PETA WATCH

News just in from Canada:


26 January 2010

A PETA activist, unhappy with Canada's seal hunt, was arrested yesterday after striking Fisheries Minister Gail Shea in the face with a pie moments after she began speaking at an event in Burlington. Ms. Shea said she was shocked when she was hit by the tofu cream pie. She said she remains steadfast in her approval of the controversial seal hunt. "This just strengthens my resolve to support the seal hunt and Canadian sealers," Ms. Shea said. Sergeant Brian Carr, a spokesman with the Halton Regional Police, said New York resident Emily McCoy, 37, is charged with assault.


27 January 2010

An incident in which the federal fisheries minister was hit with a tofu cream pie by a PETA protester should be seen as a terrorist act, says a Liberal MP. Gerry Byrne made the comment to Newfoundland radio station VOCM after Gail Shea was hit in the face on Monday by an American animal-rights activist, unhappy with Canada's seal hunt.

29 January 2010

A People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) protester was on the receiving end of a pieing on Friday. Emily Lavender stood outside a hotel where Prime Minister Stephen Harper was slated to talk Friday before meeting with Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams. Dressed as a seal and protesting the hunt, Ms. Lavender was accosted by the dog mascot for Downhome Magazine who came up behind Lavender and pulled her around, tripping her in the process. Her seal head went flying and, as the dog mascot helped pull Lavender up, he pied her in the face and ran off down the street.