AR-News: (CA) Editorial: PETA goes too far

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

No stranger to controversy, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals 
(PETA) is at it again with an offensive new anti-meat billboard. 
The outdoor advertisement, which went up this week in Toronto and Edmonton, 
shows a young female model on one side, a close-up of a pig on the other, and 
the slogan "Neither of us is meat." 
It's a grotesquely insensitive reference to the case of accused serial killer 
and pig farmer Robert Pickton, who currently faces 15 charges of first-degree 
murder. Investigators have spent months sifting through his Port Coquitlam, 
B.C., property and have linked the DNA of 31 missing women to the site. 
Exploiting this tragedy to promote an anti-meat, pro-vegetarian message shows 
appalling disregard for the feelings of the victims' survivors. 
But PETA is unapologetic.

full story:

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article
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