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PETA Enlists Kids To Tell First Lady Easter Egg Policy is Rotten
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Posted on 04/17/2014 4:58:52 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

PETA Enlists Kids To Tell First Lady Easter Egg Policy is Rotten

ABC News

By Alexander Mallin 5 hours ago

While the annual White House Easter Egg Roll celebration isn't one typically embroiled in controversy, three young girls are letting First Lady Michelle Obama know they aren't happy about it.

Well, three young girls on behalf of PETA, or the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

"I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed," says one girl, in the YouTube video released by the group this week titled, "Michelle Obama, We Need to Talk."

After some deep sighs and shaking of heads, the girls acknowledge that previous White House celebrations have involved thousands of hard-boiled eggs. The first lady's child critics say they would prefer the use of plastic ones instead.

As one girl asks, "If all the other first lady's jumped off a bridge, would you?"

The video is a part of a push by PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk to cut eggs from next Monday's 136 th annual Easter egg roll, which Newkirk links to in a letter to the First Lady.

"I hope that after hearing their message, you will implement a new, humane tradition at the White House by using synthetic eggs that don't require any animal to suffer," Newkirk says in the letter.

Newkirk even takes a jab at Mrs. Obama's "Let's Move" Initiative, saying "cruelly sourced, unhealthy eggs" are "primary contributors to some of our nation's top killers, including heart disease and strokes."

The girls claim in the video the White House uses "over 7,000 eggs every year" in its celebration.

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Can't make it up........
1 posted on 04/17/2014 4:58:52 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

If all the other first lady’s jumped off a bridge, would you?”

We can only hope....


2 posted on 04/17/2014 5:02:19 PM PDT by CrappieLuck
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To: Sub-Driver

Stupid animal activists. Shut up and do your Easter yoga.


3 posted on 04/17/2014 5:02:23 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: Sub-Driver

If you really want to mes with animal rights activists, demand they stop killing innocent fruits and vegetables.


4 posted on 04/17/2014 5:04:25 PM PDT by matt04
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To: CrappieLuck

LOL, I thought the same thing.


5 posted on 04/17/2014 5:07:49 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Sub-Driver

People for the Ethical Treatment of A-Holes (those members of Peta)


6 posted on 04/17/2014 5:19:18 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Sub-Driver

They care about killing eggs, but don’t give a shit about killing human babies.


7 posted on 04/17/2014 5:19:58 PM PDT by onthegulf
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To: Sub-Driver

The precipice over which our republic hangs is illustrated not by the idiocy of the complaint that eggs are harmed. History is replete with idiots. It is revealed by the fact that ABC News covers it, and heads all over the land nod in agreement.


8 posted on 04/17/2014 5:30:37 PM PDT by Sharkfish ( "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Sub-Driver

So PETA now wants chickens to stop laying eggs?

I envision a lot of constipated fowl.


9 posted on 04/17/2014 5:32:01 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: Sub-Driver

A study says Vegans can get mental illness from lack of Vit B12 ,PETA proves it


10 posted on 04/17/2014 5:40:11 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Sub-Driver

Really? What, pray tell, do they have to say about the BLM’s treatment of Bundy’s cattle?


11 posted on 04/17/2014 5:45:31 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I honestly don’t understand the point here. The eggs we eat or dye are not fertilized, they would never turn into a chick. So what exactly is the suffering?


12 posted on 04/17/2014 7:22:53 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: Sub-Driver

STFU PETA... thank you.


13 posted on 04/18/2014 6:20:42 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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