Palin to PETA: Drop the Snowball or We'll Sue! December 23, 2008

Posted by Pulin Modi at December 23, 2008 2:33 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 14 ) | TrackBack

Liz posted this on the main PETA blog. I just had to share with all of you, too.

This morning, PETA's Policy Department received a Scrooge-like phone call from someone purporting to be from Gov. Sarah Palin's office threatening legal action against us if we don't play ball—or, actually, stop playing ball. Why are Ms. Palin's peeps so mad at PETA? Well, if you've played our Holiday Snowball Fight game recently, you may know. The game asks players to pick up a virtual snowball and take aim at 2008's biggest animal foes, from Colonel Sanders to the Trollsen twins to Alaska's own Sarah Palin. But guess what, Sarah? We've checked with our legal team, and they say that it's "protected parody," or "fair game"—so the game stays! After all, we're throwing snowballs, not shoes.

In real life, the moose and other animals Ms. Palin blows to smithereens don't stand a chance. But, hey, our game is virtual and nonviolent. To be honest, I'm not quite sure why Sarah is so mad about the game anyways. Wielding a gun and decked out in a sexy bikini and pageant ribbon, I'd think she'd be quite proud of how PETA's portrayed her.

Though this game is just a bit of harmless payback, Palin's real-life hunting habit is no joke. Palin not only guns down big moose but also supports aerial hunting of wolves—she even proposed putting a bounty of $150 on their heads. Wolves aren't even overpopulated in Alaska. The sole reason for the bounty would be to boost the numbers of moose and elk so that hunters will have more living targets for their blood sport. Pathetic.

P.S. Governor Palin isn't the only fantastic figure in the game, so if you haven't had the chance to play, check it out!

Snowball Fight with Colonel Sanders and Sarah Palin? December 16, 2008

Posted by Rachel-O at December 16, 2008 3:47 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 5 ) | TrackBack

I love December. This might be because my birthday's this month, but it's also because I love snow. Sadly, it doesn't snow much here in Norfolk, Virginia, so I have to do a bit more to get into Christmas cheer now that I don't live in Detroit where there's a blizzard almost every year. I'm not quite sure where to get a fake snow machine, and I've thought about creating a giant pile of vegan marshmallows to jump into, but it just isn't the same—and that may be a bit crazy (or delicious, hmm...).

Great news for me—and you, our new holiday snowball fight e-card combines two of my favorite things: snowball fights and fighting animal abusers, of course!

I think you guys can agree that there's probably no better way to introduce your friends and family to animal hating losers like Donna Karan, Sarah Palin, the Trollsen Twins, and Colonel Sanders than in an e-card where you to get to lob a snowball at their faces!

Make sure you're on the peta2 Street Team and you'll even get 500 points for forwarding this to your friends! We'll automatically credit your account in a few weeks—don't even worry about letting us know!

Comment below and let us know which animal abuser you're looking forward to fighting the most!

Turkey Pardon Fail, Starring Sarah Palin November 21, 2008

Posted by Marta at November 21, 2008 10:55 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 18 ) | TrackBack

The moose-hunting, fur-wearing, pro-aerial-wolf-gunning governor is in the news again. On Thursday, Sarah Palin visited a turkey farm in Wasilla for the traditional pre-Thanksgiving turkey "pardoning." Now, most people probably don't think about exactly how the turkeys raised for Thanksgiving dinner every year meet their maker. But not to worry. Sarah has that under control. In this video, while responding to a reporter who asks about her post-election plans, Palin talks about how she wants to "promote a local business" and do something that won't "invite criticism." While turkeys are being slaughtered. Behind her. ON CAMERA.

Was that one of those "gotcha" questions, Sarah? Because it seems to me that showing the bloody reality of slaughter is just about the worst thing you could do to promote this business. Some people just won't want to eat turkey after watching—especially when this happened the day after PETA released new undercover video from the world's leading poultry-breeding facility. In that video, workers stomp on turkeys' heads, punch them, and bang their heads against metal scaffolding.

This is a country of people who love animals—in fact, 97 percent of Americans believe that farmed animals deserve to be protected from abuse. The more that people are confronted with the ways that animals who are raised for food suffer—from the moment they're born until the moment they're killed—the more that people will start thinking about giving vegetarian meals a try. And then the factory farming industry will need a bigger bailout than the "Big Three."

-Dan

P.S. Sarah Palin should take a cue from our own "President Bush," whose turkey-pardoning this year really was a "mission accomplished."