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.
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Former US Vice-President Al Gore is writing a book called The Path to Survival which will be a sequel to his 2006 Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth. The book will follow on from the film, which was a hard-hitting documentary about the reality of climate change, and cover solutions to the potential catastrophes for mankind which may befall as a result of increasingly unpredictable weather patterns and global warming.
I'm not sure if we should be amused or horrified that one of the best-known green female icons is a cartoon character, but there's no denying that Lisa Simpson is a great role model for young girls with a passion for the planet. OK, so it does get her ridiculed by her own family, bullied at school and ignored by most of her home town, but we know that Lisa's always right in the end, and if we'd just listen to her words of wisdom, everything will work out OK.
