Posted by Sam at June 22nd, 2006

Rise Against has a new video out called “Ready to Fall.” It is a political video about cruelty to animals and such. Rise Against is a big supporter of PETA and all that animal rights stuff, so they included many clips in their video of animals being tortured in various ways. These are clips probably taken from PETA “recruiting” videos that shock people into joining up with their movement.

I like Rise Against, and I like Animals. I am against animal torture. However, I do believe PETA is extreme in their approach and beliefs. But that is for another post.

So anyway, I found the video on Youtube and left this comment attached to it:

Did you see all the animals they tortured to make this video? Bands like this who kill animals for shock value make me sick.

You would have to be incredibly dense to not pick up on the fact that this was a pro animal-rights video. You’d also have to be incredibly dense to not figure out I was be facetious. The viewers of Youtube, however, will never cease to amaze you. Here is a reply I got from xVEGANJUSTICEx:

The footage of animal and earth torture you see in the video all comes from past filming of people/companies that destroy this world and its creatures and are doing so this very second. The band just compiled footage to put out a video that stands against this and is meant to wake people up. The band would not condone harming animals and they are all vegetarian.


Then someone replied to that comment asking if the person was vegan, as if his name was not enough to tip him off on the fact.

If you want to watch to video our see the comments, click here.