{"id":239171,"date":"2010-01-27T22:54:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T03:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=90685"},"modified":"2010-01-27T22:54:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T03:54:21","slug":"peta-groundhog-day-protest-animal-rights-group-wants-punxsutawney-phil-replaced-with-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/239171","title":{"rendered":"PETA Groundhog Day Protest; Animal Rights Group Wants Punxsutawney Phil Replaced With Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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….Sometimes, there simply are no words……<\/p>\n

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals<\/a> (PETA) is on a mission to save Punxsutawney Phil. The animal rights group has suggested the season-predicting groundhog, appointed to determine how long we’ll have to tolerate Ol’ Man Winter each year, should be replaced with a robot, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review<\/em> reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The tomfoolery of this organization never ceases to amaze me. Why are these people allowed to walk the streets without medication?<\/p>\n

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Gemma Vaughan, an Animals in Entertainment Specialist with PETA, penned a letter to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club on Wednesday arguing that keeping Phil on display year-round is a “cruel” way to treat the animal. Blah….Blah…Blah!<\/p>\n

“Make the compassionate decision to use an animatronic Phil and retire the live groundhogs who are used for Groundhog Day activities to a sanctuary,”<\/em> Vaughan wrote in the plea. “Tradition is no excuse for cruelty.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Bill Deeley, president of the Club, has called the request “crazy.”<\/p>\n

“Phil is probably treated better than the average child in Pennsylvania,”<\/em> Deeley said. “He’s got air conditioning in the summer, his pen is heated in winter … He has everything but a TV in there. What more do you want?”<\/em><\/p>\n

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….Sometimes, there simply are no words…… People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is on a mission to save Punxsutawney Phil. The animal rights group has suggested the season-predicting groundhog, appointed to determine how long we’ll have to tolerate Ol’ Man Winter each year, should be replaced with a robot, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}