Heck, I go away for a few days and all hell breaks loose. The biggest piece of garbage in Al Qaeda gets caught napping, Turkey shows her true stripes (?) and PETA goes extra-offensive with its new ad campaign.
I imagine that among these stories, the least important is PETA. As a matter of fact, PETA has never registered anywhere on my priority list since I first became aware of its unfortunate existence years ago. But the other topics have been fairly picked over already and I just got home. I have lots of catching up to do. So right now I just want to take the opportunity to join Meryl's latest campaign: International Eat an Animal for PETA Day.
To the vegetarians reading this blog, I apologize. (As Meryl points out, there are ways for some of you to participate in this event, as well.) I'm hardly in favor of cruelty to animals, but I deliberately made my letter to PETA as obnoxious as possible. Well, almost.
Hey PETA,
How are you all doing? Just fine, smug and self-satisfied as usual, I'm sure.
I'm just writing to let you know that I'll be joining with many of my friends, relatives and neighbors in a special tribute to your nauseating and utterly offensive campaign wherein you have the unmitigated gall to compare the slaughter of animals for food to the slaughter of human beings out of pure hatred. We'll be making a point of consuming animal flesh, animal fat, animal parts of all kinds and shapes and tastes that day. In your honor. Because of you. Make sure you understand this. We're all going to go out of our way to carve up and eat a beast, a fowl, a fish, a crustacean or some combination of the above, to minimize our intake of vegetables and grains and to max out on meat for a day, just to show our outrage, our anger and our disgust -- at you. Stick that in your tofu and smoke it.
You really are quite pathetic, all of you. For years, I've watched the antics of PETA and become more and more outraged by the fact that as you strut around purporting to "care" about sensitivity toward animals, you demonstrate such an utter lack of civility, such a total failure to grasp the very concept of "sensitivity," that your theatrics are nothing more than a sick joke. But no one is laughing. More importantly, you've done more to alienate people who might otherwise be inclined to such sensitivity than any other entity I know.
Have a nice day.
Lynn B.
blogging against unethical exploitation of animals for self-aggrandizement at http://incontext.blogmosis.com
I got a nice little canned auto-response back, asking, of course, for my support. I think not.
