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Wow. OK. At an appearance onstage at South San Francisco Day in Orange Memorial Park on Saturday, a PETA member got up on stage and smacked a guy dressed as Ronald McDonald in the face with a vegan custard pie.
PETA tells SFist:
The protest is part of PETA's campaign to convince McDonald's to switch to an improved slaughter method that would eliminate the worst abuses of chickens, including having their legs slammed into shackles, often breaking them, and being scalded to death.
This brings to mind a bone-shatteringly brilliant story care of Vogue editor Anna Wintour. In an effort to get back at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, "[Wintour] and Vogue publisher Ron Galotti once retaliated for a [PETA] protest outside the Condé Nast offices during the company's annual Christmas party by sending down a plate of roast beef." Really, this woman can do no wrong. We digress.
Check out more images from today's McNugget protest at PETA.org. Another shot from Saturday's creamy protest waits for you after the jump.
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it makes perfect sense to take out your problems with MdD's on some poor dope who's burning hot in a costume for $10/hr.
yeah it does suck for that particular guy, but I'm pretty sure this was an effective protest.
Effective in what way? Do you think those children have any clue why someone dressed in a chicken costume came up on stage and pied Rondald McDonald? Do you think their parents will explain to them why this happened and what the protest was all about? You have to be kidding me if you think this idiotic prank changed anyone's mind. Please, anyone who "gets" it already agrees with PETA. For those who don't, it just reconfirms in their minds that PETA is a dangerous group of yahoos.
I don't eat at McDonalds for the very reasons PETA has against them. There are better ways to get your message across than scaring/wierding out a bunch of children.
This reminds me of a stunt the Yes Men pulled where they posed as executives of Union Carbide to say that they were going to give millions of dollars to the victims of the Bhopal tragedy. Then, after they got the hopes of the victims up, they revealed it was a giant prank to make UC look bad.
How does alienating the very people you're trying to reach make your prank/stunt an effective way to expose injustices?
well i don't have as much.... emotion tied up in this as you appear to, but it seems like PETA's raison d'etre is to gain awareness for their ridiculous cause.
Much as I personally disagree with their tactics, they have (by doing stunts like this and those weird things w/ naked women) been able to get companies (like KFC) to change their practices.
so that's what I meant by effective. it raises awareness of the issue they want covered, and has been part of the change they want to see happen.
But yeah, I don't think this is the only way to do what they want...
They are effective at making headlines, but they are also effective at making their entire movement (including those who don't like their tactics) seem ridiculous. People with no particular opinion on the subject think that anyone involved with animal rights has to be either be a hippy-dippy PETA weirdo or a crazed ALF operative.
It's only ridiculous to meateaters. I find it hilarious - especially with children in the audience. Where's Focus on the Family when you need them?
Meateaters are the people they want to win to their point of view.
agree. bullies.
Oh.
It was more fun when they did it to Willie Brown.
These kids will definitely not eat at McDonald's now.
their blog is called "The PETA Files." yikes. say those words out loud to yourself 3 or 4 times.
http://blog.peta.org/
"Why him, and not me?!?!"
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their blog is called "The PETA Files." yikes. say those words out loud to yourself 3 or 4 times.
http://blog.peta.org/
every time these idiot stage this crap I go eat a big steak, buy leather shoes and take my staff to Mc DONALDS for lunch.
When will PETA go after the Fox NY anchor for saying 'Keep fucking that Chicken!'
PETA combines the annoying bullshit of frat boys and sorority chicks of an elite private university with the worst parts of smug, ultraleft activists (also at an elite private university) whose holier than thou attitude would make the Ayatollah blush.
STFU, pls, PETA.
PETA combines the annoying bullshit of frat boys and sorority chicks of an elite private university with the worst parts of smug, ultraleft activists (also at an elite private university) whose holier than thou attitude would make the Ayatollah blush.
STFU, pls, PETA.
PETA combines the annoying bullshit of frat boys and sorority chicks of an elite private university with the worst parts of smug, ultraleft activists (also at an elite private university) whose holier than thou attitude would make the Ayatollah blush.
STFU, pls, PETA.
Fuck PETA.
Go hug a rabid raccoon you senseless morons.
Oh no! Not vegan pie!
But really though - there's a children's book called That's Why We Don't Eat Animals. If you're into being a vegan/vegetarian, it's a much better approach to "educating" kids on the ethical treatment of animals. Putting a pie in poor Ronald's face ends up just looking like a planned stunt to the kids, and rallies more support for the old clown. PETA should keep kids out of their stunts.
who the hell still eats at this place anyway. learn to cook people!
I'm not sure cooking people is the solution either.
I guess PETA saves the chicken-suit gigs for their members who aren't smokin hot models.
PETA=COWARDS
At the next PETA rally, someone should slam a pie full of raw meat in one of their faces
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