Beastie Boys (press photo)
Calling a spayed a spayed. Ron Jeremy takes it off for taking it off the family pet. (PETA)
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| By: Israel Insider staff and partners |
| Published: February 23, 2005 |
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| Beastie Boys (press photo) |
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The all-Jewish band The Beastie Boys was squawking foul when their names and signatures showed up on a faxed letter supporting the PETA campaign against Kentucky Fried Chicken.
It seems that Messrs. Adam Horowitz, Adam Yauch, and Michael Diamond were licking their fingers Down Under when approached by a petition-bearing PETA lady and decided to give her their John Hancocks.
"A lady was walking around an airport in Australia asking people to sign something. When she approached me I thought (and I assume that Adam and Mike did as well) that it was a petition that she was getting as many signatures on as she could. So I signed it thinking that I might be able to help out with stopping some unnecessary suffering of some birds. But I thought that my name would appear in conjunction with thousands of others," Yauch explained.
"By the look of the letter that PETA sent out," he added, "they must have scanned our signatures, photo shopped them neatly in order and then added our names typed in, so that it would look like we drafted and sent the letter ourselves."
While expressing support for PETA generally, Yauch chided the activist group for its PR techniques: "If we want to draft an open letter to someone and send it out to the media we'll do it ourselves."
PETA -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animal -- had better luck with porn star Ron Jeremy, also a prominent member of the tribe, whom they recruited to appear unclothed in an public service announcement advocating the spaying of dogs and cats. "It won't make your dog less manly," he said, suggesting that those who insist on unsprayed canines "probably are short and drive large cars."
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