# A worthy cause for PETA

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-worthy-cause-for-peta/218720>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 13, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-worthy-cause-for-peta/218720 "2003-12-13T03:06:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![cbtcad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/46a35a/32.png) [@cbtcad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbtcad)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-worthy-cause-for-peta/218720/1 "2003-12-13T03:06:34Z")

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I heard about this today and I thought it sounded odd enough that yall might be interested. I find the headline particularly funny myself.

[PETA hopes to ‘turn’ cannibal](http://www.news24.com/News24/Backpage/Offbeat/0,5583,2-1343-1347_1458613,00.html)

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**Author:** ![Palve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Palve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palve)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-worthy-cause-for-peta/218720/2 "2003-12-13T03:11:23Z")

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Hmmm…a sign-up page for a news service that seems to be running out of Zambia. Not so sure PETA would be interested…

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**Author:** ![cbtcad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/46a35a/32.png) [@cbtcad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbtcad)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-worthy-cause-for-peta/218720/3 "2003-12-13T03:32:49Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Palve \*  
> \*\*Hmmm…a sign-up page for a news service that seems to be running out of Zambia. Not so sure PETA would be interested… \*\*

Does the link not work? It works for me so I thought I had it right. Here let me try another site with the same story.

[PETA sends tofu and veggie burgers to cannibal](http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_846062.html)

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-worthy-cause-for-peta/218720/4 "2003-12-13T16:21:13Z")

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How utterly horrible! How can they think tofu is ethical treatment? That’s cruel and unusual punishment.

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**Author:** ![Palve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Palve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palve)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-worthy-cause-for-peta/218720/5 "2003-12-13T16:56:41Z")

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I love tofu. One of the joys of being vegetarian.

Oh, and as an unrelated side note, don’t fall into the trap of thinking all we vegetarians necessarily want PETA speaking for us (_I’m_ not disgusted by all meat, so long as it stays out of my mouth) or want to convert the entire world to vegetarianism like them. Honestly.