File this bizarre clash of personalities under “No Pleasing Some People.” As the Washington Times reported, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Wednesday invited PETA spokeswoman Pamela Anderson to join him in serving a meat-free meal to inmates at the Maricopa County Jail.
Arpaio said in a press release that eliminating meat has saved taxpayers some $200,000 each year, while Anderson has claimed that prisoners are eager “to learn healthier habits and understand compassion and empathy.”
Some aren’t buying that the meat-free meals, which made their debut in September 2013, demonstrate anything about compassion.
Come on @PETA I want to support you. But teaming up w/ Joe Arpaio? I can't. Ends don't justify the means. http://t.co/mlM9q5s6iM
— Brad (Schenck) Caldana (@BradCaldana) April 16, 2015
When organizations like @PETA praise prisons, merely for serving vegan food, they don't speak for me. Abolish prisons http://t.co/7NZTk6RWCx
— Tech Brat in Berlin? (@shushugah) April 16, 2015
PETA praising Joe Arpaio for serving meatless meals in his jails is #peak whites caring more about animals than people of color
— Ayesha A. Siddiqi (@AyeshaASiddiqi) April 15, 2015
@tjolsen87 @pushinghoops PETA cares more about animals than people, period. #ecoterrorists
— Nick Giannak III (@nick6489) April 15, 2015
@pushinghoops I have an acquaintance who was really involved in PETA at one point. Post-Ferguson, I learned he's really racist.
— Doug Newman (@donewman) April 15, 2015
@pushinghoops I've been done with PETA since they dressed in KKK robes to protest dog shows, calling the shows worse than slavery
— France Francois (@1stClassFrance) April 15, 2015
@pushinghoops 'A less violent diet' in the most violent incarceration system on Earth. #Priorities
— Jordan (@ImitationJordan) April 15, 2015
https://twitter.com/mountaindeux/status/588415058704629760
@pushinghoops @ahmadmzaghal I am a vegan disgusted by @peta for this and one million reasons. Not all vegans stand with them!
— Katy Otto (@exfkaty) April 15, 2015
@pushinghoops nobody likes them. drunk uncle of veganism doing more damage than good
— SAREEN (@sareeny) April 15, 2015
@pushinghoops they don't even care about animals, just that we shouldn't have anything to do w them
— Abu Naya Underwood (@ibbers) April 15, 2015
@pushinghoops @Favstar250 While I am OK with meatless meals in jails, I still hate that racial profiling old geezer.
— 101 Boogster Street (@BoogsterSU2) April 16, 2015
You folks realize what Arpaio puts people, you know, ACTUAL HUMANS, through in those jails, @peta?? FOH.
— La Xicanista (@LaXicanista) April 15, 2015
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