People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) has once again come out of their cave to throw a few stones.
This time, at Punxsutawney Phil, the Groundhog who specializes in letting us know when it’s okay to plant some daisies without risk of a cold frost (also known as Spring). Ok, maybe they’re not throwing stones at Phil per se, but they are requesting that he be replaced by a robot.
Wait. What??
A robot?
Gemma Vaughan, an Animals in Entertainment Specialist with PETA, penned a letter to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club on Wednesday arguing that keeping Phil on display year-round is a “cruel” way to treat the animal. Blah….Blah…Blah!
“Make the compassionate decision to use an animatronic Phil and retire the live groundhogs who are used for Groundhog Day activities to a sanctuary,” Vaughan wrote in the plea. “Tradition is no excuse for cruelty.”
Bill Deeley, president of the Club, has called the request “crazy.”
“Phil is probably treated better than the average child in Pennsylvania,” Deeley said. “He’s got air conditioning in the summer, his pen is heated in winter … He has everything but a TV in there. What more do you want?”
PETA wants a groundhog, who can see his shadow, to be replaced by a robot that will have to be programmed to sense it’s shadow??? They’re so lame.
PETA? Go away. Please?
Here’s a very entertaining video on the subject:
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Wow. It doesn’t matter how many nearly-naked ladies they throw in their ads, everyone’s still going to think their crazy and that most of their battles are unfounded and blown out of proportion for no reason.
Speak for yourself. The day when we stop exploiting and abusing animals for our amusement is a long way off. And you are contributing to the continuing of it.
Well, maybe when PETA takes up arms of actual issues that matter, rather then irrelevant silly publicity stunts, more people will listen.