There's a McDonald's on every other street corner. There is no doubt that much of the meat, milk, and eggs in the grocery store are produced in factory farms, under incredibly undesirable conditions. It is good to shake up corporate America once in awhile, which is what PETA does. Besides, parody and satire are fine traditions, having been used against such lardbags as George the Third during the American revolution. PETA 'gets' parody. . .
Parody is the great equalizer.
Like gravity and the law, no public person nor institution should be above it. The basis of parody is humor, and like any joke, it lives or dies depending on the kernel of truth in it. A parody that insinuated that George W. Bush doesn't dress well wouldn't work, because he does dress well. Michael Doughney was a co-founder of an Internet Service Provider called Digex. Among domain names that Doughney paid for was PETA.ORG .