PETA keeps making headlines with their outrageous ad campaigns. Their latest one is a litigation target for sure. They’re using Tiger Woods’ image without the golfer’s permission in a snarky ad to encourage people to have their pets spayed and neutered. It reads “To Much Sex Can Be a Bad Thing” and PETA will run it on billboards, according to Radar Online. I hope this is a hoax, but given that this is PETA and Radar has quotes from them confirming this, it’s probably true. Tiger’s lawyers will be all over that for sure.

In the ad, which will run on billboards, PETA feature a picture of Woods and the message, “Too much sex can be a bad thing….for little tigers too. Help keep cats (and dogs) out of trouble: Always Spay and neuter.”

PETA hopes to run the ads on various sites, including those near to Tiger’s Windermere, FL, home!

Not surprisingly PETA say that Woods has not endorsed the ads, going on to explain though that the image and idea were “too good to pass up.”

PETA’s Executive Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch says, “The millions of cats and dogs born each year in this country without good homes to go to don’t make tabloid headlines, but their suffering is 100 percent real.”

[From Radar Online]

PETA weighs the cost of lawsuits against the publicity they’ll get by running ads like this. They probably figure it’s worth it to use Tiger’s image against his will in return for the press they’ll get.

In our last post on PETA issuing a response to Jessica Simpson wondering whether she should get a pig, some of you mentioned the group PetaKillsAnimals. This group, which definitely has it’s own agenda, tries to expose what it says is the mass euthanasia by PETA of many of the abandoned and abused animals that it takes in. They claim that PETA put down “95 percent of the dogs and cats in its care last year” and almost 21,400 animals in total since 1998. In response, someone tried to comment with a link to a blog entry from PETA that shows that most of the animals it euthanizes are research animals who are already very sick and dying. The thing is, I didn’t approve that comment (comments with links go to moderation) because the article had so many truly disturbing photos of animals with huge lacerations and gaping wounds that I could barely read it.

This is just part of the reason why PETA rubs me the wrong way. I’ve also downloaded what PETA claimed were vegetarian recipes, only to find a few recipes followed by photos of animals dead and dying in terrible factory conditions. I’m asking for vegetarian recipes, which means I’m already concerned about eating meat and am trying to change, and never even received a warning! After that, I decided to ignore PETA’s materials. I don’t eat much meat at all, like I eat vegetarian more days than not, but I feel that it’s my choice to make and scare tactics are not going to change my mind.