On January 1, a project of the Center for Consumer Freedom known as PETA Kills Animals (PKA)launched a contest asking people to vote on the craziest PETA campaign ever. And guess what the prize is? Free meat!
Voters are automatically entered for a chance to win a 12-month subscription to Butcher Box, a monthly meat delivery service. The contest ends January 31, 2019.
PETA is the infamous animal rights group whose kooky president Ingrid Newkirk once famously said, “A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy,” intimating that there is no difference between animals and humans. The group has also run some of the craziest advertising campaigns of all time. PETA has more than five million members and supporters and, in 2017, had a revenue of $44,609,539.
What’s interesting about this group that purports to love animals are the claims PETA actually kill animals. Lots of them, according to PKA, who cites evidence on its website along with corroborating government reports the group obtained by filing public records requests.
PETA — the group that doesn’t want you to eat turkey at Thanksgiving, advocates for the freedom of all circus animals, condemns pet ownership and wanted the Vatican to “give peas a chance” by going vegan and remove its leather seats from the popemobile — actually kills the majority of animals that come to its sponsored animal shelters.
Now, PETAKillsAnimals.com is bringing this fact to light with this fun giveaway. Voters must consider what's worse: Trivializing the Holocaust, or making light of sexual violence? Comparing modern farmers to Nazi concentration camps, or saying drinking milk causes autism? Those are just four examples.
In the contest there are 10 campaigns to choose from going back decades. PETA’s campaigns include attempting to rebrand fish as “sea kittens,” and its recent headline-grabbing criticism of common idioms.
“Over the years, PETA has come up with a lot of dumb campaigns that beg for press attention but don’t even do anything to help animals,” Will Coggin, managing director of PETAKillsAnimals.com, says. “That shouldn’t surprise anyone who knows PETA has killed over 40,000 animals at its headquarters. This contest is a fun way to showcase some of PETA’s worst campaigns. The winner, as they say, will be bringing home the bacon.”
I can’t think of a tastier way to stick a thumb in PETA’s eye, can you?
