Real News Crazier Than Comic Books - PETA Targets Ninja Turtles

Posted today on PETA.org for immediate release is a letter to Nickelodeon attempting to persuade them into a vegan pizza lifestyle:

January 31, 2018

Cyma Zarghami

President Nickelodeon

Dear Ms. Zarghami,

I’m  writing on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)  and our more than 6.5 million members and supporters worldwide—a bunch  of them dyed-in-the-half-shell fans of Mikey, Leo, Raph, and Donnie—to  say, “Bodacious!”

That was the reaction around here when word got  out about Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. What really got PETA  buzzing, though, was the “different direction” that you spelled out for  the new series. More laughs? Mystic ninja powers? Gnarly!

But  every fan worth his or her nunchucks knows that wherever the show leads  the Turtles, they’ll be fueling up with pizza. It’s practically their raison d’être, right? That’s another reason why I’m getting in touch: to ask that their pies and slices be vegan, because compassionate eating is the direction that TMNT fans, their siblings, and their parents are  taking.

Check this out: Generation Z already scarfs down 57  percent more tofu and chugs 550 percent more nondairy milk than millennials do. Meanwhile, 70 percent of U.S. college campuses offer daily vegan options—that’s an awesome 42 percent jump from just four  years ago—and one in five even have an all-vegan dining station.  Twenty-six percent of all consumers say that they’ve cut back on eating  meat in the last 12 months, and 58 percent of adults drink nondairy milk.

What’s that mean for reptilian—and human—pizza connoisseurs?  More than 40 restaurant chains across the country, including Two Boots, & pizza, and Pizza Studio in the Turtles’ New York City stomping  grounds, have taken note and added vegan cheese to their menus, and many  of them now offer cruelty-free toppings like mock meats, seasoned  tempeh, and tofu.

Putting vegan pizza on the Fab Four’s plates is  sure to inspire fans to try it themselves, and that would be great news  for cows. The dairy industry isn’t kind to these gentle, intelligent  beings—they often spend their lives standing on concrete floors,  separated from their babies and tethered to machines until their milk  production wanes. Their misery ends at the slaughterhouse.

I’ve got to believe that the Turtles would be willing to help save other animals’ lives.

Thanks for your time and for considering this important issue. I’m looking forward to discussing it with you.

Sincerely,

Lauren Thomasson

PETA 

Is this idea itself so bad?   Probably not.. 

There is the main team of four, enough characters where it could actually be kind of neat to start having each one have such very diverse traits down to such specific diets.   Just the idea alone is actually a really positive one, or at least could be.

Is PETA itself so bad?  Really not sure after the some of the wording in that letter and after seeing this..

Letter Source: https://www.peta.org/media/news-releases/teenage-mutant-vegan-turtles-peta-wants-dairy-free-pizza-tmnt-reboot/

Header Image Source: https://pixabay.com/en/ninja-turtle-cartoon-comic-1138493/

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