Veep, or veg?
Just ahead of Al Gore’s stop this week in Portland, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has challenged the former vice president to back his green talk by giving up meat.
At Gore’s book discussion Wednesday night at Keller Auditorium, PETA warns that the former vice president will be faced down by a “nearly naked ‘Mother Earth‘ ” and PETA supporters holding signs that say “Meat’s Not Green.”
“More and more, we are hearing about the damage that meat production does to our water supply, the forests and the global climate,” PETA says in a news release. “In light of these reports, we are asking Mr. Gore simply to try going vegetarian for 30 days. If he were to stick with it for a year, he could save more than 100 animals’ lives — and maybe even his own.”
Gore is coming to town to campaign for 2010 Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Bill Bradbury and pimp his new book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.
PETA vs. Al Gore. Bring it!
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It never ceases to amaze me how many people in this world think they have the right to tell others how to live.
Go fuck yourselves PETA.
Based on the photo the carbon credit business must be pretty good. Old Al sure isn’t missing any meals.
How do you prepare PETA? They’re already half-baked. Just thinking about adding to the menu options.
Yes, yes, and yes. Swallow all the U.N. horseshit you want. Your “facts” mean nothing.
Really Deeters?
Should the United Nations go fuck off too?
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/index.html
Or the University of Chicago?
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060413.diet.shtml
Or the Pew Commission?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR2008042902602.html
You can hate on PETA all you want, but don’t ignore the facts.
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PETA is irrelevant and simply looking for attention. Have they asked any climate scientists to go vegan? Again, clearly looking for attention. Laughable.
How is Mr. Gore arriving to Portland?
By airplane? (Most likely.)
By Amtrak? (That’s the Portland thing to do.)
By Greyhound? (Not cool, but Greyhound does have the lowest carbon emissions of any long distance mode of transport – yes, even lower than Amtrak.)
Once Mr. Gore is in Portland, how wil he get around?
Chauferred Limo? (Most likely.)
A borrowed Prius? (OK, if all four seats are occupied, but it’s still using up highway space that could be used for higher purposes.)
TriMet? (Highly unlikely.)
Bike? (Gore? In Spandex? Ewwwwwww!)
Walk? (Uh, I’m too tired. ‘You haven’t even left the terminal building yet!’)
How do we know that Al Gore eats a lot of meat, anyway?
And Deeters, “telling people how to live” can easily, in this case, be tantamount to “trying to save the planet”, just in case you CARED.
Gaye:
Minor correction here. Even if humans managed to upset the balance such that humans no longer existed, “the planet” will continue to spin and orbit the sun for millennia. If you believe your efforts are for saving the flora and the fauna, good for you. If you think you are “saving the planet,” you need to lower your hubris a few notches.
Team Deeters!
I don’t support wanton pollution or puppy torture, but I’d love to tell Gore and PETA to both go eff themselves.
I’ll be sure to have a big, juicy hamburger that day for dinner, just for PETA. Suck it, hippys.
But Al is buying carbon credits to offset all the carbon he produces by traveling around the world trying to save it.
The best line I’ve heard on that is :
“Buying carbon credits is equivalent to a fat person hiring an anorexic to diet for them”
All it does is keep the situation in equilibrium.
Hahahahaha!!! It’s all so true but PETA will manage to make everyone hungry for beef with a side of mountain top mining. I’ve always wondered, what do PETA douche’s feed their cats?
Personally, I think there is nothing as good as thick steak cooked medium rare, closer to rare, after a hard day of clubbing baby seals.
Could someone, ANYONE PLEASE TELL ME, what this circle-jerk turf war b/t PETA & green activists is all about? NO, SERIOUSLY! Infact, there seems to be spike in conflict & [counter]-protesting b/t an increasing number ov leftist groups, WTF?!
Several weeks ago, i got an invite to a facebook titled: Veggies(& Vegitarians) Against PETA.
Then, the other month a local group of femanists (8-12 women, give or take) demonstrated a book-speaking at Powells by a PETA member.
MY main things are ‘anti-police/facism/religion/’. So generally, i don’t do animal/eviro-rights or feminism – but i’ve got absolutely NOTHING against theses other activists, as i’ve got a pretty clear idea of who [my] enemies are.
So this recent uptick of inter-strife b/t PETA, greens, etc. puzzles me.
“TELL ME,” “i got” “MY main things” “i don’t” “i’ve got” “i’ve got” “[my] enemies” “puzzles me.”
All in one cute little self-expose!
Look up “narcissism,” DamosAbadabado. Who give a rat’s ass what YOU think?
In response to DamosAbadon, it’s pretty simple: PETA has long antagonized the public with their righteous indignation and pseudo-violent tactics. They are hated for the same reason people who aren’t fundamentalist evangelical Christians are hated – fundamentalists make all christians look bad as PETA makes vegetarians look bad, evangelist Christians try to push their way of life on others just as PETA does for vegetarianism.
@ David
Um, ok sooo, PETA is equal to evangelical nazi religious thugs, really? PETA blows up eateries & murders cooks the same way evangelicals blow up health clinics & murder doctors/staff? Again i’m not an animal-rights guy, per`say, but what has PETA done that would even qualify as “pseudo-violent? And again, what did PETA do to piss off the greenies soo much?
Does anyone have any UN-BAISED answers?
Btw, regular christians don’t need ANY help from the “crazy fringe” to make them look bad.
The feminists were protesting PETA because they put out a billboard stating.
“Save the whales. Lose the blubber. Go Vegetarian” which depicted an overweight white female in a bikini.
Basically PETA endorses the media’s stereotypical image of females, as having to be unhealthily thin, thus enraging feminists and overweight people.
There you go, two “leftist” groups having a go at each other.
And just to add fuel to the fire, for all their righteous indignation at how animals are treated by society, this is the same group that euthanizes over half the animals they “rescue”.
So Gore’s southern Daddy, the late Senator Gore Sr., got rich selling registered Angus bulls and cows to celebrities, all arranged by Armand Hammer, the Occidental Petroleum CEO and Stalin confidant and Soviet spy.
I was an ignorant kid going to college and renting a house on a ranch owned by Glenn Jackson, of PPL, Standard Ins., and ODOT fame. He was the Democrat Sun God for Oregon and decided where the freeways would pass or by-pass. He was what Goldschmidt aspired to be. Jackson raised registered Devon cattle on his Butte Falls ranch. By co-incidence, so did Bob Straub and Wayne Morse. They bought each other’s bulls. And sold stock to other heavy hitters. It wasn’t until I read a Gore biography that I understood what the registered livestock trade among politicians and wealthy patrons brought to the table, and that was wealth for the politicians. It was how to funnel money to their lifestyle. Gore Sr. sold bulls to Joe Dimaggio, and other celebrities. A Gore Tennessee neighbor was always amazed at what Gore bulls brought at auction on the farm, when compared to the registered Herefords the neighbor sold. And I now know why Senator Morse, Governor Straub and other Democrat mucky mucks in Oregon raised Devon cattle: Glenn Jackson could buy them and would.
Gore did not have to eat beef to still be a product of dead beef. Beef made him what he became. Paid for the hotel rooms he grew up in, in Washington DC. Paid for private school. Paid for Harvard. Dead bulls, steers and cows, and Stalin’s Arabian horses, and his Arabian horse farm in the country of Georgia he owned with Hammer, financed Al Gore’s life. He is first and foremost a product of beef and blooded horses (and what do you do with a cull horse in 2009?—sell it to a lobbyist?…I thought it worked the other way around). Remember the Gore campaign ad showing him riding a horse on the Tennessee farm? That was a graft horse. And it pulled its weight.
“Btw, regular christians don’t need ANY help from the “crazy fringe” to make them look bad.”
Wow. Ignorant much?
I don’t know, why don’t you ask them?
Actually, as I am sure you know, that was directed at you, and your glaring display of complete ignorance. Christians are some of this world’s best people. They are kind, generous, giving and caring people who look out for others and do tremendous good. It is only the extremist whackos who mouth off, act up and misrepresent the religion who are the problem, and in this, Christianity shares much with Islam, whose members suffer from the actions of a few whackos like bin Laden or Nadal Hassan.
But of course, I am sure that this is all much too complex and difficult to understand for a feeble minded internet troll such as yourself, so I’ll just sign off with this;
Don’t be a douche. If you can halp it.
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I’m amazed at how many people who care about nothing and nobody, except for themselves, troll the blogs just to insult anyone or any group who does care about others and is trying to make a difference. It seems that their lives must be so miserable that the only way that they can make themselves feel better is to spew their venom at people and organizations that they really don’t know anything about. You put down PETA, but you’re the ones who have been put on Earth only to take up space.
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