Singapore’s Straits Times recently ran a short profile of Swedish supermodel Marcus Schenkenberg who was in Mumbai, Singapore to unveil a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ad he had posed for.
The ad features Schenkenberg releasing a bird from a cage. The Strait Times reported Schenkenberg as saying,
“Isn’t it ironic that an organization whose primary mission is to reduce the slaughter of animals has a carnivore as its poster boy?,” he asked, adding that he works so hard his body craves meat.
“But I’m trying so hard to cut down and go vegetarian,” said the world’s first male supermodel apologetically.
Well, I mean, if he works so hard his body craves meat, who are we to deny a little chicken or steak to Schenkenberg? Schenkenberg has also campaigned against fur, but I hope he understand the needs of some people who crave wearing fur.
Besides he’s trying so hard to go vegetarian. And really, he’s only been affiliated with PETA since at least 2001. Maybe he’ll have the whole vegetarian thing worked about by the end of the decade.
Anyway, Schenkenberg says of his activism on behalf of PETA,
There’s so much cruelty being inflicted on animals around the world and they don’t have the ability to protest. So I’m glad to speak for them.
Or eat them as the case may be.
Source:
PETA’s new model. The Straits Times, July 10, 2003.