Thursday January 29 2009 I am not a nugget! [ ] [ mood | outraged ] PETA, n, abbrev. - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. I don't remember where my net-surfing tangent began yesterday which brought me to PETA's website, but I know where it ended. I must have spent about five or six hours browsing around their site, and here I am the next morning - on it again. Since discovering their cause, and within about ten minutes of having a read through some of the facts on kentuckyfriedcruelty.com (go there - it's ten times more shocking than the new goss on Lindsay Lohan) I had flooded all my friends inboxes with petition invitations and sign-up requests, signed a pledge to boycott KFC, recounted some of the facts to my Mom which made her shudder, tip out her tea and pledge to boycott the Colonel as well, and most importantly... I joined the PETA street team. Not only is the PETA street team an exciting and liberating thing to be a part of, it also runs on a points system which, once you accumulate enough of them, allows you to spend them in the PETA store for real stuff like t-shirts, books and messenger bags which you get to buy without spending a cent! If nothing else, THAT is really cool. But aside from the sheer material joy you'll experience when a package arrives which you paid nothing for, PETA encourages you to get active for the causes you believe in. There's a massive list on the website with things that you can do - they'll help you organize protests or demonstrations, send you material with which you can fundraise for bigger projects and even just reward you for pimping them on your blog (no, that's not what this is - they specified myspace. But I'm gonna see if I can get any points for this anyway). So, I urge you to go to their website, have a read of some of the horrible ways animals are deliberately tortured BEFORE they're killed for meat, and if you are moved in the same way I was, sign up to the street team to get involved. (when asked for who referred you, my e-mail address is home-on-the-highway67@hotmail.com). I'm certain that you don't need to be vegetarian or vegan to agree that scalding chickens to death in vats of boiling water while they are still fully conscious is NOT the most humane way to get your chicken nuggets.

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