Posted on 01/13/2005 7:08:15 AM PST by presidio9
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals comes out against a lot of practices.
Wearing fur. Wool shorn from Australian sheep subjected to a process called mulesing. Considering fish food rather than friends.
The anti-animal cruelty organization even invokes God in a recent campaign targeting Latter-Day Saints, saying that factory farms and slaughter houses are "hell on Earth" and likening eating meat regularly to going against one's faith.
But apparently public indecency is OK.
Nudity has emerged as a common thread in the activist organization's tactics, dating at least to the 1990s' "I'd Rather Go Naked than Wear Fur," campaign featuring nude supermodels. PETA credits the skin baring with helping to bring fur sales to historic lows, according to video posted to its Web site.
A Connecticut woman has even been photographed around the region naked, save for body paint, pasties and a thong in PETA's name, protesting circuses. With her coating of tiger paint and not much else, the woman has appeared holding protest signs inside a cage.
The latest protests planned in the buff come in opposition to the famed running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. As a counter protest, for the fourth year PETA will stage its Running of the Nudes, planned for two days before the first day of the bull run in July.
"Take it off for the bulls," a promotion for the one-kilometer race implores.
Travel information specifically for the jaunt sans shirts is available on a specially established Web site, RunningOfTheNudes.com. The site reports that 200 activists from around the world have already registered, and that motor coaches from all over Europe have been arranged for those hoping to converge on Pamplona.
It may make for an unusual vacation, but there is at least one apparent benefit: attendees can pack pretty light.
Lol, Amen to that!
I still laugh thinking of Northern Exposure's " Running of the Bulls."
BTTT!!!!!!
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