PETA Becomes Self-Parody
You literally cannot make this stuff up. I posted a couple of days ago about a harmless, if exceedingly gross, promotion that Six Flags Great America was having for Halloween. A person could earn a pass good for an automatic cut to the front of the line on all the rides in the park. All one had to do to earn the pass was eat a live Madagascar hissing cockroach. Ok, it's gross and silly, but really not much in the great scheme of things. Well, until now.
PETA is protesting cruelty to cockroaches.
A spokeswoman for the animal rights organization says the contest at the amusement park's FrightFest is "gratuitously cruel."
The park in Gurnee, Ill., is joining other Six Flags parks in offering unlimited line-jumping privileges to anyone who eats a live Madagascar hissing cockroach. The bugs are up to three inches long.
The contest begins next month.
Amusement park officials are defending their menu choice. Great America spokesman Jim Taylor says the bugs are nutritious, high in protein and fat free.
Cockroach, the really, really other white meat. PETA, never all that sane to begin with, has achieved cartoon status.
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By Black Jack, Monday, 25 September , 2006 @ 3:49 pm
They’ll be after ol’ Cal Worthington next. He would go on TV and promise to eat a bug if you’d buy a car from him. And, if PETA ever finds about his dog spot, well, they’ll go postal.