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.

Friday, February 3, 2012

PETA to prison officials: Meat-free diet would benefit alleged Connecticut cannibal

By Randall Beach, Register Staff

An animal rights group has a suggestion for how prison officials might calm down a defendant accused of killing a man and eating part of his brain: a meatless diet.

An official with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Thursday wrote to Warden Jose Feliciano Jr. of the New Haven Correctional Center, recommending “you ensure alleged killer and cannibal Tyree Smith swears off flesh forever by providing him with exclusively vegan meals.”

But when the New Haven Register contacted Feliciano for his response, he said, “He’s not here. He’s at Bridgeport (Correctional Center).” The alleged crime occurred in that city, in an abandoned home.

The Register relayed this information to a PETA spokesman, who said the letter would be sent to the Bridgeport facility.

Smith, 35, is charged with hacking a homeless man to death with an ax, taking out his eyeball and a piece of his brain, then eating the brain particle, according to a story moved by the Associated Press.

Smith’s cousin told police Smith had confessed to killing Angel “Tun Tun” Gonzalez, removing his eyeball and brain fragment and eating it. He reportedly added he washed it down with a milkshake.

Smith also allegedly told his cousin that he had developed a lust for blood after eating a rare steak.

Smith is on a suicide watch and psychiatric care at the Bridgeport Correctional Center.

“Studies show that vegetarian meals can reduce violence among offenders -- and if anyone needs a reduction in violence, it’s someone who (allegedly) killed and ate another human being,” said PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk. “PETA can help New Haven Correctional Center introduce a menu of bean burritos instead of burgers and so save many lives.”

Lindsay Rajt, PETA’s associate director of campaigns, said in the letter: “If Smith did, in fact, kill Angel Gonzalez and eat parts of his body, that would demonstrate a disturbing taste for flesh.” Continued...

“Opting to feed him only vegan foods and denying him meat (flesh) could diminish such a tendency and thus potentially help protect staff and neighboring inmates,” Rajt reasoned.

“In fact, a meat-free meal plan could benefit all your other inmates too,” Rajt added.

According to Rajt, officials at a maximum security prison in Alabama have switched inmates to vegetarian meals and found it helps reduce violence.

Rajt also said every vegan meal served at a prison “would spare helpless animals from their own death penalties” and avoid cruel treatment “not unlike that which Smith allegedly inflicted on Angel Gonzalez.”


The Middletown Press

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