We Got Into Harvard! September 16, 2009

Posted by Ryan at September 16, 2009 9:24 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 4 ) | TrackBack

As you may have seen in our long-running and much-adored "Dumb Comments" series, meat-eaters can sometimes have a hard time coming up with much of an argument in favor of eating animals (aside from everyone's favorite crusher—"it's tasty"). So we were curious—can America's best and brightest do any better?

To find out, we set up a debate on the topic at the top-ranked college in the world—Harvard University. Working with the school's resident veg-heads from the campus vegetarian society, we arranged for a representative from the Harvard debate team to face off against PETA vice president Bruce Friedrich, to answer the question "Is Eating Animals Ethical?"

Ahead of the event, peta2 was everywhere on campus. In the student newspaper, walking around campus in a chicken costume, and even stopping by the dining halls at dinner time to remind students to attend the debate!

The result? A packed room, with more than 250 students ... well, I'll let the pictures do the talking:

Now, I know what you're wondering. Who won?

Well, as the Harvard Crimson newspaper reported, "Throughout most of the debate, though a slim majority of the packed Science Center audience admitted to eating meat, [the debate team] conceded [the PETA VP's] arguments about the immorality of being a carnivore in today's world. PETA seemed downright reasonable." In other words, we made an unbeatable case for vegetarianism. :)

Pretty cool, eh?

So what do you say to convince meat-eaters to change their ways?

Human BBQ at Princeton University! November 21, 2008

Posted by Ryan at November 21, 2008 3:11 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 8 ) | TrackBack

As frequent visitors to peta2 may already know, the Princeton Animal Welfare Society is the faaaantastic student group at Princeton University.

This week, the group wanted to organize a demonstration to highlight their "College Veg Pledge" campaign, which encourages students to go vegetarian for one day, to see how simple and delicious it is!

They knew it had to be attention-grabbing, since Princeton students are a busy bunch. Did someone say "human BBQ"?

The event was perfectly timed to coincide with an excellent opinion piece written by group members in the student newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, so that everywhere students looked, they saw something about vegetarianism!

Looks like someone must have checked out our "How to Start a Buzz on Campus" video... :)

Go PAWS, go!

- Ryan!