PETA asks Pocono Raceway to sell only vegan food at track

Pocono Record ^ | 8/6/2010

[Born Conservative]

One group thinks a solar farm should only be the start.

Now the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals is urging Pocono Raceway in Long Pond to expand its eco-friendly ways and sell only vegan food at the Long Pond track.

To try and entice the raceway, PETA spokesman Dan Shannon said the group would send bikini-clad women — the group’s “Lettuce Ladies” — to hand out faux chicken sandwiches.

“Serving healthy and delicious vegan fare ... would mean that animals, your customers, and the planet could all end up in the winner’s circle,” the letter reads.

Track spokesman Bob Pleban said the track would not comment on the letter, only saying that vegan food is not part of the raceway’s green plan.

Pleban said the track solicited comments about the letter on its Facebook page (www.facebook.com/poconoraceway). An overwhelming majority of fans were against such a move, and many criticized PETA for not pushing for vegan choices, instead asking for a full-vegan, non-meat menu.

Read the letter online at www.PoconoRecord.com.

[Question Liberal Authority]

Aren’t these people pro-choice?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I’m gonna order me a hot dog made from real dogs.

[Tribune7]

I'd imagine vegan would taste a little like pork but I still think it would be gross to eat.

I'm sure you could do a lot with it though -- sausage, barbecue, cold cuts, pickle the feet etc.

[poobear]

This would go over soooo well at the Daytona 500!

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Sounds like a good way for Pocono to lose its NASCAR dates...

[PATRIOT1876]

Processed soy is not as good for you as chicken meat

[PATRIOT1876]

Vegans at NASCAR?

Seems like that would go over about as well as a vodka stand at an Amish barn raising.

[Average Al]

“Serving healthy and delicious vegan fare ... would mean that animals, your customers, and the planet could all end up in the winner’s circle,” the letter reads."

Yeah, that choice of foods would boost attendance big time! ;-)

[Average Al]

How about have PETA girls picking up debris on the tracks aunatural?

[Ev Reeman]

Hope they tell PETA to go suck a pig.

[Average Al]

How about (having) PETA girls picking up debris on the tracks aunatural?

opps.

[thethirddegree]

How about free lettuce sandwiches?

[sport]

As far as I am concerned,peta can go fornicate with themselves.

[TheRightGuy]

DING DING DING ... the new winner for shortest list in the world, “Vegan NASCAR Fans”

[PapaBear3625]

Aren’t these people pro-choice?

Exactly. They don't want to have the place offer a choice, they want to restrict choice to only what they want. I would have no problem with them asking the place to offer vegan food IN ADDITION TO meat-based food.

[Peter W. Kessler]

During green flag laps.

[PATRIOT1876]

People Eating Tasty Animals

[Cheerio]

Why do the wacky lefties always want to impose their will on all the rest of us? And yet they claim to be oh sooooo tolerant.

[Ev Reeman]

When they say they are tolerant, what they really mean is that they are tolerant of their own needs and wants and nobody elses.