PETA Ingrid Newkirk Calls Out Al Gore For Lack Of Veggie Talk
Written by Vegetarian Star on November 6th, 2009 in Environment-Eco-Green, Food & Drink, Politicians.
Ingrid Newkirk Photo Credit: David Shankbone on Wikimedia Commons
Al Gore recently agreed he should have spoken more about the effects of meat eating and the environment.
But that hasn’t stopped PETA Queen Ingrid Newkirk from rubbing in his lack of outspokenness and humiliation during the recent debate where he admitted his faults.
From an article at Huffingtonpost.com titled “Come On Al, Steak or the Earth?”:
“That’s why he has only himself to blame for the blows dealt him this week from the BBC’s Mr. Paxman, ABC’s Ms. Sawyer and other commentators. Yes, he’s the son of a Black Angus rancher. My father climbed mountains and went out in to the ocean in small boats during storms, but I’m not following suit. He protests that eating meat is a “personal choice” and tries to excuse his penchant for a daily steak (sometimes two, we hear from a reliable source) because he finds it “too hard” to “give up” meat? Driving a Hummer for the hell of it is a personal choice, and how hard can it be to go vegetarian when this week’s New York Times list of best-selling hardback advice books shows chef Tal Ronnen’s The Conscious Cook sitting pretty at number three and Alicia Silverstone’s The Kind Diet at number five? Both are vegan — not just vegetarian — cookbooks that I dare anyone to open without drooling. Last week, Chipotle at Dupont Circle in Washington test-marketed a Gardein vegan “chicken” burrito. It sold out almost instantly, and an emergency supply of these delicious little medallions of soy protein had to be dispatched to meet demand.”
No one says it quite like Ingrid!
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November 6th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Paul McCartney has been advoacting environmentalism, animal rights and vegetariansm for many more years than Al Gore has talked about global warming.
MACC’S the real deal not Mr. Gore.
November 6th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Am I right to read that he DID say he was sorry for not discussing this?
I think after someone apologizes, the big thing to do is to say something along the lines of “Let’s hope in his next talk, he says more about….and works harder to change his ways.”
The man has done a TON for environmental awareness. Is he perfect? Far from it. But that’s not an excuse for, in effect, beating him up publicly for not being as ideal as you’d like him to be.
I find HER comments to be far more off-putting than Al Gore.
November 7th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Many people are “health nuts” and joggers, and environmental protectionists, and yes, even vegetarians for reasons not related to compassion, but for reasons utterly consistent with self-centric, personal obsessions about extending one’s own life and comforts in perpetuity. This can be describe as being “health conscious” for all the wrong reasons. I say “wrong reasons” because the root cause of environmental degradation and animal abuse lies firmly rooted in the self-centered, narcissistic, Ayn Rand brand of “Me-ism” and selfishness that began in dead earnest with the Reagan presidency. If it’s not for compassion’s sake, it’s for the sake of that which incessantly perpetuates the problem. Only Compassion breaks that vicious cycle and only Compassion runs deep enough and sure enough to make abstinence an easy and natural road to follow. Can the Al Gores of the World come to understand this?