AR-News: (CA)'What were these people thinking?'

[Animalconcerns]

VANCOUVER -- The latest billboard campaign by a militant animal-rights
organization that specializes in radical tactics has shocked relatives of
the slain and missing women from the Downtown Eastside.

The ad by the U.S.-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals shows
a young woman and a pig and the slogan, Neither of Us Is Meat.

The billboard appears to refer to the recent disclosure by B.C. medical
health officer Perry Kendall that meat from the pig farm owned by Robert
Pickton, who is charged with 15 murder counts in the missing women's case,
may have contained human remains.
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The billboards went up this week in Toronto and Edmonton. Next month, PETA
plans to put up 1,000 posters of the ad in Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver.

PETA campaign director Bruce Friedrich said that the point of the ad is to
remind people that animals experience the same pain and suffering as humans.

"Canadians . . .should think about the fact that there appears not to be a
difference in taste between pig flesh and human flesh," Mr. Friedrich said.

full story:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040407/PETA07/TPNational/Canada

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