grandstand in the press like PETA does.

By R.C.

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I want to go on record that I LOVE animals...they're delicious!

By Welcome Mr. Bill

Do PETA people actually have jobs? I mean, do they get PAID for thinking that BS about animal treatment? I can see it now on "survival" the PETA representative starves to death because he does not want to kill the caribou, deer, whatever and the others survive. If you don't care for the show, look on the little remote you were given with the TV and push DOWN on the channel selecter? ( need a tutorial video for these instructions?)
DUH!!!
Sara Rocks and has a great , caring family that make most groups out there in TV land--the ones with the funky body jewerly, tattoos, and spiked hair wish they had stayed in school and listened to their parents.

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