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It’s IEATAPETA Day.

Go out and enjoy that tasty chicken or beef or whatever else you’re going to have today.

Or, as Bart wouldn’t say: Have a cow, man.

Yes, PETA is filled with very tall three-year-olds who really crave attention. Get a load of their latest attention-getting project: Selling George Clooney’s sweat. (H/T: Kat)

Just when we thought we’d seen it all from PETA — the animal rights organization known for high-profile celebrity ads — President Ingrid Newkirk has come up with this: George Clooney-flavored tofu.

In a letter sent to the actor, Newkirk said that PETA has been offered his gym towel (obtained right here in D.C.!) and wants to use his sweat to create Clooney tofu that will “spare animals from being killed for the table.” She went on to explain that the science is pretty simple, like “making artificial chicken flavor for instant gravy.”

Of course, it’s simply a publicity stunt. As for Clooney, he’s firmly in the “Ew!” column:

“As a mammal, I’m offended,” he told us yesterday through his rep.

March 15th is International Eat A Tasty Animal for PETA Day. Chow down on real food, not imaginary food made with sweat. (Ew. Ew. Ew.)

Tricia Helfer is one of the naive actors posing for PETA.

Alas.

Tricia and the very handsome Mr. Nix appear beside the tagline “If you have to be human, at least be humane,” in an homage to the infamous Cylon character that has helped make Tricia a household name.

An animal lover, Tricia took part in this campaign because she wanted to help spread the word. “I really just thought that this campaign ‘Angels for Animals’ is something that I feel is a good message to get out there, that they are part of the family and you should treat them as part of the family.” So say we all!

The above is an example of how to write a really bad article. Oh, how cutesy—”So say we all.”

Look, I don’t care if she has a Maine Coon cat. The woman is missing a few brain cells if she’s on the PETA bandwagon.

Remember, March 15th, next Sunday, is International Eat A Tasty Animal for PETA Day. Piss PETA off. Eat meat. Or dairy products. Or even tofurkey, if you’re a vegan. It isn’t that we don’t like animals. We do. We don’t like PETA and animal rights “activist” tactics.

That’s right, folks, it’s that time of year again. Time to go out and eat animal products for breakfast, animal products for lunch, and animal products for dinner. Why? Well, animal products are good for you. They’re tasty. And PETA really wants you to stop eating meat.

This year, you can follow the IEATAPETA Day festivities via a brand-new EATAPETA Facebook group.

So they do stupid things. Like run truly offensive ad campaigns? Or run a shelter with a 97% kill rate. Or wear KKK costumes to protest a dog show. (Yes, really.)

Hey, they started it: six years ago, I wrote this.

PETA has started yet another offensive ad campaign. This one really reaches bottom—they are using Holocaust terminology, quotes, and pictures to liken the “slaughter” of animals to the slaughter of the Jews by the Nazis.

I’ve already received a letter from a child of Holocaust survivors who is, of course, extraordinarily offended. But here’s the thing: PETA is known for this kind of outrageous publicity stunt—and that’s what it is, an outrageous publicity stunt—and while I am also offended and outraged, there is absolutely nothing we can do that will make PETA change their ad campaign. I’m sure they knew exactly what they were doing, have a plan in mind, and, if they withdraw the campaign, will do it according to their deadlines and their decisions.

So let’s make up our own outrageous publicity stunt. Let’s designate Saturday, March 15th, as International Eat an Animal for PETA Day. Everybody set the date on your calendar, and either go out and enjoy a great steak, or cook one at home. Or cook up some chicken or fish or anything else that PETA wouldn’t want you to eat.

Let’s not forget that Ingrid Newkirk’s will says she wants people to make purses out of her skin after she dies. And I can’t find an original source for this, but I would not be surprised to find that it is true: Newkirk said:

“The leather sofa and handbag are the moral equivalent of the lampshades made from the skins of people killed in the death camps.”

That’s why this keeps going every year. People are tired of extremist nutjobs masquerading as activists. There are plenty of organizations out there that truly have animals’ best interests at heart. PETA isn’t one of them. So go out and have some meat, eggs, and dairy products two weeks from today. Anything that a hard-core vegan won’t eat works for EATAPETA Day. And frankly, if you’re a hardcore vegan and still hate PETA, have some tofurkey in our honor.

Yes, I’ve gone and done it: I’m on Facebook, and thanks to a suggestion from a reader, so is EATAPETA Day.

I think that’s the link. Click it and let me know.

I have a bit of work to do. If there are any volunteers to help run the group, I’m happy to oblige.

Yes, I’m going to have details for EATAPETA Day 2009. That’s Eat A Tasty Animal For PETA (just to get back at them for all the annoying things they do).

I’ve been asked to start a Facebook group. That would entail my actually, you know, joining Facebook.

I really, really don’t want to. But I may have to.

When you think that cheap and revolting propaganda cannot get any cheaper and more revolting, here come PETA puppets – a pitiful result of accidental cross-breeding between STD and Ebola – with a new idea. Read about it here. See it below:

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I almost wish to send the Greyhound man a set of kitchen knives and the PETA membership list.

Don’t you?

Time for an emergency EATAPETA day.

Hat tip: Graeme.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews.

It’s International Eat a Tasty Animal for PETA Day.

Go ahead. I’m having dairy for breafkast, and meat for dinner, which will be in the company of all six members of the G. family.

Join us. Well, from wherever you are, not at the restaurant. It’s not big enough for all of us.

Tomorrow is the sixth annual International Eat a Tasty Animal for PETA (EATAPETA) Day.

Tired of their offensive ad campaigns? Well, have a steak on them. Tired of the hypocrisy of an animal rights organization that has a shelter with a 97% kill rate? Eat more chicken. Don’t eat meat? Dairy products work. So do eggs. Anything that a hard-core vegan won’t eat works for EATAPETA Day.

Hey, they started it.

PETA has started yet another offensive ad campaign. This one really reaches bottom—they are using Holocaust terminology, quotes, and pictures to liken the “slaughter” of animals to the slaughter of the Jews by the Nazis.

I’ve already received a letter from a child of Holocaust survivors who is, of course, extraordinarily offended. But here’s the thing: PETA is known for this kind of outrageous publicity stunt—and that’s what it is, an outrageous publicity stunt—and while I am also offended and outraged, there is absolutely nothing we can do that will make PETA change their ad campaign. I’m sure they knew exactly what they were doing, have a plan in mind, and, if they withdraw the campaign, will do it according to their deadlines and their decisions.

So let’s make up our own outrageous publicity stunt. Let’s designate Saturday, March 15th, as International Eat an Animal for PETA Day. Everybody set the date on your calendar, and either go out and enjoy a great steak, or cook one at home. Or cook up some chicken or fish or anything else that PETA wouldn’t want you to eat.

Let’s not forget that Ingrid Newkirk’s will says she wants people to make purses out of her skin after she dies. And I can’t find an original source for this, but I would not be surprised to find that it is true: Newkirk said:

“The leather sofa and handbag are the moral equivalent of the lampshades made from the skins of people killed in the death camps.”

Yeah. That’s why we eat meat on March 15th.

Plus, it’s tasty.

I’m willing to drive to Fredericksburg on EATAPETA Day, but no further. I’ve been driving to Company in Northern VA a lot lately, or driving to NorVA to meet friends and coworkers on a Saturday night. In fact, if I go to NorVA on March 15th, that will be the third Saturday in a row I will have driven to somewhere in either DC, Maryland, or NorVA.

Nope. Fredericksburg is as far as I go next Saturday night. Those of you from NorVA who want to Meat-up with me are going to have to drive a bit, too. We’re looking for a good place for a group that isn’t too expensive. Suggestions welcome.

This post is late this year, but March 15th is still International EATAPETA Day.

That’s right, it’s the day when we piss off the hypocrites at PETA who have the highest kill-rate out of any animal shelter in Virginia; who send their people to lie to vets and shelters and steal animals that they then euthanize, and who create hugely offensive ad campaigns that compare the slaughter of food animals to the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust.

Yep. It’s EATAPETA Day.

On March 15th, we make sure we eat meat, fish, or dairy products—all the stuff that pisses of the PETA vegans—in protest of PETA’s deceptive and execrable tactics.

You can check out my back posts by clicking on the EATAPETA category, which include cute pictures of kids.

Here’s the the original IEAFPD post:

PETA has started yet another offensive ad campaign. This one really reaches bottom—they are using Holocaust terminology, quotes, and pictures to liken the “slaughter” of animals to the slaughter of the Jews by the Nazis.

I’ve already received a letter from a child of Holocaust survivors who is, of course, extraordinarily offended. But here’s the thing: PETA is known for this kind of outrageous publicity stunt—and that’s what it is, an outrageous publicity stunt—and while I am also offended and outraged, there is absolutely nothing we can do that will make PETA change their ad campaign. I’m sure they knew exactly what they were doing, have a plan in mind, and, if they withdraw the campaign, will do it according to their deadlines and their decisions.

So let’s make up our own outrageous publicity stunt. Let’s designate Saturday, March 15th, as International Eat an Animal for PETA Day. Everybody set the date on your calendar, and either go out and enjoy a great steak, or cook one at home. Or cook up some chicken or fish or anything else that PETA wouldn’t want you to eat.

Create a Meat-up in your own neighborhood. I’m having an early Meat-up with Elisson and SWMBO (I so love that title for a Mrs. I want to be one of those someday) this coming Saturday, as they’re going to be in the area. And I fully expect to be eating meat (it’s what’s for dinner) with some friends next week.

Go and enjoy, and then come back here and tell me all about it.

Looks like PETA’s kill rate is higher than any animal shelter in the country. One caveat: I need to see the original report. The Center for Consumer Freedom is a group with an anti-PETA agenda that gets its money from interest groups whose interest is generally the opposite of the subject of its articles. That said, if this is true, PETA has a 97% kill rate. Yes, ninety-seven percent.

In official report filed by PETA itself shows that the animal rights group put to death nearly every dog, cat, and other pet it took in for adoption in 2006. During that year, the well-known animal rights group managed to find adoptive homes for just 12 animals. Not counting pets brought to PETA for spaying or neutering, the organization killed 2,981 of the 3,061 “companion animals” it took in. According to VDACS, the average euthanasia rate for humane societies in Virginia was 34.7 percent in 2006. PETA’s “kill rate” was 97.4 percent.

I don’t have the time today, but I’ll try to find the actual report and see how much of the above is true.

A PETA worker is going to be tried for felony theft for stealing a foxhound. She says she was rescuing a stray. Except, well, she took a tracking collar off the dog, and also ignored the fact that the dog’s name and owner’s phone number were on the other collar.

Courtland, VA – An animal rights advocate who said she was rescuing a stray will be prosecuted on a felony theft charge for loading a deputy sheriff’s hunting dog into a van and driving away.

A judge on Tuesday allowed the case to proceed against Andrea Florence Benoit, 25, who contends she was worried about the dog’s welfare and only wanted to return it to its owner.

The Chesapeake woman picked up the fox hound while working in Southampton County for Norfolk’s People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Prosecutors dropped charges against another PETA worker in the van.

A motorist who saw the women pick up the dog called Southampton County Deputy Sheriff J.T. Cooke Jr., an animal control officer for the county. Cooke found the van a few minutes later and discovered his Walker hound in the back.

Cooke testified that he had let out several of his hounds the night before to chase foxes, and one failed to return. The dog carried dye markings of numbers on its side and “JT” on its hip and wore a neon yellow collar bearing Cooke’s name and cell phone number, the deputy said.

The animal also had been outfitted with an orange collar fitted with an antenna that could track the animal for three to four miles.

The tracking collar was found near the side of the road where the dog was picked up.

Oops. Apparently, though, she was following PETA policy. Yes, that’s right, PETA tells its workers to steal animals and not contact their owners directly.

The women were following PETA policy by not directly trying to contact the dog’s owner through the phone number on the other collar, Benoit’s lawyer, Stephen D. Benjamin, said. They intended to call their office so PETA could reach Cooke, he said.

While General District Judge Robert B. Edwards said he had no doubt that Benoit believed she was doing the right thing, “the right thing in this case was a felony.”

I like that judge. Of course, it’s going to be plea-bargained down to a misdemeanor, just as the case of the PETA workers taking animals from vets, killing them, and throwing them into a dumpster was.

This is your reminder that it’s International Eat A Tasty Animal for PETA Day.

Meat and animal products: It’s what’s for dinner.

Just got back from my lunch with Sarah and the twins. We went to Brock’s, a place we all know and love, and the site of our EATAPETA lunch from three years ago. And we took some pictures.

Lunch: What’s on my plate is the grilled chicken with plenty of tasty sides from the buffet. I could live on Brock’s hush puppies.

Max proves he’s just as photogenic today as he was three years ago. Maybe even more so. That’s grilled cheese, his lunchtime favorite, on his plate. One of the four EATAPETA food groups was consumed: Dairy products. (That would be meat, dairy, fish, and eggs, for the newbies here.)

Rebecca mugs for the camera. This, of course, is her natural state: Mugging for the camera, and for, well, everyone. And while there’s no meat on her plate, she was drinking chocolate milk, thus fulfilling EATAPETA rules.

Sarah’s got the other white meat, as well as a plate filled with goodies. Max decided to get in on the picture as well, which was fine by us.

We happened to be at the safest place in Chesterfield during the lunch hour. There were three Sheriffs there while we were eating lunch, and a fourth drove up towards the end of our meal. The Brock’s buffet lunch is a big area draw. PETA would downright hate it. A worthy place for our EATAPETA lunch!

Steak is on the menu at both our houses tonight.

This is your reminder that it’s International Eat A Tasty Animal for PETA Day.

Meat and animal products: It’s what’s for lunch.

This is your reminder that it’s International Eat A Tasty Animal for PETA Day.

Meat and animal products: It’s what’s for breakfast.

Don’t forget, this Thursday, March 15th, is the fifth annual International Eat a Tasty Animal for PETA (IEATAPETA) Day, the day on which we annoy vegans the world over, and PETA, which is right here in my state of Virginia.

This year, Sarah and I are taking the twins to lunch at Brock’s again, so we can take pictures and contrast and compare.

Go to PETA Is Full of Crap for meat-up, er, meet-up information.

From the original IEAFPD post:

PETA has started yet another offensive ad campaign. This one really reaches bottom—they are using Holocaust terminology, quotes, and pictures to liken the “slaughter” of animals to the slaughter of the Jews by the Nazis.

I’ve already received a letter from a child of Holocaust survivors who is, of course, extraordinarily offended. But here’s the thing: PETA is known for this kind of outrageous publicity stunt—and that’s what it is, an outrageous publicity stunt—and while I am also offended and outraged, there is absolutely nothing we can do that will make PETA change their ad campaign. I’m sure they knew exactly what they were doing, have a plan in mind, and, if they withdraw the campaign, will do it according to their deadlines and their decisions.

So let’s make up our own outrageous publicity stunt. Let’s designate Saturday, March 15th, as International Eat an Animal for PETA Day. Everybody set the date on your calendar, and either go out and enjoy a great steak, or cook one at home. Or cook up some chicken or fish or anything else that PETA wouldn’t want you to eat.

From last year’s Shire Network News podcast:

The Holocaust is regularly invoked in improper and offensive ways. The one that hit my outrage button the hardest three years ago was an ad campaign titled “The Holocaust on Your Plate.” It was created by the radical animal rights organization, People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals, or PETA.

The PETA ad campaign compared the slaughter of chickens for food to the slaughter of six million Jews by the Nazis. They traveled the country with a series of billboards that used Holocaust imagery next to images of animals. They lied to the American Holocaust Museum to obtain permission to use these pictures in their ad campaign.

It’s a well-known fact that PETA has always chosen sensationalism in their ad campaigns. They’re usually stupid and offensive, but this campaign caused enough pain that a child of Holocaust survivors wrote me a letter asking if there weren’t something we could do about it. That’s why I created the first International Eat an Animal for PETA Day (IEAPD).

The fourth annual celebration is coming up again on March 15th. On that day, I ask everyone who thinks PETA is offensive and over-the-top to eat meat or animal products like cheese in at least one meal. It’s the exact opposite of what PETA wants, and is our little protest to their offensive ad campaigns. Our theme (besides eating lots of meat that day) is “don’t get mad, get even.” IEAPD is gaining strength and notoriety every year.

Don’t get me wrong. I am utterly against animal cruelty. But I am also utterly against cruelty to humans, and especially against the misuse of Holocaust imagery to get a point across.

During the first IEATAPETA, a few friends and I actually gathered outside PETA headquarters in Norfolk with protest signs. It was a Saturday. Nobody was there. But we were.

For my second IETAPETA, Sarah and her children joined me for lunch at Brock’s. Her daughter Rebecca refers to all beef as “Yummy cow.”

There are plenty of posts from the past. Just Google IEAPD and this site.

I would like to be perfectly clear. Animals like this are not on the menu. In fact, this particular animal (and her brother) will be treated to tunafish on March 15th. It’s a good thing to include your pets in International EATAPETA Day. PETA doesn’t like us having pets, either.

Don’t forget! And for you vegetarians out there, if you’re not strict vegetarians, there’s always cheese and eggs.

Why am I still doing this? Well, PETA is still offensive. When they stop, I’ll stop.

Update: I should just like to point out that Lair Simon and I have been publicizing EATAPETA for a while now. We couldn’t get any of the big guns to link us until today. Just sayin’.

Sarah and the twins and I went out to a local fast food chain, and we have the pictures (on Lair Simon’s PETA gallery) to prove it. If you want to submit your pictures, send them to Lair Simon. Be nice and cut them to 640×480 first.

Milk with breakfast, chicken for lunch, and corned beef for dinner. What was your menu like? (You can put that over on Lair’s, too.)

It’s the fourth annual International Eat A Tasty Animal for PETA Day.

Go on out and eat meat and dairy products.

As Alex Bensky says, today, if it didn’t have a mother, don’t eat it.

I had a tall glass of milk with breakfast, and I’m meeting Sarah and the twins for lunch. I believe fried chicken will be on the menu, as well as hamburgers.

Eat animals. Piss off PETA. That’s what EATAPETA Day is all about.

Scott Sloan is a hoot. He just told his audience that God told him to eat fish.

Well, the message is out in Cincinnati, apparently also known as Porkopolis. I suppose if I weren’t Jewish, I’d have known that nickname. However, I introduced him to Sarah’s daughter’s pet phrase for beef: Yummy cow.

In the meantime, EATAPETA Day starts in about 35 minutes. I’m going to go to bed. I suppose I should count sheep to help me sleep.

Don’t forget, it’s EATAPETA Day tomorrow. I’m going to be on the same radio station that interviewed me last year, but can’t get to my email to see if it’s streamed. It’s satellite, though. 11 p.m. EST, tonight. More details later.

In the meantime, go to Lair Simon’s and register your gathering.

Sarah and the twins and I are meeting for lunch, keeping with our EATAPETA Day tradition.

Where will you be?

Okay. I’m on between 11 and 11:20 p.m. Here’s the streaming audio.

Every time you think that PETA can’t get any more ridiculous, they do something like this:

FISH have feelings, too, according to the folks at PETA, who are taking aim at writer Josh Kilmer-Purcell. The author, whose best-selling memoir, “I Am Not Myself These Days,” chronicles his double life as an ad exec-cum-drag performer, was put on notice last week by the animal-rights group’s “Fish Empathy Project” for alleged cruelty to goldfish. As his whip-cracking alter-ego, Aquadisiac, Kilmer-Purcell donned a pair of clear plastic breasts filled with live goldfish. Says PETA: “It would be, for you, like living in a covered bathtub that’s constantly moving, tossing you around as you defecate in it. It’s filthy, painful and terrifying for these animals.”

March 15th: International Eat an Animal for PETA Day. Because they earned it.