Full Of Hot Air

Full Of Hot Air

It seems that balloons won’t be the only thing full of hot air this year at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. We knew the day was coming when animal rights activists would attack Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. It was inevitable really. With their track record for staging outlandish publicity stunts to garner media attention, staging a protest at one of the country’s most widely loved, attended and viewed events that is steeped in holiday tradition was an obvious choice. What’s all the uproar over? Why the 50th anniversary of SeaWorld float of course. Macy’s representatives say the parade will go on as planned whether PETA likes the SeaWorld float or not - that the parade is about entertainment and holiday tradition, not politics. And of course a couple of Hollywood’s elite have decided to get in on the fray as well, because like they say in Hollywood “there’s no such thing as bad press”. I found a SeaWorld spokesman’s comment very interesting, that “while PETA is busy planning their latest publicity stunt, dozens of rescued animals are being treated by SeaWorld staff in preparation for return to the wild”.
PETA likes to say that “together, we can make the world a better place for all beings”, but apparently they don’t extend that courtesy to humans.  

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