Oct15
Freedom From Oppression for ALL at New High School!
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I think this is wonderful news—but hey, we at PETA have always been against all forms of oppression. That's why our director of media relations, Michael McGraw, is writing Chad Weiden, the assistant principal of Social Justice High School (and likely principal of the new Pride Campus), with an important suggestion: Pride Campus should have an all-vegetarian cafeteria.
"It is only because of prejudice that animals killed for food on today's factory farms suffer miserable lives and nightmarish deaths," Michael writes—and it's true! Even though animals love, fear, mourn, and rejoice just like we do, their feelings are completely discounted. They are kept in cramped, filthy warehouses where they are beaten and abused, and at slaughter, their throats are cut or they are boiled alive—just because they don't happen to be exactly like us.
Michael's letter quotes Steven Simmons, a PETA staffer and gay rights activist who died of AIDS in the early '90s, who wrote, "It's time for us to end this hierarchy of who has the right to live, who deserves not to suffer, who should be respected, [the idea] that there's a limit to the amount of compassion that we can have for our fellow creatures." We're hoping that Assistant Principal Weiden will encourage his students to have compassion for today's most vulnerable population—the animals—by keeping Pride Campus meat-free.
You can read Michael's letter to Mr. Weiden here.
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Just because they care about people's rights, it doesn't mean that they'll care about animals' rights. I don't think they will. :(
Posted by: Lotte | October 15, 2008 09:51 AM
Both Steven Simmons' quote and Michael's letter-beautifully written!!
Posted by: lynda downie | October 16, 2008 12:21 AM
Great idea! I wish I had gone to an all vegetarian high school!
Posted by: Tania | October 16, 2008 10:45 AM
OMG, if they followed the suggestion to become all veggie, I would move to Illinois just to send my daughter there!!!!
Posted by: Mary | October 16, 2008 04:25 PM
Gays are not always the victim! I had a gay boy break my nose for no other reason then I wore all black & listened to heave metal!Yeah poor him my blood got all over his shoes as he kicked me in the face...ALL children should be safe not just one group.
Posted by: Crystal | October 19, 2008 07:20 PM