Perez Tells Portman to STFU

Funny, how often Perez Hilton tells people to STFU, considering that he has such a flaming tongue. Today, Perez is putting aside his message to Stop the Slaughter and calling out vegan and animal activist Natalie Portman for an essay for the Huffington Post she wrote about veganism.

Natalie Portman is against killing. Are you, Perez?

Here is part of Portman’s response to Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals:

“I say that Foer’s ethical charge against animal eating is brave because not only is it unpopular, it has also been characterized as unmanly, inconsiderate, and juvenile. But he reminds us that being a man, and a human, takes more thought than just “This is tasty, and that’s why I do it.” He posits that consideration, as promoted by Michael Pollan in The Omnivore’s Dilemma, which has more to do with being polite to your tablemates than sticking to your own ideals, would be absurd if applied to any other belief (e.g., I don’t believe in rape, but if it’s what it takes to please my dinner hosts, then so be it).”

Perez claims that Portman is taking it too far, but has he considered that rape is the basis of the animal agriculture industry?

These animals we eat for their flesh never normally never see a member of the opposite sex of their species for their entire lives. They are artificially inseminated and made to give birth time and time again, until they are considered spent at a young age, then sent to slaughter, many not even making it through the treacherous journey to the slaughter house.

“How about from now on, you eat your lettuce and we’ll eat our steak and neither one of us brings up rape as a means of comparison?”

Perez Sez

Well, Perez, we suggest that you medidate on your quest for equal rights, your campaign against animal cruelty, and your best friend, Teddy, and consider whether that steak is yours to eat after all. The animal agriculture industry contributes at least 30% of the world’s greenhouse gasses, so maybe it’s not just Natalie’s responsibility to go veg but one that humanity needs to open up to together.