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| The '''Holocaust on your Plate''' was a controversial exhibition mounted by ] in ]. It was funded by an anonymous ]ish ],<ref name=Teather>Teather, David. "'Holocaust on a plate' angers US Jews"], ''The Guardian'', March 3, 2003.</ref> consisted of eight 60-square-foot panels, each juxtaposing images of the ] with images of ]. Photographs of concentration camp inmates in wooden bunks were shown next to photographs of battery chickens, and piled bodies of Holocaust victims next to a pile of pig carcasses. Captions alleged that "like the Jews murdered in ]s, animals are terrorized when they are housed in huge filthy warehouses and rounded up for shipment to slaughter. The leather sofa and handbag are the moral equivalent of the lampshades made from the skins of people killed in the ]."<ref name=SmithHolocaust>Smith, Wesley J. , ''San Francisco Chronicle'', December 21, 2003.</ref> | |||
| Wesley J. Smith of the ] wrote in ''The San Francisco Chronicle'' that: "Making odious moral equivalencies between animal husbandry and the worst crimes against humans has become a PETA trademark."<ref name=SmithHolocaust/> ] of the ] said the exhibition, which was shown in San Diego, New York, and the University of California in Los Angeles, was "outrageous, offensive and takes ] to new heights ... he effort by Peta to compare the deliberate systematic murder of millions of Jews to the issue of animal rights is abhorrent."<ref name=Teather/> The Jewish ] (ADL) denounced the campaign<ref name=ADL1>Press Release , February 24, 2003</ref> and PETA eventually issued a weak apology<ref name=ADL2>Press Release , ADL Website, August 2, 2005</ref>. The ] urged animal-rights groups to avoid holocaust comparisons, saying that "the issue should stand on its own merits, rather than rely on inappropriate comparisons that only serve to trivialize the suffering of the six million Jews and others who died at the hands of the Nazis."<ref name=ADL3>Press Release , ADL Website, August 2, 2005.</ref> | |||
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| PETA defended the campaign. The project's website cited Jewish Nobel laureate ], who wrote of animals: "In relation to them, all people are ]s; for the animals it is an eternal ]."<ref>, ''Peta.org''</ref>. Singer's words were actually spoken by a character in his novel "Enemies: A Love Story." <ref>, CNN, February 28, 2003.</ref> The exhibition was supported by Singer's grandson, Stephen R. Dujack, when it traveled to New York.<ref>, ''Peta.org'', October 9, 2003.</ref> The creator of the campaign, Matt Prescott, who is Jewish and lost several relatives in the Holocaust, told ''The Guardian'': "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 ... The fact is, all animals feel pain, fear and loneliness. 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."<ref name=Teather/> | |||
| PETA has used Holocaust imagery before. A television public service announcment entitled "They Came for Us at Night," which aired on U.S. cable networks and in Warsaw, Poland in July 2003, "showed the outside world through the slats of a boxcar and is narrated by a man (with an accent) who describes the plight of being transported with no food and water," according to the Anti-Defamation League, and drew an analogy between the plight of animals being transported to their deaths in cattle cars with Jews in the same situation during the Holocaust.<ref name=ADL2/> Newkirk has been quoted as saying "Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses."<ref name=Shafran><Rabbi Avi Shafran, [http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/25916/format/html/displaystory.html "This time PETA's guilty of missing the point", Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, May 20, 2005</ref> | |||
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