"Why doesn't it shock me that PETA goes out of their way to deceptively leech Benicio del Toro's celebrity status for their own screwed up extremist agenda? This is what Primera Hora is reporting in Puerto Rico.
Here's what happened: Last week PETA released a letter that was allegedly penned by Benicio del Toro and address to the governor of Puerto Rico Luis Fortuño. In the letter Benicio supposedly urges the governor to block the company Bioculture from building a primate farm in Guayama. The letter goes on to say that he would even join the mayor of Guayama in any civil disobedience efforts that would help stop the project.
Oh boy.
Primera Hora has his father, Gustavo del Toro, go on record to do damage control. He explained PETA's announcement of the letter came as a surprise to them. PETA not only failed to present this letter to Benicio as a petition that he co-signed, they also lied about Benicio's penning the letter in the first place. Even worse is the fact that the "letter" makes it look like Del Toro is willing to do any civil disobedience actions to stop the construction. Last but not least, the timing of this letter was suspect. The original letter Benicio signed was dated September 2nd. His father says that had he been asked two signed any statement two weeks ago (when Fortuño threw the island's economic crisis into a tailspin by laying off 17,000 workers), he would not have signed the petition.
Even though I am for the ethical treatment of animals, I am absolutely opposed to the work of PETA. It's not just for their twisted janseist mission that says even cockroaches have rights, but for the mysoginistic and exploitative PR tactics that it uses to line it's coffers. I rarely use the word "hate" for advocacy organization but PETA's shameless famewhoring puts them up there with extremists like Limbaugh, Coulter, Malkin and Beck."
