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Crisis con
The most outrageous claim made since
the COVID-19 crisis began has come, not
from Donald Trump as may have been
expected, but from our old friends
PETA, the animal rights group People
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
They claimed last month that eating
meat may enable the coronavirus to
infect humans.
The main plank of their evidence to
support this nonsense goes like this:
“'Carnivorous is an anagram of
coronavirus. Coincidence? We think
NOT!” PETA’s claim continues,
“Scientists have a hunch that contact
with live animals or their dead flesh may
be the source of the deadly virus.”
While PETA continued to urge the
public to become vegans “to cut off
animal-borne pathogens at the source,”
it was unsurprising to find the group
being mocked on social media. “
friendships, just like humans, as well as
damaging the planet.”
Some 243 of the 12,000 students at the
LSE then voted to ban beef from the
campus, while PETA’s representative at
the LSE who raised the motion is
continuing her campaign to have all
animal products banned from the dining
halls. The LSE said that the student vote
is not binding.
And this is why you aren’t taken
seriously,” wrote someone on Twitter,
while another accusing them of being
the “flat-earthers of veganism.” Best of
these put-downs were the withering
comments from someone who offered,
“In Portuguese, ‘peta’ means ‘lie’.
Coincidence?” “Snowflake central”
Unfortunately, PETA also featured in a
story from late February which
prompted panic by students at the
London School of Economics and other
learning institutes. They took note of
PETA’s claim that “cows form close Last month, the former British Home
Secretary Amber Rudd was invited to
address students at Oxford University in
a bid to encourage more women to enter
politics. She agreed to speak free of
charge to help female students to
celebrate International Women’s Day,
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