Newspaper Rejects PETA Ad on Bus Decapitation

Group aimed to use murder to push anti-meat message

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 8, 2008 8:03 AM CDT

(Newser) – A Canadian newspaper has nixed a PETA ad that likened the decapitation of a bus passenger to the killing of animals in slaughterhouses, reports AP. The animal rights group had sought to run the ad, depicting a throat being cut, in a city close to... Read full story »

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