When PETA Goes Overboard:  Don't Mess With the Turkey!  
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Rob Zombie - who, despite what PETA says, is a lot scarier than cooking a turkey. 

I like PETA's message, but boy, do they go overboard.

"Go Cold Turkey," PETA says on their site GoVeg.com, "No, we're not talking about smoking - we're talking about the addiction to eating animal flesh.  November is the perfect time to kick this nasty habit and go vegetarian!"

This Thanksgiving, they have a "Go Cold Turkey" campaign that is definitely gruesome to watch - but strangely, in their page about Rob Zombie hosting PETA's "Holiday Hotline," there is almost humor.  Well, at least to me.

"Calling Butterball's Turkey Talk Line and listening to tips about how to boil, broil, roast and toast the bodies of gentle, smart, and social birds sounds more like the plot of an upcoming horror film than cooking."  Wait...yeah, no it doesn't.

"So PETA - not willing to sit back and let this be the only option for callers this holiday season - teamed up with musician and horror-movie legend Rob Zombie to record PETA's 2007 Holiday Hotline.

"Zombie, who is best known for hugely popular horror masterpieces like The Devil's Rejects, stopped eating our feathered friends years ago.  While Zombie doesn't have a problem with people getting hacked to bits on the big screen, when it comes to the way animals are treated in real life, it's a different story entirely."

The article continues here...I would not recommend pressing play on the video on that page if you have eaten turkey today (or even if you haven't, really).

Another thing that's ticked me off about PETA as of late?  They are supporting the bans against pit bulls in "an effort to crack down on dogfighting and prevent attacks by pit bulls."  Though they state that they "support legislation that bans the breeding of pit bulls just as we support any spay/neuter legislation as the most effective way to combat the tragic companion animal overpopulation problem," pit bull breeders are not the only ones affected by pit bull bans - entire cities are told by lawmakers that they cannot have a pet pit bull at all, which makes you wonder if PETA wants to eliminate the domesticated animal altogether.

   

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