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Is this PETA’s worst campaign yet?

 

 

 

So it seems horribly objectifying women for no good reason wasn’t enough. Now PETA are preying on people’s paranoia about autism in an attempt to get them to adhere to a vegan diet.

PETA’s latest campaign targets the parents of autistic kids.

See?

There’s so much wrong with this ad I barely know where to start. First of all, like all the insane anti-vax propaganda, it implies that being autistic is the worst thing you can possibly be. This isn’t fair on people with autism or their families.

It’s also just not true. There is zero scientific evidence to support what they are saying. The Telegraph said it best when they described PETA as “scaremongering witchdoctors” – they’ve also handily dissected the claims PETA are making.

This is a completely cynical ploy on PETA’s part, since their past actions, like showing images of mutilated animals to small children, have demonstrated that they actually don’t give two whiffs about the welfare of any kid, autistic or otherwise.

Finally, it completely undermines their cause. There are plenty of legitimate ethical and environmental reasons to eat less animal products, but by making up crazy bullshit like this, PETA actually make all of those real arguments seem less plausible.

In fact, their insane shock tactics make me so angry I actually want to eat more meat. I want to show up at their head office and snap the neck of a beautiful fluffy bunny and leave it on their doorstep as a warning sign. Just to prove to them that lying about science, that demonizing autism, that objectifying women and just generally acting like a bunch of deranged, desperate snake oil merchants is not the way you promote a cause.

It’s the way you hurt a cause.

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