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Ratz on Geese
Do our feathered friends give Pope Benedict the warm and fuzzies? PETA hopes so. MSNBC reports that the group is claiming him as an animal-rights supporter, citing comments he made three years ago about the poor treatment of geese and the "degrading of living creatures to a commodity." But don't get too excited:
"We're not expecting him to appear in one of our 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur' ads," a PETA spokesman told The Scoop.
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|4.20.05 @ 3:44PM|#
Look, unless those geese are going to be playing tic-tac-toe at the Trop, then I've got no use for them.
Will Pope Benedict cause a rift between the homosexual and animal rights activists? Only time will tell.
Same Pope time. Same Pope channel.
|4.20.05 @ 4:03PM|#
Will Pope Benedict cause a rift between the homosexual and animal rights activists? Only time will tell.
It's too late. Ask Pim Fortuyn!
|4.20.05 @ 4:27PM|#
Any Bishop of Rome has to be pro-goose. The Capitoline Geese saved the City once, right?
Kevin
Larry A|4.21.05 @ 12:08AM|#
Vegetarian: Ancient Native American word for "lousy hunter."