Oct21
Like Elvis Said: Don't Be Cruel
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I guess you could just sit right down and cry, but we have a better idea for salvaging Elvis' former home. While the ranch is on the market, PETA would like to rent it and transform it from a heartbreak hotel for cows into a "Don't Be Cruel" (to cows) education center for kids.
Kids deserve to know that the animals who are turned into hamburgers and blue suede shoes are living, thinking, feeling beings who deserve more from life than to end up on a dinner plate. In the U.S., more than 41 million cows are killed for the meat and dairy industries every year. You'd have to have a heart of stone to be unmoved by their suffering.
So, Mr. Cattle Rancher—I beg of you—will you take us up on our offer? It's now or never*.
Posted by Liz Graffeo
*I've put the titles of nine different Elvis songs in this post—how many can you identify?
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Don't be surprised if the most generous vegetarian of all, Paul McCartney, eventually purchases land to be used as a farm animal sanctuary !
Posted by: Brien Comerford | October 21, 2009 08:33 PM
You won't win this one: I think you believe you can use Elvis' likeness for your idea; however, there's no way his estate would allow it, and you won't (either by your volition or theirs) be able to pay the royalties to do it. This BTW, includes using "Don't Be Cruel."
Give it up PETA.
Posted by: Mel | October 22, 2009 10:18 AM
that would be a very good thing.
Posted by: chevy jones | October 22, 2009 12:19 PM
Mel,
You can't copyright a song title. So if PETA is just naming their education center "Don't Be Cruel," they're perfectly and legally entitled to.
Posted by: Mike Quinoa | October 22, 2009 09:48 PM
Lemme see,
All Shook Up
Heartbreak Hotel
Don't Be Cruel
Blue Suede Shoes
It's Now or Never
Those are the only Elvis songs I recognize.
Great idea, by the way.
Posted by: lynda downie | October 22, 2009 10:57 PM