Deviled doggerel from the (in)delicatessen

Why is it that small focus groups with passionate leaders grow into huge, blunt instruments wielded by crackpot fanatics?

Teresa's Making Light drew my attention to PETA's New Comic for Kids. As usual, I had to try to find some understanding, some rationalisation to explain how the leaders of PETA could think their campaign was doing anything to further their cause. I tried putting myself in Ingrid Newkirk's non-animal-product shoes:

It's very easy to explain
morality prescribed by pain.
You see it's clear, all must abstain
from hurting flesh that boasts a brain.


To those whose eyes perceive, it's plain --
the kindness of our cruel campaign:
"Who shocks the cradle can constrain
the thoughts this world will entertain."


So stuff your "spare the kids" disdain
and logic-based legerdemain.
Sadly, sincerely, I remain,
Ingrid, ineffectual...
yet again.

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