PETA has formally requested that Wisconsin change its state drink from milk to beer..... for health reasons... among others.
They actually asked the Green Bay Packers to change their name to the Green Bay Six-Packers... No, I'm NOT kidding!
Here's PETA president Ingrid Newkirk's letter to Yassar Arafat, after a Palestinian donkey laden with explosives was detonated (much to the chagrin of Arafat, the donkey was the only victim): "Your Excellency, We have received many calls and letters from people shocked at the bombing in which a live donkey, laden with explosives, was intentionally blown up. All nations behave abominably in many ways when they are fighting their enemies, and animals are always caught in the crossfire. The U.S. Army abandoned thousands of loyal service dogs in Vietnam. Al-Qaeda and the British government have both used animals in hideously cruel biological weaponry tests. We watched on television as stray cats in your own compound fled as best they could from Israeli bulldozers. Animals claim no nation. They are in perpetual involuntary servitude to all humankind, and, although they pose no threat and own no weapons, human beings always win the undeclared war against them. If you have the opportunity, will you please add to your burdens my request that you appeal to all those who listen to you to leave the animals out of this conflict?''
Arafat must have got a good chuckle at that. Given all his troubles, it must be nice to get a little comic relief.
