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06-24-2011, 06:44 AM
PETA Uses "Microwave Baby" Case as Billboard Inspiration
Sam Cohen & Andria Borba
FOX40 News
3:10 PM PDT, June 23, 2011
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SACRAMENTO - A national animal rights group is using a recent Sacramento case about a mother allegedly microwaving her child to death as the inspiration for an ad campaign. The billboard features the image of a person who is about to pop a pork chop into the microwave next to a picture of a mother pig with a piglet. It reads "Everybody's Somebody's Baby. Go Vegan."
The idea's not sitting too well with Sacramentans. "It's not cool, it's not cool," said David Wilhelm. Ruth Santiago said, "Those are the types of things that open up a larger scale and then it turns into a big old huge mess and and they're totally forgetting about the life that was taken."
PETA says they are in negotiation with outdoor advertisers to put up this billboard “in the wake of Tuesday’s arrest of a Sacramento woman for allegedly microwaving her infant daughter”.
"If we think microwaving a human being is wrong, we should also consider whether or not cooking an animal is the right thing to do," said Lindsey Rajt with PETA. "Every animal that was killed by the meat industry to be microwaved and eaten was someone's baby at some point."
Ka Yang faces allegations she put her 6-month-old child in the microwave and turned it on. The baby girl was found dead earlier this year. Yang admitted to Sacramento officers she had a seizure and dropped her baby on a space heater. However, investigators say that is not possible based on the burn marks, which they identified as being from a microwave.
Yang was assigned a public defender at a Thursday court hearing, she’ll be in court again on July 14th.
"Everyone is entitled to their opinions, to us, the horrific nature of this story offered us an opportunity to talk about how everytime we microwave a piece of meat we are microwaving a once living animal," said Rajt.
FOX40 has placed calls for comment from PETA and animal rights organizations, hear what they have to say on FOX40 News at 5:30.
VIDEO:
http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/ktxl-peta-uses-microwave-baby-case-as-billboard-inspiration-20110623,0,391369.story
Sam Cohen & Andria Borba
FOX40 News
3:10 PM PDT, June 23, 2011
http://i.imgur.com/Gt96d.jpg
SACRAMENTO - A national animal rights group is using a recent Sacramento case about a mother allegedly microwaving her child to death as the inspiration for an ad campaign. The billboard features the image of a person who is about to pop a pork chop into the microwave next to a picture of a mother pig with a piglet. It reads "Everybody's Somebody's Baby. Go Vegan."
The idea's not sitting too well with Sacramentans. "It's not cool, it's not cool," said David Wilhelm. Ruth Santiago said, "Those are the types of things that open up a larger scale and then it turns into a big old huge mess and and they're totally forgetting about the life that was taken."
PETA says they are in negotiation with outdoor advertisers to put up this billboard “in the wake of Tuesday’s arrest of a Sacramento woman for allegedly microwaving her infant daughter”.
"If we think microwaving a human being is wrong, we should also consider whether or not cooking an animal is the right thing to do," said Lindsey Rajt with PETA. "Every animal that was killed by the meat industry to be microwaved and eaten was someone's baby at some point."
Ka Yang faces allegations she put her 6-month-old child in the microwave and turned it on. The baby girl was found dead earlier this year. Yang admitted to Sacramento officers she had a seizure and dropped her baby on a space heater. However, investigators say that is not possible based on the burn marks, which they identified as being from a microwave.
Yang was assigned a public defender at a Thursday court hearing, she’ll be in court again on July 14th.
"Everyone is entitled to their opinions, to us, the horrific nature of this story offered us an opportunity to talk about how everytime we microwave a piece of meat we are microwaving a once living animal," said Rajt.
FOX40 has placed calls for comment from PETA and animal rights organizations, hear what they have to say on FOX40 News at 5:30.
VIDEO:
http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/ktxl-peta-uses-microwave-baby-case-as-billboard-inspiration-20110623,0,391369.story