This is from the June 2002 issue of Citizen magazine:
If sharks attack humans out of revenge, as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals suggested last year, what makes a deer crash into a car?
State governments that allow hunting of course.
At least that's the story PETA is sticking to in threatening to sue the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife over an accident that somewhat serendipitously involved a pair of animals-first activists. The duo was driving a PETA-owned vehicle, in fact, when they broadsided a deer that darted out onto the New Jersey Trunpike.
The crash -- in which only the deer was seriously hurt -- would never have happened, a PETA lawyer later wrote, if the state didn't (a) allow and (b) actually encourage hunting. So enraged was the group about the accident that it "saw red -- and it wasn't just the blood of the animal fleeing hunters' guns" that the activists barreled into.
We can only guess the state responded with, well, a deer-in-the-headlights stare. After all, when the accident occurred, hunting season was still a few weeks off.
If sharks attack humans out of revenge, as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals suggested last year, what makes a deer crash into a car?
State governments that allow hunting of course.
At least that's the story PETA is sticking to in threatening to sue the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife over an accident that somewhat serendipitously involved a pair of animals-first activists. The duo was driving a PETA-owned vehicle, in fact, when they broadsided a deer that darted out onto the New Jersey Trunpike.
The crash -- in which only the deer was seriously hurt -- would never have happened, a PETA lawyer later wrote, if the state didn't (a) allow and (b) actually encourage hunting. So enraged was the group about the accident that it "saw red -- and it wasn't just the blood of the animal fleeing hunters' guns" that the activists barreled into.
We can only guess the state responded with, well, a deer-in-the-headlights stare. After all, when the accident occurred, hunting season was still a few weeks off.



