The Milwaukee Brewers are one of a number of major league teams that feature inane “entertainment” that, in the Brewers’ case, features a race between a bratwurst, hot dog, Polish sausage and Italian sausage. The race features people dressed up in costumes who run on the warning track between the sixth and seventh innings.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals recently wrote to the Brewers to ask them to include a vegetarian soy sausage to the race. The Brewers said they have no plan to take PETA up on its suggestion as, “we consider the sausage race a tradition here that we don’t really care to change in any way.”
Good to see PETA going after the really serious important animal-related issues.
Source:
PETA’s demand a real wiener. The Associated Press, September 8, 2002.