PETA are once again making real asses of themselves – literally.
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Animal rights activists will reportedly go naked outside five Australian embassies around the world in a bid to force Australian sheep farmers to stop a controversial farming practice.The US-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said demonstrations would be held outside Australian missions in Washington, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and Sao Paulo.The action is aimed at stopping the practice of mulesing, in which slices of flesh are cut from the rear ends of lambs to prevent flystrike or the infestation of flesh-eating maggots.“We don’t mind showing a little of our behinds if it will save lambs from having chunks of flesh hacked off of theirs,” US-based PETA campaigner Matt Rice told the Australian national news service AAP from the United States.PETA suspended the campaign last month but is now resuming it after Australia’s major wool producing groups did not agree to ban mulesing by 2010.Rice said eight naked PETA protestors would appear at Canberra’s Washington embassy on Tuesday painted in the colours of the Australian flag.“We will take the protest around the world in an effort to alert the world to the cruelty that goes on Down Under,” he said.PETA’s call to boycott Australian wool has won support from retailers such as Timberland and Abercrombie and Fitch, as well as rock star Chrissie Hynde and Hollywood’s Alicia Silverstone.
While I am opposed to cruelty against animals, exposing us all to the sight of those bums is cruelty against humans.
