Is PETA becoming more and more ridiculous?

If, one day, a Mexican day laborer smelling of tofu and alfalfa sprouts hurls a bucket of paint on your mink coat, curse not the country's broken Immigration system.

Instead, you can thank the good people who brought you the $1 million artificial chicken contest and sang the joys of pleather.

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (better known as PETA) sees the wall being built at the U.S.-Mexico border as both a futile attempt to stop a complex, intractable problem and a blank slate to win over new soldiers in its war against meat.

Last week, the organization offered to buy ad space on the wall anywhere along the border, at whatever the going rate might be

Directed toward those presumably scaling the wall, the ad would say, in both English and Spanish: "If the border patrol doesn't get you, the chicken and burgers will. Go vegan." More...

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