People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has brought its Holocaust-On-A-Plate campaign to Warsaw, Poland, where so many Jews were slaughtered by Nazi Germany. Needless to say, the campaign isn’t going over well with local Jewish leaders.
PETA is running an advertisement that the Associated Press describes thusly,
The television ads, showing the outside world as seen through the slates of a boxcar, with a voice describing the plight of being transported with no food and water . . .
Organizers say they hope to protest against the brutality of transporting live animals for slaughter by invoking the suffering of hundreds of thousands of Jews carried in inhumane conditions to death camps in Europe and chose Warsaw for their launch because so many Polish Jews perished in the Holocaust.
According to the Associated Press, PETA hopes that MTV Poland will run the ad in order to target the youth market.
The kicker to the entire story, however, was PETA’s Dan Mathews telling the Associated Press,
I know the ad is provocative. But for me, one of the lessons of the Holocaust is to recognize other atrocities.
Mathews forgot to mention the other lesson he learned from the Holocaust — his admiration for serial killers.
Source:
Animal rights ad evokes Holocaust. Associated Press, July 15, 2003.