Author’s New Cookbook Aims to Satirize Animal Rights Groups with Recipes Using Household Pets

In PEOPLE EATING TASTY ANIMALS, author Robert Arlen uses black humor to create a recipe book meant to shock and amuse.

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA - In PEOPLE EATING TASTY ANIMALS, Robert Arlen takes on what he feels is one animal rights group's over-the-top stance on animal rights by producing a cookbook for meals made from whales, poodles and more. Author Robert Arlen is an animal lover who has also owned two different pet stores. Yet, he increasingly found fault with the way the animal rights agencies do business to achieve their goals. Wanting to have some fun, he created PEOPLE EATING TASTY ANIMALS, a book of recipeshe intends to poke fun at such groups and generate lauther.

Arlen provides real-sounding, intricate recipes for such dishes as Cheetah Chimichanga, Barbecued Beaver and Cat Tacos. He suggests people savemoney by eating the meat of their 50-pound poodle when it dies, and he points out that a beached whale could be an economical meal choicethat could simply supple enough meat for an entire family reunion. Filled with color illustrations, the book is designedto be placed on the coffee table, opened at any page and shared with friends.

PEOPLE EATING TASTY ANIMALS is available for sale at Amazon.com, Booksurge and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.

About the author Robert Arlen has owned two pet shops, loves animals and wishes PETA had a sense of humor. He currently lives in Virginia Beach, VA and he says he has personally never tried any of the recipes in PEOPLE EATING TASTY ANIMALS.

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Ringling fights back against animal abuse allegations


Reported by: Jerry Hume
Email: jhume@wtxl.tv
Last Update: 1/27 5:27 pm

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - They're the stars of the circus. And Friday three Asian elephants because the three biggest lobbyists in Tallahassee.

Trainers from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus showed off their four ton performers to a group of legislative aides, state agency employees and even state Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda.

"I wanted to see how they're taken care of, I wanted to see their relationship between the trainers and the elephants," said Rehwinkel Vasilinda (D-Tallahassee).

The circus has been under heavy fire for years by animal rights groups, including the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA, for the circus' treatment of elephants.

Video on PETA's website, claiming to be from the circus, shows poking, prodding and cramp quarters.

"When these animals are not under the bright light in the big top, they are kept in heavy chains, barely able to take a single step and forced to stand for days on hard surfaces," said PETA Celebrity Spokesperson Cloris Leachman.

Ringling denies any animal abuse.

Trainers say the elephants are not just another animal, they're a part of their family.

"The care that we give these animals is of our upmost importance and these animals are treated better in our care than they are in the wildlife," said David Shepp, a governmental consultant for Ringling Brothers.

Ringling says the elephants are trained through reward and repetition. When they retire, they live at a 200 acre conservation center in Central Florida.

So after looking at the circus animals Friday, Rehwinkel Vasilinda is satisfied.

"As far as captivity, I think the elephants here look happy, we had a good time today," she said.

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