Oscar Mayer Dies

[Bart Lidofsky]

Oscar Mayer (yes, his last name is a bit different than the company name) died this Monday. In accordance with his final wish, he is being turned into an Oscar Meyer Weiner.

Let the other bad jokes begin!

[Datalapper]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef011571e90e52970b-500wi


Now, in the wake of the former chairman's death, PETA is asking the company to "bury the Wienermobile along with Mr. Mayer." In a letter to Oscar Mayer company president Nick Meriggioli, PETA executive vice president Tracy Reiman offers her condolences before saying that "laying someone to rest can be an occasion to examine a life as well as an opportunity to send a positive message.

"The Wienermobile travels around the country and entices children to try Oscar Mayer meats that can set them on the road to developing life-threatening illnesses," Reiman continues, citing a Harvard study linking children's consumption of cured meat products to increased risk of developing leukemia.

...and concludes the letter by suggesting the Oscar Mayer company "perhaps go a step further" by launching a line of vegetarian products. -latimes
(http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/07/peta-asks-oscar-mayer-to-bury-wienermobile.html) Can't these PETA nuts give it a rest?? Now that the chairman has passed, they want the company to "bury the Wienermobile" and go vegetarian? WTF.
Why can't they just stick to their cruelty to animals meme and stop trying to get the whole world to go vegan?
I mean the guy lived to be freakin 95 years old. How bad can the stuff be? You're not supposed eat it every day.