Screw PETA, I'm Team Jennifer

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Looks like PETA is feuding with someone else this week so it looks like Kim K is safe from another flour bomb this week. This weeks lucky recipient of their wrath is Jennifer Lawrence. Jennifer Lawrence made some comments about a scene she did in Winter's Bone. In the movie she skins a squirrel for her movie family to eat. Apparently, this wasn't a fake squirrel in the movie. She also said that she should probably lie about because of PETA and then went on to say screw PETA. Well, of course that didn't sit well with crazy animal lovers. 


I'm all for animals being treated well and not killed for erroneous purposes. If animals are being killed for sustenance, then I'm cool with that. I eat meat like a lot of other human beings. It's part of life. I am opposed to people wearing fur though. For one, they often skin those animals alive. Just horrible. And two, fur is so hideous and tacky. Seriously, I've never saw anyone wearing fur and thought "Damn, they look cute today." Because wearing fur is ugly and wearing fur makes you look cheap.

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For the purpose of the movie I don't think they had to use a real squirrel. I was an indie film so they may not have had the budget to get a fake one or they wanted the realism. People in the Ozarks eat squirrel. I should know because I was raised in the Ozarks. I have never eaten squirrel, nor do I plan to but I know people who have. People of the Ozarks also eat a lot of food they hunt themselves like venison, wild turkey, fish, and other wild life that is not necessarily sold at a super market. 


I also think it's great that Jennifer Lawrence didn't lie about it and even told PETA to screw off. Good for her. PETA annoys me. I know a lot of vegetarians and vegans who don't support PETA because they are so extreme and most of the members seem cray. I'm sure their are some very sane and non extreme PETA members but you never hear about them. I like what PETA stands for (stopping animal abuse) but not the way they go about it. They jump on everyone about any little thing they do or say. Granted they have the right to say it but when you constantly harp on people you tend to lose your merit. It gets old and you stop listening. They also throw red cups of "blood" and other substances on people. Case in point, the Kim Kardashian flour bomb. While hilarious, it wasn't right. She was already choosing to wear fur, so "attacking" her about wearing fur probably won't make her stop wearing fur. It's like someone who is homophobic. Shoving your sexuality in their faces won't make them any less homophobic. It will actually make them more homophobic. I have kind throw PETA into the same category of the Westboro Baptist Church. Angry extremists with lots of time on their hands to be judgmental. 


This made me giggle.

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