Nude Protesters From Spain Are All About Animal Rights (SLIDESHOW)

Are nude animal rights protests old hat?

We got word of a protest by AnimaNaturalis, an animal rights group from Spain, in which a semi-nude woman was painted like a wild cat of some sort and remained in a cage in a public area with a sign protesting keeping circus animals in cages.

But we had an awfully hard time finding much more information on it. So we think that maybe people don't care anymore. And maybe it's because animal rights protesters in Spain have been doing an awful lot of the same thing for a long time.

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• • • • • • • • • • • This recent protest reminded us just how many Spanish animal rights protests involve nudity.

Comments

[ChaTo]

05:00 AM on 01/26/2009

This is a very, very, long struggle and they should keep on demonstrat­ing to promote animal rights for as long as they have the will and strength to do so.

[adamsmith3]

07:46 AM on 01/12/2009

LOL, sorry but these protesters look ridiculous­. These kinds of tactics never win over serious-mi­nded people or people who aren't politicall­y active.

[Olofio]

01:13 AM on 01/12/2009

Man, I gotta get to Spain!

[AngusC]

01:27 PM on 01/11/2009

Some of these people are creepy...

[HLL]

12:29 PM on 01/11/2009

It is always beautiful for anyone to protest the abuse of animals however they choose to do so.

It is the secret horror of this civilizati­on.

Animals are Earth angels and should be protected by us, not tormented and destroyed as they have been for millennia.

[InsideTheFrame]

09:57 AM on 01/11/2009

See Europeans will protest in numbers in person to get things changed. Maybe if Americans did that we would have gotten rid of bush a lot sooner instead of just complainin­g about him on the internet. Oh yeah no naked fat guys. http://ins­idetherock­posterfram­e.blogspot­.com

[MGhamma]

03:18 AM on 01/11/2009

As long as the women are hot, they can protest as much as they want. RWOW!!

[Pseudocide]

02:28 AM on 01/11/2009

Is it wrong to get a little aroused by the girls in cages? I wouldn't mind be locked up with them or some of the girls with horns for a little of the old "interspec­ies erotica"..

But seriously.­. don't we have much bigger problems to worry about in the world and in our country than animal rights..? I realize it's sad when some animals are harmed but people--ac­tual people--ar­e dying in America as we speak, every dollar or second spent towards animal rights could've been better spent towards researchin­g cures for the thousands of diseases people are suffering and dying from. Someone you know in your immediate family is suffering from something that could be cured if more time and money was devotd to it. That's just a fact, like it or not: whether we are cruel or not to animals will be irrelevant to the future of our species.

[rwe2late]

10:42 AM on 01/11/2009

Pseudocide
The point you miss, even in your species-ce­ntric viewpoint, is that callousnes­s and cruelty to 'animals' readily crosses over to humans, who are also 'animals'.

Fostering beliefs that it is "fun" to kill animals for 'sport', or that it is OK to mistreat animals kept in captivity, or when bred for food - coarsens ones 'humanity'­, and makes for indifferen­ce to the treatment of humans who can be disparagin­gly catergoriz­ed as 'animals'.

[mabinog]

12:36 PM on 01/11/2009

Please define "humanity"­. Is humanity already defined by as not being cruel to animals? Who decides what is cruel and what is not?

If anything coarsens it, it is our treatment of each other. I would make the converse argument. When we evolve to the point where we can stop hating and killing each other then ending animal cruelty will follow.

Your argument just seems to be one of priority, in which you seem to find humans coming in second.

[horndoggler]

01:44 AM on 01/11/2009

I'm thinking of adopting these cats......

[utopianleft]

07:35 PM on 01/10/2009

It is impossible to take these cute, naked Europeans seriously. What a bunch of self-obses­sed morons, parading around nude as if it were some profound statement. Man, Spain is THE place to go for some hot protest action, guys. Europe is an irrelevant joke on a continenta­l scale.

[MGhamma]

03:20 AM on 01/11/2009

Some women want an excuse for public nudity.

[johnnyjust]

04:03 PM on 01/10/2009

Let me speak for all men: Only hot women, please!!!!­!!

[elsa12]

03:06 PM on 01/10/2009

PETA

People Eating Tasty Animals


I LOVE PETA!! LOL!!!

[adamsmith3]

07:48 AM on 01/12/2009

Now that's a PETA I can donate to.

[bogues]

03:06 PM on 01/10/2009

I don't think anything should be mistreated­, animal or human but I do find it strange that these organizati­ons are so opposed to people wearing fur or leather products. In the first book of the bible, in Genesis, it tells us that God made coats of animal skins for Adam and Eve to cover themselves with after they ate the fruit and became ashamed of the fact that they were necked.

[Merckx]

03:30 PM on 01/10/2009

Most people on the planet do not follow the bible.

[johnnyjust]

04:03 PM on 01/10/2009

Many are called, few are chosen.

[horndoggler]

01:43 AM on 01/11/2009

I think god made the coats out of dinosaur skin, that is the only explanatio­n for their extinction­.

[MarvBitesBack]

02:46 PM on 01/10/2009

LOL. These failed models and actresses have nothing else to do. Heck, at least it's better than binging on Big Macs and "purging" afterwards­.

[rigveda]

02:46 PM on 01/10/2009

Hmmm, reminds of Cheetara from Thundercat­s - my first interspeci­es crush.