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Regardless of your take on animal rights, there’s no denying that Dan Matthews—the luscious Vice President of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)—in Sponge Bob boxers is alluring. Last week, when a near-naked Matthews and five fellow near-naked protesters staged a pillow fight as part of PETA’s “rather go naked than wear fur” campaign, they attracted a horde of students, press and local residents to the Square. Yet in spite of the event’s popularity...
While the rash dismissal of PETA’s cause is unwarranted, the common accusation that PETA undermines animal rights with its wild antics is downright ignorant. With over 800,000 members worldwide and an operating budget of $21 million—86 percent of which is earmarked directly to fighting animal exploitation—PETA is currently one of the most effective lobbying organizations in the world. Its anti-fur protests, animal cruelty investigations and “reality television” vans that travel around the country depicting abused animals get front-page coverage in various publications?...
...plight of other animals we eat and wear is no less horrifying. In speaking up on behalf of downtrodden creatures that feel pain but can’t communicate it, PETA is pursuing a just and noble cause...
Although PETA’s achievements are impressive, some of its means are troublesome. Getting naked in the Square and dressing Playboy models in lettuce bikinis in a campaign promoting vegetarianism is distasteful at best. But by selling its cause with sex, PETA isn’t recreating the wheel. Like Budweiser, Versace and U.S. dairy farmers—whose “Got Milk” ads feature scantily clad female celebrities—PETA is capitalizing on a culture numb to almost everything except sex. In defense of her participation in last week’s love...
With dedicated and compassionate PETA activists playing these rules to their advantage—and constantly making animals’ lives more tolerable—it seems that the only fools are those who belittle PETA’s cause and its successes...