People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), an animal rights group, has come up with a new tactic to “save the world.” Their answer: a sex strike against meat-eating men.
PETA’s Sex Strike Against Meat-Eating Men
PETA, whose tagline is, “Animals are not our to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way,” has decided they’ve had enough of meat-eating men. Well, at least the German division of PETA has.
They are “proposing a strike on sex with meat-eating men to persuade them to go vegan,” according to PETA’s website.
Last week, PETA representative, Dr. Carys Bennett, talked about his in a short video posted to Twitter. Listen to her reasons here:
“Men have a 40 percent higher carbon footprint because they’re eating more meat than woman.”
Women in Germany are being told to stop having sex with their husbands and boyfriends until they stop eating red meat. Dr Carys Bennett from PETA explains on #TimesRadio. pic.twitter.com/6B9jlFn1Pl
— Times Radio (@TimesRadio) September 22, 2022
“Men need to take accountability for their actions,” PETA writer, Elena Waldman, wrote on PETA’s website. “And the easiest, healthiest, simplest way to do this is by going vegan.”
According to Waldman’s logic, these “suburban men with beer bottles in hand, brandishing tongs while cooking sausages on their expensive gas grills,” are proving their “masculinity to themselves” through the eating of meat, and if women would just go on a sex strike, they could teach these men to switch over to fake meat.
In another video (below) posted to Twitter, Bennett explained to listeners that we don’t need to kill any animals because “We’ve got vegan sausage rolls, wonderful vegan burgers and pizzas in every shop and restaurant now.”
“Men should be held accountable. We’re still killing one billion chickens, cows, and pigs every year.”
Women should ‘go on sex strike’ as men ‘are responsible for over 40% more greenhouse gas emissions’, a PETA campaign in Germany says. Dr Carys Bennett discusses on #TimesRadio. pic.twitter.com/pMyJ92ich7
— Times Radio (@TimesRadio) September 22, 2022
Of course, Bennett recognized in her interview with the Times Radio that it began as a “fun suggestion,” but she went on to say that “really it was a serious message.”
A PETA team leader in Germany, Daniel Cox, suggested an alternative approach, “Now there is scientific proof that toxic masculinity also harms the climate. Therefore, a hefty meat tax of 41% for men would be appropriate.”
So what’s the response of the public to the suggested sex strike against meat-eating men? Read on.
