But heaven help any of these cute creatures if they support President Trump!

GREEN WEENIE OF THE WEEK: PETA. AGAIN  . . . Really, sometimes I think PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals, er, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) exists mainly to make fools of themselves and offend as many normal people as possible. We reported back in June how Friends of the Earth (with PETA along for the ride) had come out against the new “meatless” burgers that actually taste like burgers. Can’t have that! Veggie-burgers have to taste like. . . well, like veggie-burgers, because what’s the fun of being an environmental scold if you can’t make life miserable.

PETA’s latest stunt is this billboard in Baltimore—the capital of crab cake country:

 . . . "Well, at least PETA has liberated animals from the cruelty of Animal Crackers packaging:

Animal crackers’ animals “freed” as boxes get new look

After more than a century behind bars, the beasts on boxes of animal crackers are roaming free. Mondelez International, the parent company of Nabisco, has redesigned the packaging of its Barnum’s Animals crackers after relenting to pressure from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

PETA, which has been protesting the use of animals in circuses for more than 30 years, wrote a letter to Mondelez in the spring of 2016 calling for a redesign.

Which all brings to mind these golden oldies from PETA:

PETA Wants Giant Tombstone Erected In Memory Of Chickens Killed In Truck Wreck

PETA Attempts To Make Fish More Adorable

" 'PETA thought that by renaming fish sea kittens, compassionate people who would never dream of hurting a dog or a cat might extend that sympathy to fish, or sea kittens," PETA campaign coordinator Ashley Byrne says.
"Byrne says that rebranding fish as sea kittens was obvious."

And these people vote.