Massachusetts-area animal rights activist Lorraine Nicotera recently posted a message to an animal rights e-mail list pushing a parody of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in this month’s Mad Magazine as some sort of publicity victory.
The actual Mad feature is a spread called “Only a true PETA nut…” which then has various endings to that sentence stem such as “…will try to reason with a mosquito,” accompanied by humorous graphics.
Rather than see this for the ridicule it is, Nicotera thinks the piece “shows that PETA and Animal Rights Activists and other organizations have gone so far into mainstream, we are even in MAD Magazine!”
Talk about wishful thinking — although I do hope that Mad continues to poke fun at the insanity that is the animal rights movement.
Source:
Only a True PETA nut . . . MAD mag. Lorraine Nicotera, e-mail communication, September 18, 2001.