Pretenders screech-whore Chrissie Hynde is a big PETA backer. She can’t stand fur. Hates the rodeo. Even complains about the Running of the Bulls. (I always thought a half-ton side of beef could pretty much take care of itself…)
So I did a momentary WTF double-take yesterday when I saw that Hynde and her group will be doing an August 19 concert this summer — at the Minnesota Zoo.
PETA and its whole world of bunny huggers don’t like zoos. (Oops: I meant to say that they “don’t like institutionalized imprisonment of our wild animal friends.”) And it’s not like Chrissie is unaware of this fact. Check out this snippet from a 2004 interview she gave to the Australian activist group “Animal Liberation”:
June: “I despise zoos and circuses with animals. What about you Chrissie?”
Chrissie: “The animals have got to be free.”
Oh, sure … the animals have got to be free. But the concert tickets? Not so much. The Star-Tribune notes:
The concert is commanding the highest zoo ticket price ever — $68. The previous high was $54 for Hootie and the Blowfish in 2008.
$68 to hear a washed-up PETA-worshiping rock band — at a zoo? For that kind of money, Chrissie Hynde had better personally meet me backstage draped in mink, riding a rodeo bull, and drinking the blood of an endangered marsupial.
Of course, for the right amount of money, perhaps her prohibition against supporting zoos is, shall we say, “flexible”? So I wouldn’t put the mink coat past her.
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$68 bucks! I get to see 38 Special, Scandal and Loverboy for $20 this summer.
She also has her vegan restaurant in Ohio and during a interview on a local radio station, made it a point to indicate her dislike of Texans who enjoy beef.
It’s not nice to hear from you Chrissy you sniping-trivial-has-been-hypocrite. I’m hoping JRod would tap it and tell her to shut her pie hole or she get’s no more of his good lovin…(as I’ve heard – no experience)
Typical PeTA vamp attitude; being an animal nazi and forgetting it if it concern clothing, footwear or a paycheck.
Wait, who?
She sucked back then. Now she sucks and is a blow hard.
She was jsut recently on Later with Jools on the BBC. She looked like an older, uglier Madonna.
And her new songs sucked.
Want more PETA madness? A few years ago, they bought a billboard in my town that pictured a guy in a chicken suit toting an M-16 assault rifle with words to the effect of “What if the animals could fight back?” or somesuch.
Where was this billboard located? Above the parking lot of the County Mental Health Center! Imagine if somebody with schizophrenia looked out the window and saw that!
I could have sworn Chrissie Hynde was dead. You’d never guess she wasn’t, from that photo.
At the zoo she can visit her fellow hippo-crites. Zing!
Given what PeTA does with animals after it “rescues” them, I’m not surprised to hear they hate zoos. You know, since zoos actually work to *save* animals and preserve endangered species and all.
In this article from a couple of months ago, Chrissie Hynde made excuses for PETA’s pet killing ways thusly:
Chrissie Hynde, former lead singer of The Pretenders and a Peta supporter, said: “It’s curious that the meat and tobacco industries, who destroy innumerable human lives with their ‘goods’, and billions of animals producing them, try to incite public outrage by throwing stones at a charity who’s very existence is to promote the welfare of animals and offer to put suffering animals out of their misery.”
Never mind that there are animal welfare organizations that nurse dogs and cats back to health and find homes for them rather than killing them. Apparently PETA and Hynde would rather see these animals dead than have them become pets.
Hynde is an extremist idiot. This is the broad who wants to bomb shopping malls and said at a concert a few years back that she hoped the Muslims win in the war on terrorism. She then had one of her band members bully people in the audience who objected to her outburst.
I wonder if those are leather boots she’s wearing in that picture.
The animals have got to be free.
Shall we take up a collection to pay the tiger keeper to take Chrissie’s advice, midshow?
Let’s put her and her Peta friends in a tiger enclosure and watch how many she saves. I hear there is a tiger in Memphis that just LOVES when a human gets in his cage to “assist” him.
I have to admit, when I first looked at the pic up there I thought it was Keith Richards for a second.
Baba Yaga, I THOUGHT that was her (w/the hoping for American blood and death). May she be mauled by every wild thing out there. That’s my happy little wish for her today. (SPARKLE, TWING!)
Something I’ve always wondered, and maybe someone here can answer for me:
What do animal rights nutcases do if their homes get infested with cockroaches?
Good question, Vince. I suppose they hold a fundraiser to buy the roaches their own place, or something.
Cockroaches don’t count because they aren’t cute.
Then again, tigers aren’t that cute when they’re hungry and chasing you, but I’m sure that hasn’t stopped anyone from protesting, say, LSU’s treatment of Mike the tiger.
I’ve never actually met anyone that likes The Pretenders.
Aww, Beige. I can’t believe you passed up a chance at a roach motel reference.
Wow, what a bunch of haters. Is this where all the Repubs hang out, now that they’ve been kicked from power? You know, gorging on raw meat, sneering at any who prefer nonsentient food, and yearning for the days of Buckshot Cheney? Amusing, in a freakshow kind of way. Don’t choke on your own bile – remember to breath in between bites of red meat!
Thank you for showing us all how to love.
So if you are not vegetarian/vegan, that makes you a republican? This was very educational, thank you. Wow, this day went surprisingly well, not only did I learn about guerrilla white sharks in our planet (namely, in Oklahoma City), I also found out that eating meat wasn’t bipartisan. I feel so enlightened…
A former boss of mine is a Jain, a Hindu sect that believes in the sanctity of all living things and thus doesn’t eat any meat, go hunting, etc. They usually don’t own dogs or cats because they don’t want meat in their houses. But even they will call the exterminator for cockroach infestation.
And now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go eat my yummy steak dinner, even if it does turn me into a Republican.
ok now you see why she hates the idea of celebrities and those bloggers in their mother’s basement who harp on people better than them!
the show has been cancelled and the people at the zoo were the ones who jacked up ticket prices because most of the shows this summer are free! and she was planning a Peta movement lashing out against zoos!
you gullible people are on someones side until one of your kind says something bad about something/someone and to try and fit in you say the same thing
Wow. It must be fascinating to live in such a Crayola world as that inhabited by Triston and Spatha. Anyone who doesn’t agree with you is automatically a loathsome right-winger. Guess what? You don’t agree with me, so that makes you a godless, babykilling, treehugging, child-molesting, scrawny communist with long, dirty hair.
See? Now everybody’s happy. You don’t actually have to think or examine your sophomoric little prejudices, and I get to go back to cleaning my gun.
hey i wasnt saying you had to agree with me because im not an animal killing commie!
and im not a sophomore yet! im going to be a freshman!
but thats not the point because either way i was only stating the fact and telling you the TRUTH! but its really fine if you have your opinion and we have ours. i just think people deserve to know both sides first.
and never call me a babykilling child molester because i have a cousin who was molested and is now in therapy and my baby brother was killed 7 years ago
you fuckin mainstream pop princess bitch
Aw. He thinks I’m Britney Spears, y’all. Kids are so cute.
why the hell do i bother?
…Because it’s funny when you do?
go to starbucks and ill go to the bar we both win
Whoa, what a burn…from 1998.
Just get your chores done, junior. THEN you can bust out the fake ID and head out.
Looks like a photo shopped image. That sign is fake as hell…
*facepalm* @ the anonymous commenter.