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September 25, 2006

People Eating Tasty Cockroaches

Stunts like this are why PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) lacks credibility. Seems PETA has a problem with the way Six Flags Great America is planning to celebrate Halloween – by allowing unlimited line-jumps to anyone willing to eat a live Madagascar hissing cockroach.

PETA says eating live cockroaches is "gratuitously cruel." The park, looking equally ridiculous, defends itself by saying cockroaches are nutritious, high in protein and fat free – as if nutrition will be a factor in some 18-year-old's decision to eat a 3 inch long cockroach.

Getting upset over people eating cockroaches is as ridiculous as getting upset over people eating shrimp. And if the problem is that the bugs are being eaten alive, well, is there a more humane way to kill a bug than to crush it, which is what happens when you chew it up? PETA would get much further if it stuck to its message about the cruelty of animal treatment in the fur and commercial meat production industries and left silly stunts like this alone.

Posted by Becky at September 25, 2006 09:00 AM