I don’t know what’s going on. I just watched a Cops where a guy got caught with a big old roach in his ashtray, plus a little scale, and the officer just wrote him a ticket. Didn’t humiliate him or anything. WTF?
Ahoy, fellow bloggers! Yourish.com has designated today International Eat an Animal for PETA Day. PETA’s new ad campaign makes a direct correlation between the Jewish holocaust and eating meat, featuring side by side pictures of inmates at Buchenwald and chickens in cages. Stunning. Just as Elie Wiesel was stunned and unhappy to find that he was in the picture of the inmates.
“They even have my picture here,” Wiesel said and expressed his surprise as he looked at the ad. “They shouldn’t do that.”
So to arms (and drumsticks, and steaks, and lobster tails), fellow bloggers! Send PETA a letter. You can use this text that I shamelessly lifted from Yourish –
Dear PETA,
I found your new ad campaign, “The Holocaust on your plate,” offensive and outrageous. But I don’t expect your organization to suddenly develop any sense of tact or human decency, so I thought I’d tell you what your campaign has wrought:
March 15th has been designated “International Eat An Animal For PETA” day. On that day, I’ll be chowing down on a juicy steak, or chicken, or perhaps I’ll have lobster—fresh, of course, chosen from the tank specifically for me. Maybe I’ll have a plate of ribs at my local barbecue restaurant. Then there’s that great seafood restaurant with the poached salmon and the delicious crabcakes. I could take my family there.
America’s a free country, and you have the right to say what you want, no matter how offensive I think it is. But as a result of your insensitivity to those millions of people who died in the real Holocaust, and to the survivors and their descendants, I and my family will show PETA the same kind of insensitivity.
And have a great, meat-filled dinner, while we’re at it.
Chew on that.
Mail it to one of the following:
PETA
501 Front St.
Norfolk, VA 23510
Tel.: 757-622-PETA (7382)
Fax: 757-622-0457
info@peta.org
United Kingdom:
PETA Europe Ltd.
PO Box 36668
London
SE1 1WA
England
Tel: 020 7357 9229
Fax: 020 7357 0901
info@petauk.org
Thanks to Hestia for the heads-up.
Yesterday I decided that in order to keep peace in the house, we shouldn’t talk about politics anymore.
Tonight we went to eat at Taqueria Arandas. I had the carne asada plate, which is a thin slice of marinated skirt steak, grilled and served over avocados and tomatoes, with fried cactus (nopalitos) and sauteed green onion on top, all with a liberal side helping of Spanish rice and refried beans. I drank a huge glass of horchata, rice milk that’s been sweetened and flavored with vanilla. For dessert I had a Pulparindo, which is dried tamarind pulp (like fruit leather), that’s been flavored with sugar, salt, and peppers, so it’s like a sour, salty, sweet, spicy fruit rollup.
Then on the way home we almost ran over an armadillo that was trying to get across the street.
Why do I even bother to shop anywhere else but Steinmart? I placed a huge order with an online store and got it in the other day; all but three items were grossly undersized. Like the bust was 8 inches smaller than it should have been. Steinmart always has really nice clothes for really low prices. I’m stocking up for my April and May trips.
I’m thinking about smuggling booze onboard the cruise ship. In a mouthwash bottle. Heh. I’m so 16 years old.
