PETA’s done it again, showing me that they’re not above low blows. Now, I’ve never liked PETA. Any organization that vehemently rails against animal euthanasia and encourages protests in front of animal shelters while at the same time euthanizing a sizable amount of animals in their own shelters deserves to be ridiculed. But it’s not just their hypocrisy; it’s also the fact that they seem to think everyone needs to be vegetarian or vegan, and they’ll go to any length to try and convince people.
So, I was walking around my college campus today and I come across a man in a chicken suit. I thought it was pretty funny…until I saw the sign he was wearing. It said “I am not a nugget.” This is actually a popular PETA ad campaign, put forward mainly by their “hip” teen site PETA2. The ads generally feature a cute-looking little baby chicken with the same words. Essentially, it’s a ploy to get people to think, “Oh no! That chicken is cute! I can’t eat it!” which is incredibly low. Of course, this sort of thing is nothing new to PETA, the group that brought you the “Meat causes impotence” commercial, which was (thankfully) turned down by CBS when PETA tried to air it during Super Bowl XXVIII.
Anyways, I am not a nugget? Well, not yet, you aren’t. I have every right to eat animals if I want to, and I’m not going to let PETA tell me otherwise. And while I defend their right to push their vegetarian agenda, I just wish they wouldn’t use unfair tactics to do it. Educate people about animal cruelty, yes, but don’t make it seem as if every farmer on Earth is the Marquis de Sade reincarnated. Seriously, animal cruelty doesn’t happen nearly as much as PETA says it does.
Ah, listen to me go on. I’ll stop now before I got into how PETA supports terrorists (oh, you didn’t know?) and all that other damning stuff. I like my meat perfectly fine, and no one’s going to make me give it up, least of all a man in a chicken suit.
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