Today's instalment, from http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet...08//?query=PETA

talk about hoisted by one's own PETArd (hey, I've ALWAYS wanted to use that expression somewhere--what a golden opportunity).
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Street teens hired to post signs linking meat, slayings

By ROD MICKLEBURGH

UPDATED AT 8:24 PM EDT Thursday, Apr. 8, 2004
VANCOUVER -- "Street teens" have been hired to plaster the city with controversial anti-meat posters linking the fate of 61 missing or slain women from the Downtown Eastside with the slaughter of pigs, after local billboard firms refused to rent space to the radical group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

PETA has hired Toronto-based Grassroots Advertising to put up the posters. "We've got a number of street teens in place to do it," Grassroots general manager Mary-Jane Owen said yesterday.

"Controversy gets people thinking, and these posters perhaps will make us reflect on the story behind the slice of protein on our dinner plate."

Meanwhile, the mastermind of the shock campaign that has already featured its message on billboards in Toronto and Edmonton is unapologetic about using the tragedy of the missing women to promote vegetarianism.

"We can't bring the victims back, but we can learn from this," said Bruce Friedrich, PETA's director of vegan campaigns.

"And what we can learn is that the adoption of a vegetarian diet is the best way to say 'no' to the continuing violence and suffering of animals."

The PETA billboard features pictures of a young woman and a pig, with the caption: Neither of Us Is Meat.

It refers to recent revelations that remains of some of the missing women may have been fed to pigs -- later butchered for meat -- on the farm of Robert Pickton, who is charged with murdering 15 of the women.

"If you're eating a corpse, you're eating a corpse, whether it's a human being or any other animal," Mr. Friedrich said.