I’m pretty sure that no dues-paying member of PETA would eat anything containing animal products of any kind. Unless, that is, you’re gnawing the bones of a recently dead celebrity, in which case it’s all good. In their latest bid to become the Heidi& Spencer of do-gooder orgs, PETA has announced they’re seeking the rights to Michael Jackson’s 1972 hit “Ben.” According to Tracy Rieman, executive vice president of PETA, “Michael Jackson’s hit has always been a moving testament to the power of empathy for animals.”
Well, sort of. Anyone with the slightest knowledge of the plot knows that Ben is about a murderous hyperintelligent mutant rat who assembles a rat army with the goal of wiping out humans. The humans slaughter the rat army big time and cage the survivors as lab animals, so in fact it has nothing whatsoever to do with “empathy for animals.” But it was sung by Michael Jackson, and Michael Jackson is famous and dead. In PETA’s book, that makes him fair game, unlike anything else in the animal kingdom. Maybe if PETA spent less time fame-whoring and more time correcting their own regrettable record of animal killing, people would take them more seriously. Or at least not want to skin them and turn them into motorcycle jackets.
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If God didn’t want us to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?
humans are also made out of meat
The point, Jamo, is that I once read that ‘saying’ and though it was one of the most beautiful pieces of twisted logic I had ever read.
Lighten the hell up.
PETA may have started off with the right ideals but it has gone way too far in the last few years. Why has an “animal rights” organization put down (euphemism for killed) over 21,000 animals in the last 10 years????