Gore 'too chicken to go veggie' says PETA
It's not been a good week for Al Gore. First the spammers hit; now it seems that those lovely people at PETA are out to get him, too. They're branding Gore a hypocrite for continuing to eat meat while campaigning for action on climate change, and they're doing it in true PETA style: yesterday a flock of mansized poultry congregated outside parliament holding placards calling Gore a 'chicken' for not going veggie, and PETA's blog tells the rest of the story here.
Of course, whether or not Gore renounces hamburgers is unlikely to have any individual effect, but you'd think he might want to set an example, particularly after the UN revealed that meat farming produces almost 40 percent more greenhouse gases than the entire global transport system. Yet Gore has remained uncharacteristically shtum on the issue of going veggie, despite initial gentle persuasion from PETA (they initially cooked him a 'faux fried chicken' dinner to coax him into making the switch) before reverting to type and launching headlong into the familiar animal-suited humiliation-antics they seem to love so much.
Gore's own Alliance for Climate Protection states that giving up meat is "the single most effective thing you can do to reduce your carbon footprint," yet bizarrely omits "going vegetarian" from its seven-point pledge designed to identify easy steps that we can take as individuals to help end the climate crisis. If you feel strongly that the Alliance should amend their pledge to include it, you can sign a petition here to get it changed.
