Another Clueless Activist on PETA’s Holocaust Nonsense
Sometimes it is amazing to see just how clueless animal rights activists can be. Here’s another letter, this time from animal rights activist Nancy Pennington, in response to an op-ed run by the Spokesman-Review (Washington) criticizing PETA’s “Holocaust On Your Plate” campaign (emphasis added),
Doug Clark says he has interviewed “several survivors” (unnamed) of the Holocaust in his “PETA stoops to new low with exhibit” (Aug. 7) piece.
I wonder if he has interviewed Elie Wiesel, probably the most outspoken and eloquent survivor of the Holocaust or the Nobel Prize-winning writer Issac Bashevis Singer, whose concept was the impetus for PETA’s campaign.
Both of these humanitarians liken the treatment of animals raised for food to the Holocaust and support PETA’s efforts to educate people about the similarities of these horrors.
If Clark finds this campaign offensive, I find his trite and glib dismissal of many prominent Jews unconscionable.
Earth-to-Nancy: Wiesel has publicly stated that PETA’s comparison of the killing animals for food and the Holocaust is “wrong,” and Wiesel was angered that PETA used a photo that included him as a young prisoner at Buchenwald (where Wiesel’s father died).
Can anyone guess how much respect PETA granted this vegetarian Nobel Prize winner? (Hint, PETA spokespersons told at least one newspaper that the idea of apologizing to Wiesel for using his image had never come up).
Source:
Prominent Jews agree with PETA. Nancy Pennington, Letter-to-the-editor, Spokesman-Review (Washington), August 17, 2003.
Tags: Nancy Pennington, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals