Fact checking
I just found out that when PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) gave Bill Clinton their Person of the Year Award nine months ago, they estimated that his new vegan diet spared the lives of 200 animals a year. So, put another way: Are they saying that Bill Clinton ate 200 animals a year? I mean, I know the guy had an appetite, but this seems preposterous. I’m wondering if someone over there did inhale. And did any press, then or now, question this? This is roughly one animal every other day. That’s a lot of animals, so they must have been small. Was he picking robins out of their nests? Tossing baby chicks into his mouth like popcorn? What’s the deal with this?
August 19th, 2011 at 6:48 pm
PETA kills me, its not like Bill Clinton decided on some “ethical safe the planet basis” not to eat meat or dairy. The man has a heart second only to Dick Cheney’s that is likely to need serious reconstruction again sometime soon if he did not do something about his diet. Then PETA parades out some bogus number of animals lives he’s saving. I am a great fan of the former President, but the life he is concerned with saving here is his own. He knows it, We know it, and so does PETA!
August 20th, 2011 at 7:28 am
Well, of course, you have a to kill a chicken even if you only eat one drumstick off of it… Not that there aren’t issues w/PETA, but 200 animal lives saved may be low. Don’t you think he ate meat every day? Twice most days?
August 20th, 2011 at 8:56 am
Catherine, that’s still playing loose with numbers…Do I get credit for taking the life of a whole cow everytime I eat a hamburger ? Each hamburger weighs in at about 3oz prior to cooking. A cow weighs in at about 1000 lbs. It is not as though every time the former president wanted a meal, someone went out and killed an animal especially for him, and then disposed of the rest of the carcass as waste. For me it is not a big issue really. I still feel the bigger issue is the fact that Bill Clinton stopped eating animal products for his own health needs, and PETA is acting as though it was a philosophical departure that should be recognized.