Reuters reports on the latest bone-headed idea from PETA:
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, no stranger to attention-grabbing campaigns featuring nude women, plans to launch a pornography website in the name of animal rights. The nonprofit organization, whose controversial campaigns draw criticism from women's rights groups, said it hopes to raise awareness of veganism through a mix of pornography and graphic footage of animal suffering. "We're hoping to reach a whole new audience of people, some of whom will be shocked by graphic images that maybe they didn't anticipate seeing when they went to the PETA triple-X site," said Lindsay Rajt, PETA's associate director of campaigns.
That leads PZ Myers to wonder:
I am trying to visualize the kind of people who would be drawn to a site featuring naked women and tortured animals"¦and no, those aren't the people I'd want to associate with. It sounds like it ...
