‘Go eat a couch if you want’ (Photo: Instagram / Whoopi Goldberg)
American actor and TV personality Whoopi Goldberg has been slammed for having a ‘triggered fit’ over plant-based meat.
The celebrity featured on talk show The View earlier this month, where she defended her right to consume bacon.
“What I don’t want is no choice…,” the star said. “I like the bacon, I want the bacon, you don’t have to eat it… No one should tell you that you can’t have something.”
The comment received backlash from animal-rights charity PETA, who said it couldn’t help but ‘call-out’ Goldberg for her ‘rant on The View’.
‘Enormous suffering’
“Really, Whoopi? Eating bacon is your Friday cause? Your ‘choice’ really hurts. Be kind,” PETA said. “Animals should have a choice though. Eating bacon causes enormous suffering and ends a pig’s life.
“It’s so easy to make choices that don’t support suffering and death. We urge you to consider that.”
‘Making a fuss’
“Hey I understand PETA is making a fuss because I like bacon,” Goldberg tweeted to her 1.5 million followers.
“I never said I was a vegan, and just like I want choice over my body, I want the same for what goes into my body. I would NEVER suggest that ANYONE pressure any one of YOU to change your vegan habits. Go eat a couch if you want.”
‘Animals are not property’
The star’s response added to the controversy, with a plethora of vegans highlighting the cruelty of bacon.
“You spoke a truth in you that you didn’t realize you had, Whoopi,” one user tweeted.
“Animals are not property just as human beings are not property. They don’t belong to us. They deserve to have control over what happens to their bodies just as we do.”
Exposing the Big Game 
We all have to face the inevitable that because of the greediness and carelessness of those who came before us (and it hasn’t stopped with today’s bunch either), in the future we won’t have a choice, or a lot less of them.
Yes, animals have the right to control over their bodies too.
So, maybe Whoopi should follow her own example and stop with the endless rants about the evils of white supremacists and racism and the supposed benefits of a tolerant, multi-racial, diverse society. After all, racial intolerance is a personal choice also. And as long as nothing illegal is being done, who is Ms. Goldberg to condemn skinheads or try and force her ethical viewpoint on others? A second rate actress but a first rate hypocrite!
A dyed in the wool speciesist.
It always bothers me to know that humans who have known racism and suffering, can turn around and treat another being badly without a thought. Not all, but many people do this – believing humans don’t owe any other creature anything. If we were given the ‘gifts’ that we so often overpraise ourselves for, such as empathy compassion, where are they?