Pro-vegetarian author, reality TV contestant and PETA Vice President Bruce Friedrich was scheduled to duke it out tonight with Columbia's Parliamentary Debate team over the question "Is Eating Meat Ethical?" Peta2, PETA's youth division has held these debates at colleges all over the country, from the University of Texas (wonder how that went?) to Harvard and Princeton. However, PETA tells us that that Columbia abruptly cancelled the event without explanation. Dunh dunh DUNH!
PETA says that there were "roadblocks and resistance from university administrators" but does not specify what those were. However in their email, they state that Friedrich is "persona non grata on the campus following his disruption of a 2004 commencement ceremony while protesting animal experimentation at the university."
The group also points out that Columbia has allowed numerous controversial visitors to speak, "including Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad--making the university's concern about Friedrich's scheduled appearance, which had been in the works for months, all the more surprising."
We're awaiting a comment from Columbia University, but perhaps the administration is attempting to protect the fragile, drug-addled minds of their students from PETA's irresistible rhetoric (who can resist soyrizo?) and their battalions of naked girls in cages. Here's some things that are not up for debate: 9/11 was an inside job, the Holocaust never happened and there are no gays in Iran.
