THE DAILY NEWS EGYPT
PETA Campaign in Egypt Ends with Catfight
Marine Weitzmann and Jon Jensen
July 18, 2010
http://she2i2.blogspot.com/2010/07/peta-campaign-in-egypt-ends-with.html


CAIRO: A fistfight between two women broke out in Mohandessin Sunday,
after two-dozen Egyptians scrambled to collect free vegetables given
away by an animal rights group.

Two activists from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
(PETA) group distributed free chili peppers near Moustafa Mahmoud
Square to promote vegetarianism, in an event billed “Spice Up Your
Life, Go Vegetarian.”

Female representatives from the American-run organization, wearing
short-skirts and red leggings, distributed pamphlets in Arabic and
English, which said that eating meat can lead to “environmental
destruction, cruelty to animals, health risks, and poverty.”

Ashley Fruno, a Canadian employee of the Asia-Pacific branch of PETA,
said the event was meant to be “a sexy and funny way to promote a
serious subject.”

The onlookers, many of whom seemed more interested in free chilies,
eventually dashed to fill their bags from a large pile of peppers PETA
had placed on the ground.

The rush for chilies led to the scuffle between the two women, one of
whom was knocked to the ground while both had their headscarves pulled
off, angering several onlookers.

“It is shameful that they put food on the ground for us, as if we were
animals. They are disrespecting Egyptians,” screamed one man, who only
went by the name Mahmoud.

Imported red chili peppers sell for LE 7-10 per kilogram on average in Cairo.

Mohamed Hassan, 32, gathered three crates of peppers to use for
cooking in his small street-side restaurant.

“Of course, I will not stop eating meat, however expensive it may be,”
said Hassan. “But now I have a whole lot of peppers, which should last
me at least three days.”

Despite the fight, PETA said they achieved what they had come for.

“We are used to getting negative reaction from some people,” said
Nadia Montasser, a local PETA media representative. “As long as we get
the message out, it's a success.”


The only message that PETA will be putting out there will cause even more people to question the sanity of Peta operatives.

You mean.........People are STILL questioning PETA member's sanity????

i don't often post to topics about that group of idiots. not worth the breath of air. or the movement of my fingers on the keyboard. i've seen them at some fancy resturant, they were all eating steak and lobster. i sent them a message on a napkin with my waitress, it read, i can hear the cows and lobsters screaming from your table. could you please tell them to quite down abit we're trying to have a nice quite supper here. when they looked my way i shotum the finger


Bud

Bud, that reminds me of the time several years ago that my wife drug me kicking and screaming to the local hippie coffeehouse. I wore a leather jacket and a pair of iguana skin boots. A vegan looked at me and I overheard her say to her boyfriend something like I must be proud of killing lizards, I said "Yeah, and I kill fish for a living, too."

We didn't stay long.

Awesome, they are offending Muslims now in the middle east.

Lets see them "liberate" some goats over there and get their hands cut off for it, or a summer in an Egyptian torture-prison.
Something tells me they don't have the...guts...to risk middle-eastern justice.

Bet there would have been a bigger brawl if they were giving away free meat.