If you are a true follower of the PETA dictums, right now, in addition to the more… ah traditional constraints like no meat, no poultry, no fish, no wool, no leather, no circuses, no zoos, no animal research, no pets, no seeing eye dogs, no goats mowing Google lawns (at least, without proper veterinary care and retirement bennies, which a company like Google will OBVIOUSLY be too cheap to provide), you would, also, be foregoing butter and honey. Can’t violate something so inherently of the animal kingdom with your morning toast!
Hopping to join a good cause!
Vick-tim of bad press!
Forget, also, drinking milk and eating dairy. Do you like Parmesan cheese over your lasagna? Tough cookies — not that cookies are permitted, at least, not the cholesterol-inducing tasty kind. Oh, and forget the eggs! Why, there could have been a chick you are devouring with your omelet, no matter that by and large the eggs that are sold have never been fertilized.
Forget, too, that we are omnivores. Evolution — or God, whichever theory you subscribe to — have conspired to put us on the very top of the food chain. What we do with our power is our decision.
We could, for example, exterminate over 21,ooo pets in 10 years. PETA itself is the organization to have done so, though the erm, pat explanation is, they were unadoptable because they were not in the best of help or simply too non-socialized. Considering it has expended precisely 0 man-hours a year of its hefty $30+ million annual budget to adopt out 7 homeless pets in their care and considering that football great Michael Vick’s dogs were exactly of that, highly dangerous, “unadoptable” kind, how is it that one amazing person, about whom I had already written more than once, a celebrated tattoo artist Brandon Bond and those he is working with, like Villa Lobos‘ and Animal Planet’s Tia Maria Torres, managed to home everyone of the pit bulls rescued from Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels (with the exception of one, who had terminal cancer, and another who ended up being struck by a car)? To me, it’s not the majority of animals that are unsocializable, it is the people that are working — or NOT working with them — that are contributing to PETA’s dismal success rate.
But I suppose, NOW it just might improve. Because PETA is currently deep in negotiations to hire a new hot spokesperson to truly bring their message to the fore. What with this person’s experience in handling animal-rights related issues and their deep and abiding need to do good by those we mercilessly eat, use for clothing, lawn mowing — or entertainment, as may be the case in racing or illegal cockfighting and dogfighting rings, I can see how the PETA marketing department has truly come up with a gem.
Wouldn’t YOU want to stop abusing our animal breathren? Wouldn’t YOU want to go and destory every egg-filled case in your local WalMart if you heard that person coming to you with their message?
AWWW, who doesn't love a good wedding?
Because after all, Michael Vick would be a CELEBRITY spokesperson, and when one of those speaks, we, hoi-polloi, sit up and take their heartfelt words to our own heart! What does it matter that a man is a criminal who isn’t even allowed to return to professional football? What do we care that he has cold-heartedly put to death several dogs that were too weak to keep around?
PETA, it may be said, is doing its own herd-culling. So, taken from that perspective, yes, I have to agree, this IS an inspired choice.
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