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http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/02/28/peta.holocaust/index.html

http://www.masskilling.com

CNN) -- The Anti-Defamation League has denounced a campaign by an 
animal
rights group that compares slaughtering animals to the murder of 6 
million
Jews in World War II.

The graphic campaign and exhibit "Holocaust on Your Plate," devised 
by the
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, juxtaposes 60-square-
foot
panels displaying gruesome scenes from Nazi death camps side by side 
with
disturbing photographs from factory farms and slaughterhouses. One 
shows a
starving man in a concentration camp next to a starving cow.

The exhibit opens Friday in San Diego, California, and went up 
Thursday at
the University of California at Los Angeles. It also is posted on a 
PETA Web
site, www.masskilling.com, which calls for support for the campaign 
from the
Jewish community. 

The comparisons prompted an angry statement from Abraham Foxman,
Anti-Defamation League national director and a Holocaust survivor.

"The effort by PETA to compare the deliberate, systematic murder of 
millions
of Jews to the issue of animal rights is abhorrent," the statement 
said.
"PETA's effort to seek approval for their 'Holocaust on Your Plate' 
campaign
is outrageous, offensive and takes chutzpah to new heights."

Lisa Lange, PETA's vice president of communications, told CNN's 
"American
Morning With Paula Zahn" on Friday that the idea for the public 
relations
effort came from the late Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis 
Singer,
who, she said, wrote: "In relation to them [animals], all people are 
Nazis;
for them it is an eternal Treblinka" -- a death camp in Poland.

Lange said the campaign is appropriate because "Nazi concentration 
camps
were modeled after slaughterhouses."

The Singer quote, which the group draws upon in its literature as 
well, was
not spoken directly by him but rather comes from his novel "Enemies: 
A Love
Story," when the main character muses on the plight of animals. 
Singer was a
vegetarian who believed strongly in animal rights.

"It's shocking, it's startling, it's very hard to look at," Lange 
said of
the exhibit. "We're attacking the mind-set" that condones the 
slaughter of
animals. 

"The very same mind-set 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," 
PETA
representative Mark Prescott wrote in a statement, which added that 
members
of Prescott's family were murdered by Nazis.

The Anti-Defamation League statement, however, counters that "abusive
treatment of animals should be opposed, but cannot and must not be 
compared
to the Holocaust." 

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