That's rather odd. While the effect of conducting the annual presidential turkey pardoning ceremony is actually to save one of "gentle, intelligent [yet tasty] birds," PETA wants Obama to have no part in the whole affair.
Obama for his part has always done the ceremony and probably will again this year -- although maybe his views have "evolved" in this area too, especially now that he's largely unaccountable (errr, in his second term).
Regardless, I have a separate question for PETA, which I've always sort of wondered: I know your position against eating game and domesticated animals, but what say you, PETA, when it comes to the whole issue of human cannibals gettin' their grub on with fellow humans?
Do you turn a blind calf's eye to that sort of thing since there aren't really any "animals" involved (except in the most technical of senses)?
If not, and if you do oppose the practice of putting a grown man in a stew or through a meat grinder (it happens, as previously detailed in this space), then why have I never heard you say word one about it, PETA? The silence is truly deafening over here. Nary a gobble, gobble.
http://www.newser.com/story/157960/peta-to-obama-dont-pardon-the-turkey.html
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/268919-peta-calls-on-obama-to-skip-sorely-outdated-thanksgiving-turkey-pardon
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