PETA gets pied in the face in St. John's Newfoundland today. A local radio station VOCM reported on their website today that a planned protest by PETA against the seal hunt was sabotaged. The deed was done by a pie throwing puppy dog know as The Downhomer magazine mascot 'Salty Dog'.
Apparently the PETA protester, a young woman from Vancouver, Emily Lavender was standing outside the Delta Hotel, in St. John's protesting the seal hunt holding a sign saying "Stop the Seal Slaughter". Prime Minister Harper was inside the Hotel addressing the Canadian Construction Association conference 
at the time.
Soon after the PETA protester was joined by someone dressed in a seal suit. That person, a Newfoundlander, took off the outfit and began saying "Down with PETA". Apparently she was visibly embarrassed but stayed in her location.
Later someone dressed in a 'Salty Dog' suit came up and put a pie in her face. It caused quite a stir on New Gower Street and the RNC arrived to talk to the protester.
It was also reported on by the Telegram that last week someone from PETA threw a pie in the face of the Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea to protest her support for the seal hunt.
This unfortunate retaliation for that assault was paralleled as yet another needless prank that does more damage to any counter arguments than it does good. However one must not rule out the possibility that PETA itself orchestrated the whole affair to engender sympathy after its assault on the Federal Minister.
While I very much support a humane and regulated seal hunt and the thousands of people who make their living this way, I do not advocate this type of violence of one group against the other. It precipitates escalating tensions between human beings, leads to misrepresentations of the issues and hinders the process of due justice for assaults of this kind.
It is better to treat the protests of PETA as illogical and hypocritical gibberish that is exposed for what it is by the clear arguments from reasonable people who can define the issues with truth. This type of action is merely a cop out.
Photo insert by Keith Gosse/The Telegram
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