This link comes courtesy of The Vegan Sistah Project and, I am sad to say that no, I do not think this is a hoax. This is absolutely consistent with the tactics of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Just read Jan Frel's article from back in 2005 PETA: Whatever It Takes, a revelatory yet tad too applauding article on their tactics.
As Frel well says, PETA doesn't care about it's reputation. Even though their original goal as an organization was the "total liberation of animals"; they've done an interesting detour in their pursuit. Sometime in the 90s PETA figured out it was more profitable to focus on selling themselves as the only liberators of animals.
So they've walked way from overtly funding terrorist organizations like the Animal Liberation Front. They've also gone through great lenghts to scrub the web and recorded history from any connections Ingrid Newkirk, founder of PETA, had with the cultish teachings of gurus who call for radical liberation of all creatures from "human suffering"; meaning, no use of honey, no killing of lice or cockroaches, no drinking of milk, wearing of pearls, clothing with silk.
What they've done is to take their extremist yet highly privileged origins and completely channeled them into a 24/7 advertising cycle for the organization. All PETA does is to spend their time and effort bringing attention to PETA. It's in this onanistic pursuit they go to great lenghts at offending as many people as possible since any defense or push back will only bring more attention to them. It's no wonder they spend considerable time and effort throwing racist, mysogynist, exploitative, ableist and transphobic advertising petards to unsuspecting passers-by.
Most importantly, PETAs tactics have focused on selling their brand of activism as a form of mainstream pornography that has every celebrity-seeking famewhore normalizing the organization with their naked endorsements.
PETAs uses the soft-core porn of "I rather go naked than wear fur" ads to hide their more hard core and snuff campaigns. It doesnt matter to the celebutards and Hollywoodiots they sign up for their campaigns --and that includes you Benicio del Toro!
Celebrity is a parasitic ecosystem where someone's host is somebody else's victim and PETA has learned to play both host and victim with their campaigns.
They cry poverty and hence the need to make their ads porno-ish and exploitative because "sex sells". And yet nowadays many fameseekers of all kinds use the PETA ad campaign as a measure of their celebrity and famewhoring success. Professional famewhore Khloe Kardashian being a prime example of Hollywood hipocrisy.
And before I forget, let me reiterate : YES BENICIO DEL TORO, YOU'RE A HOLLYWOODIOT FOR EVEN THINKING OF LENDING YOUR NAME TO PETA.
So this doesn't shock me in the least: PETA is looking for an African American or Mixed-Race Vegan Actor Needed for PETA Video to play you know who? A STRIPPER VERSION OF BARACK OBAMA. Twenty-something years in existance and PETA has never done anything like this for any of the WHITE MALE PRESIDENTS this country has had. Get a black man in the White House and they'll go after him with every exploitative trick in their bag:
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