Posted on 10/06/2019 1:35:03 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
"We were going to change the world together, but she took my last cupcake." — Esther the Wonder Pig
Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg took a break from her high-profile campaign against climate change this week to hang out with a fellow famous vegan and Earth lover in Ontario.
Only instead of handshakes, the meeting between the two influential figures involved a forehead pet and snout rub.
On Tuesday afternoon the 16-year-old and her father stopped by the Campbellville, Ont., animal sanctuary of Esther the Wonder Pig, a social media sensation with two books written about her and an upcoming feature film deal.
She was in Campbellville for several hours, met a bunch of their animals, fed Esther a cupcake and was able to just “relax and be a kid,” said Jenkins, who co-“parents” Esther and runs the sanctuary with Derek Walter.
Esther’s co-“dad” Steve Jenkins says Thunberg has been a follower and supporter of Esther’s for quite a while and recently asked to visit their property during her trip to Canada. Last week, Thunberg spoke about the dire state of the planet at a climate-change protest in Montreal, timed with similar marches across the country.
“Poor Greta and her father, they’ve absolutely been run ragged the last little while, as everybody knows,” said Jenkins, referring to the barrage of online criticism Thunberg has faced as she delivers her impassioned message on global stages.
“I think the reason that she follows Esther, and hopefully the reason that she came here, was just to get a little bit of a break. She didn’t have a whole bunch of people in her face and she was able to relax and smile and be 16.”
Jenkins said he and Walter chatted with Thunberg and found her to be “100 per cent on top of” her life. “She’s making her schedule, she decides where they go, when they go home, if they go home,” Jenkins said. “It’s incredible. She’s easily the most inspiring and driven person I’ve ever met, and the fact that she’s 16 just blows my mind.”
Have they made wedding plans yet?
I hope that pig emitted plenty of greenhouse gasses.
Appear to be related...
Hey, Greta! Bacon! It’s what’s for dinner!
Did Greta ask Esther to stop f@rting for the sake of the planet?
*SNORT*
SOME PIG!
Which one?
Esther looks thrilled
Great enjoyed being a kid and not having a lot of people getting in her face? She would like a life where she can be a normal teenager and not having the world get in her face?
Some jokes just write themselves. There is such a simple solution for Greta’s stress at being such a media sensation. I’m surprised they don’t take that one simple step to end all of this.
[Have they made wedding plans yet?]
Even Canadian pigs have standards........
Imagine being so delusional you are impressed by brattiness. She's bossing the adults in her life around and they're somehow impressed by it all.
I'd have her cleaning stalls and going the **** back to school. Oh, and shut up, silly teenager. You know very, very little.
What on God’s green earth is a pig doing inside, lying on a bed? People have gone stark raving mad. There was once a couple featured in our local paper who ran a high-end hotel for dogs. Unbelievable. VERY expensive furniture for them to lie on and leave in a furry mess, the best steak for dinner, etc. etc. They reasoned that if humans can enjoy this, why not dogs. Seriously, we’ve gone insane.
Who’s who?
I would have loved to have seen a Saturday Night Live type skit of her “how dare you” speech”.
Of course the liberal idiots and buffoons who run NBC and Saturday Night Live do not see Greta as a target of satire or humor. So we will never see such a presentation.
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