Berkeley PETA types hold funeral for frozen chicken (Video)

Berkeley PETA types hold funeral for frozen chicken (Video)

Subtitle this “Requiem for a dead chicken.” Yes, it has much of the stuff of which spoofs are made, starting with the too-nerdy-to-be-true tool in the business suit and ending with the dozen-or-so zombies holding up signs reading, “It’s not food, it’s violence.”

But if you need evidence that this protest is in earnest, consider its provenance. It was held in Berkeley, Calif., home to the Milky Way Galaxy’s largest collection of liberal loons. Consider moreover some of the commentary, especially the line, “Next to us is the body of a mother, who bellowed in grief as she was dragged to the kill floor.” The words are uttered mournfully as a dead fryer is plucked from a supermarket poultry case and placed in a tiny coffin.

The group behind the demonstration and video is Direct Action Everywhere, whose stated mission is

to empower activists to take strong and confident action wherever animals are being denigrated, enslaved, or killed, and create a world where animal liberation is a reality.  We use creative nonviolent protest to tell the animals’ story. We are not afraid to push boundaries and even polarize the debate.

In other words, it’s PETA on steroids.

The group had its first mention at LU last month when organizer Kelly Atlas tearfully told a restaurant full of customers the story of how her “little girl” was systematically tortured only to reveal at the end that the “little girl” was a chicken.

(h/t Weasel Zippers)

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Howard Portnoy

Howard Portnoy

Howard Portnoy has written for The Blaze, HotAir, NewsBusters, Weasel Zippers, Conservative Firing Line, RedCounty, and New York’s Daily News. He has one published novel, Hot Rain, (G. P. Putnam’s Sons), and has been a guest on Radio Vice Online with Jim Vicevich, The Alana Burke Show, Smart Life with Dr. Gina, and The George Espenlaub Show.

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