It would seem that PETA isn’t getting the pushover they would want.
Animal rights activists have urged the mayor of Leicester to rename the city’s Pork Pie Roundabout.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have suggested calling the circular intersection Vegan Pie Roundabout instead.
PETA said it would inspire healthier food choices and celebrate Leicester’s connection to veganism.
So we should all dance to their tune because they say so. How we conduct ourselves and what we eat is none of their concern and we don’t need roundabouts used to hector us.
Mayor Peter Soulsby called any talk of changing the name of the roundabout “pie in the sky”.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you do it. Refuse and mean it.
Kate Werner, a campaigns manager for the organisation, sent a letter to the mayor about the name of the locally-famous roundabout.
Most offices have a filing cabinet that is ideally suited for such pompous correspondence. Usually round with the opening at the top.
She said: “This timely name change would inspire healthier food choices that help the environment, celebrate Leicester’s heritage, and prevent animal suffering.
“Encouraging people to eat plant-based could also help lessen the burden on Leicester’s already overstretched NHS.”
It is not up to the council to do this. The council is there to empty the bins, repair the roads and keep the streetlights working. It is not there to lecture us on our eating habits, just as it is not PETA’s place to do so either. No one voted for these insufferable activists and telling them where to get off is precisely the way to deal with them.
Mr Soulsby called PETA’s suggestion a “funny and quite clever way of drawing attention to themselves”.
He said: “There is no way we could change the name people have given to the library and the roundabout next to it.
“It has been known locally as the Pork Pie Library since it was built in the 1930s, thanks to its distinctive circular shape.
“Any talk of changing its name is just pie in the sky.”
Precisely.
H/T Ian J via email.
At last! A band of self-promoting fuckwits get the answer they need.
And the publicity they wanted.
There’s no way the suggestion was serious, it was just a publicity stunt. And it worked.
This is PETA. They don’t do humour. They are deadly serious in everything they do or say. You are being too generous here.
Well, sort of. My answer would have been shorter and far less polite.
…and I suppose Spaghetti Junction is cultural appropriation? *sigh*
The round filing cabinet has been superseded by the shredder now, much more satisfying.
Doesn’t PETA stand for ‘People Eating Tasty Animals’?
Petulant Eunuchs Targeting Anyone
I thought that you’d have something to say about that. PETA are the most loathsome organisaton on the planet, in my opinion.
Utterly vile with no redeeming attributes whatsoever. I despise the very ground they walk upon.
These are the same morons that think all aspects of the theory of evolution are cast-iron fact, but don’t question why humans have canine and incisor teeth.
How are they going to stop lions from eating antelopes, or spiders from dissolving their prey with acid, from the inside out?
They are also the bastards that have form for euthanising animals unnecessarily.
They also ran a poster campaign against wool. They actually thought that sheep were killed and skinned in order to produce wool. My first thought was, how difficult is it to do a bit of research ahead of your poster campaign? In fact, I’m pretty sure that they know full well how wool is produced but suspect that their imbecile supporters don’t. Either way they are kunts.
Spotted some years ago at one of their demonstrations was a placard which read “Stop killing fish for their fingers”.
PETA are so bad a lot of vegetarians can’t stand them.
They are as close to pure evil as anything this side of Richard Murphy in the contemporary intellectual scene
So, the P!ll0cks for the Extermination and Termination of Animals think their suggestion is “funny and quite clever”.
No. On both counts. Only someone who had their sense of humour surgically removed would think that. I’ve met a few vegans, and they have been the least funny people I’ve ever met.
Perhaps they could change their acronym to PETI (People with Extremely Tiresome Ignorance, pronounced Petty, since they are)?
I believe a deficiency of vitamin B12 can result in a humour bypass, as well as a susceptibility to silly ideas. But also, it leaves the sufferers without much energy, so they’re not a threat to normal humans.