If this somehow (oh please, please let it happen) led to an actual brawl between the NAACP and PETA, I’d put my entire paycheck…nay, my entire life savings on the NAACP.

NEW HAVEN — A two-hour animal rights demonstration on the Green Monday sparked outrage instead of sympathy from the public.

“This is the most racist thing I’ve ever seen on the Green. How dare you,” roared Philip Goldson, 43, of New Haven at the protest organizers at Church and Chapel streets.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a national animal rights group, posted giant photographs of people, mostly black Americans, being tortured, sold and killed, next to photographs of animals, including cattle and sheep, being tortured, sold and killed.

“I think it is an apt comparison,” said Josh Warchol, 26, of Wallingford, president of the Southern Connecticut Vegetarian Society, which is aligned with PETA.

Josh Warchol, as you can probably guess, is not black. I somehow doubt that the little pale vegetarian would fare very well in an actual fight to defend his principals against some of those meat-eating NAACP’ers.

“You can’t compare me to a freaking cow,” shouted John Darryl Thompson, 46, of New Haven, inches from Carr’s face. “We don’t care about PETA. You are playing a dangerous game.”

That may very well be the best quote I’ve read or heard in a very long time.

I’m not a big fan of either the NAACP (more accurately, with some of the NAACP’s current leadership and mouthpieces) nor of PETA. In fact, in this list, I wrote:

• #29 — I think that PETA and the ACLU are run by a bunch of idiots that do more harm than good.
• #44 — I believe that the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the entire NAACP have done more to divide and segregate this country than they have done to bring it together.

But in this matter, I gotta side 100% with the NAACP.

What was PETA trying to convey in this campaign?

We should be treating animals according to their own best interests, not to the best interests of people,” said Dawn Carr, PETA’s director of special projects.

Uh, Dawn—it is in the best interests of people to eat. And cows are very good (nutritionally speaking as well as from a tasty-perspective!) for eating. So are fish, chickens, pigs, and even cute little bunny rabbits and peaceful doves (mmmm… bacon-wrapped dove breasts, stuffed with jalapenos, cooked on an open grill).

If you haven’t seen the Penn & Teller: Bullshit episode on PETA yet, you should definitely check it out (turns out PETA actually kills more animals every year than it saves).

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h/t Michelle Malkin