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Yesterday, I posted PETA’s hypocritical defense of veteran vegetarian singer Morissey, who was seen eating at a steakhouse. PETA claimed they’re down with dat, since steakhouses have great vegetarian food, and Ingrid Newkirk, PETA’s head, admitted she’s been to steakhouses.

Now it turns out that Morrissey was not eating in a steakhouse after all, and in fact wouldn’t be seen dead at one.

Turns out Morrissey — who is a vegetarian — wasn’t actually at STK on Monday, but at the Belmont, the joint next door. Moz’s rep tells TMZ that he not only didn’t go to STK — he would never go to a steakhouse! Meat IS murder. That kinda leaves PETA hangin’…

Burn!

More delicious hypocrisy from our friends at PETA.

PETA is full of bull — or at least they like hangin’ with people who are full of it.

The animule rights organization called us out for calling Morrissey out yesterday. You see, vegetarian Morrissey, who wrote the song/album, “Meat is Murder,” chowed down at STK — a hip steakhouse in West Hollywood. PETA says it’s ok for hard-core veggies to eat at a steakhouse because — and we quote — “Steakhouses have some of the best vegetarian food around.” Oh yeah, gotta love that Kobe cauliflower! Maybe Morrissey gets a pass ’cause he’s a believer.

PETA big cheese Ingrid Newkirk tells TMZ she’s got no beef with steakhouses — she’s been to the STK in New York herself.

We’re wondering if it’s ok for Pam Anderson to shop for spandex at Fred the Furrier…

UPDATE: Michael McGraw from PETA just called us to say he was upset by our story, adding, “PETA is fine with vegetarians dining at steakhouses. It’s just like shopping at stores like Whole Foods that also sell meat, because it’s good to show proprietors they can make money by selling veggie options.” Um, OK. What about getting mashed potatoes at KFC?

Even by PETA standards, this is asinine.

Sheriff’s officials were astounded Thursday by a letter requesting the man accused of murdering his girlfriend and possibly participating in cannibalism be placed on a vegetarian diet to keep him from being “involved in any senseless killing” while incarcerated.

The letter was faxed to the Smith County Sheriff’s Jail from the national headquarters of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Thursday morning.

“You have to be kidding me, right?” was his initial reaction to the news of the letter asking the jail to feed Christopher Lee McCuin, 25, a special vegetarian diet and no meat.

McCuin is jailed for the murder of 21-year-old Jana Shearer and authorities have said, in previous stories, that when McCuin was taken into custody there was an ear boiling in a pot of water on the stove and a plate on the kitchen table with what appeared to be human flesh and a fork.

“It is up to you to prevent McCuin from contributing to any more suffering and death by placing him on a healthy, humane vegetarian diet,” the letter by PETA Vice President Bruce Friedrich reads.

In a phone interview with the Tyler Paper Thursday, Friedrich responded the letter was serious and was not intended to be funny nor take away from the brutal death suffered by Ms. Shearer.

“Like humans, animals are made of flesh, blood, and bone. They have the same five senses that we do, and they have the same capacity to experience suffering and fear. And all animals share the desire to live their lives free of pain and to avoid a violent death,” he said.

Friedrich said his organization hoped to help Smith County prepare a nutritional vegetarian menu and possibly help organize a menu for the entire jail population.

But Smith said that will never happen. “I told (Gary) Pinkerton, the jail administrator, McCuin would be treated like any other prisoner and would be fed like everyone else,” he said. “The Texas Jail Commission mandates how we feed the prisoners and if I fed him differently I would violate his rights and PETA is asking me to break the law and I won’t do that.”

When asked how eating a hamburger compared to cannibalism, Friedrich said all meat is from a corpse. He further stated he believes McCuin could become violent if he ate meat and could kill.

“Only in a culture where people routinely kill and eat living, feeling beings would anyone even think to kill and eat a human loved one,” he said.

Mind you, I guess I’m not that surprised, given what I know about Mr Friedrich. You may recall I have corresponded with him before, after he started sending me PETA updates. After I let it be known I disapproved of PETA’s antics, Mr Friedrich justified each one of them.

For instance, here’s his take on the infamous PETA letter to Arafat asking that he not use donkeys for suicide bombing missions.

Our mission, as an animal rights group, is to speak up for animals. I thought that the letter made it clear that a lot of people do very horrid things to animals in the midst of wartime. As you surely must understand, raising other issues would simply find the letter tossed into the trash. It was probably tossed there anyway, but by not bringing up other issues, ones where we know his stance, perhaps we could effectively discuss the issue of bringing animals into a conflict not of their making. The practical effect, I think you’ll agree, is fewer Israeli deaths, as well, since using donkeys will be easier for them than using human beings. It seems to me that the letter will help decrease the level of terror somewhat, if it’s taken seriously, and that an outright attack on him would only decrease any likelihood of success.

And here’s his take on the “Holocaust on Your Plate” campaign:

Re: the Holocaust project, I know you won’t agree with us on that either, but please know that the comparison was not ours, but Isaac Bashevis Singer’s, and that many Holocaust survivors and family members of survivors agree that “never again” must transcend the species barrier.

As I’ve said before, bark raving mad.

From the Department of Don’t Even Bother Asking.

Customs officials in the Philippines have seized inflatable sex dolls meant to be used for an international campaign against animal cruelty, an animal rights group said.

Although one can understand why PETA believes animals are on the same level as humans. So would you if you hung out exclusively with PETA activists.

Hamas’s al-Aqsa TV is at it again.

Following Farfour the Mouse’s Islamic domination mini-series, it’s Nahoul the Bee who this time goes in for some animal cruelty.

Palestinian Media Watch have captured the footage and posted it to their YouTube channel.

A warning applies for those who find animal cruelty distressing: don’t watch the video. For those that can stomach it, the video is here.

PETA has finally woken up to the barbarism, as reported in Ha’aretz:

International animal rights group PETA on Wednesday condemned a “shocking and sickening” video clip produced by a Hamas-run TV station and posted on the YouTube Web site that showed the abuse of animals.

PETA said it would protest to the TV station over the program that showed animals being abused as part of a program aimed at teaching children not to hurt animals.

The clip prompted scores of complaints from viewers worldwide.
“It’s shocking and sickening,” said Martin Mersereau, manager of the domestic animal abuse division of U.S.-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

Mersereau said PETA was drafting a letter of protest to the Gaza-based Al-Aqsa television station.

A letter of protest?

“Oooh, that’s a worry”, Hamas must be thinking.

Given that Hamas preachers have previously labelled Jews as “apes and pigs”, would that also count as animal cruelty?

Do you think that Israel could get the powerful PETA organisation on its side?

Nope, nor do I.

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Just when you thought PETA could not get more asinine…they get more asinine.

The animal activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has written a letter to Norm Goldstein, the editor of the AP stylebook, asking that the book be changed so that pronouns referring to animals always be “he,” “she,” and “who.” AP responded by noting that the stylebook only uses “it” and “which” if the animal’s sex has not been established and the animal’s name is unknown.

PETA says that in a society that is recognizing animals rights more and more, the pronouns were what animals “deserved,” and the letter from Anna West, Director of Written Communications, noted that many magazines had already made the switch. The legal system, as well, recently elevated animals to a status beyond “property,” and now holds that abusing animals is a crime worse than vandalism.

“The public now recognizes that whales, who sing across oceans; great apes, who share more than 98 percent of our DNA; sheep, who can recognize as many as 50 faces after not having seen them for two years; and pigs and chickens, who can learn to operate switches in order to control heat and light in factory-farm sheds, are feeling, intelligent individuals — not objects,” the letter states. “Our language should reflect this.”

AP spokesman Jack Stokes pointed to the current AP stylebook guidelines, saying that the news organization already does what’s being requested. “It’s very specific,” he said.

Below is the exact wording of the “animals” entry in the AP book:

“Do not apply a personal pronoun to an animal unless its sex has been established or the animal has a name: The dog was scared; it barked. Rover was scared; he barked. The cat, which was scared, ran to its basket. Susie the cat, who was scared, ran to her basket. The bull tosses his horns.

“Capitalize the name of a specific animal, and use Roman numerals to show sequence: Bowser, Whirlaway II.

“For breed names, follow the spelling and capitalization in Webster’s New World College Dictionary. For breeds not listed in the dictionary, capitalize words derived from proper nouns; use lowercase elsewhere: basset hound, Boston terrier.”

I will concede, though, that it is very likely the average animal is of greater intellect than the average PETA activist (hat tip: Shy Guy).

When dozens of chickens went missing from a remote West Bengal village, everyone blamed the neighborhood dogs.

 

But Ajit Ghosh, the owner of the missing chickens, eventually solved the puzzle when he caught his cow - a sacred animal for the Hindu family - gobbling up several of them at night.

 

“We were shocked to see our calf eating chickens alive,” Mr Ghosh said.

 

The family decided to stand guard at night on Monday at the cow shed which also served as a hen coop, after 48 chickens went missing in a month.

 

“Instead of the dogs, we watched in horror as the calf, whom we had fondly named Lal, sneak to the coop and grab the little ones with the precision of a jungle cat,” Gour Ghosh, his brother, said.

Former Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson has taken the shears to her ugg boots.

 

The Hollywood pin-up credited with turning the Australian boots into a global fashion phenomenon denounced the footwear on her website.

 

In a truly blonde moment, the actress has suddenly realised that the boots are made from shaved sheepskin.

 

And mother-of-two Pammy, a staunch animal rights activist who has been a PETA member for a decade, says she is racked (get your minds out of the gutter -ed.) with guilt that women worldwide have followed in her footsteps.

 

“People like to tell me all the time that I started that trend ‚Äì yikes!” Anderson wrote. “I used to wear them with my red swimsuit to keep warm, never realising they were skin.

 

“Well, let’s start a new trend. Do NOT buy uggs! Buy Stella McCartney or Juicy boots.”

I’m getting rid of our Uggs - I feel so guilty for that craze being started around Baywatch days - I used to wear them with my red swim suit to keep warm - never realizing that they were SKIN! I thought they were shaved kindly?

Pammy won’t be ditching her trademark look altogether, but says she is designing her own version using synthetic materials.

Some animal lovers aren’t shedding any crocodile tears for Steve Irwin.

 

The Aussie naturalist, known as the Crocodile Hunter, was killed last week by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. But the folks at PETA are neither surprised nor upset by his passing.

 

“It comes as no shock at all that Steve Irwin should die provoking a dangerous animal,” PETA’s Dan Mathews tells The Scoop. “He made a career out of antagonizing frightened wild animals, which is a very dangerous message to send to kids.”

 

Does Irwin’s career as a naturalist impress the animal-rights group? Says Mathews: “If you compare him with a responsible conservationist like Jacques Cousteau, he looks like a cheap reality TV star.”

Question: What brings a smile to the face of a PETA activist?

Answer: A good, old fashioned tiger mauling.

This article made me smile a bit:

A tiger mauled a well-known animal performer at a Moscow circus during a show, circus officials said on Sunday.

Doctors used nearly 100 stitches on Artur Bagdasarov for slash and puncture wounds, but the wounds were not life-threatening and the trainer was conscious, according to a statement posted on the performer’s internet site.

Bagdasarov was trying to organise several tigers into a pyramid yesterday when a tiger named Caesar suddenly swiped at his shoulder, said Mikhail Bagdasarov, a relative and co-animal trainer.

 ”This lasted only 10 seconds. The tiger attacked him on his shoulder, pulled him under and tried to bend him, started to maul him with his paws,” Mikhail Bagdasarov said in televised comments.

I am beginning to suspect that these guys don’t love animals as much as they hate humans.

PETA make fun of little people in this blog post.

Now if it was the dwarf eating the hippo…

The PETA bloggers are looking for a catchy new slogan.

Well, we’ve decided to retire “Question Authority”, and we need your help coming up with a new original replacement. Here are the ideas we have so far:

    peta2: Chicks Dig Us
    peta2: Ethics Are Crucial
    peta2: Be The Change
    peta2: It’s Kind Of A Big Deal
    peta2: Liberation

Sorry, but those don’t it for me. Here are some of my own suggestions:

Your suggestions in the comments. And if you put your suggestions in the comments at the PETA blog here, you can win some amazing prizes:

The top three idea-givers will get free “Question Authority” stencils, a CD or two from some of the bands we work with, and some other miscellany.

Wow! With prizes like that, what are you waiting for?