The Milwaukee Sentinel refused to run the ad. But The Des Moines Register ran it last week, to the protests of meatpackers. “[It is] the most tasteless, demented, twisted piece of garbage I’ve seen in a long time,” Charles Harness of the National Pork Producers Council in Des Moines told the Register. “It shows how crazy these people are.” PETA was unapologetic. “We’re offended by the slaughter of 16 million animals every day,” a spokeswoman said. Officials at the Register admitted there had been some in-house debate about accepting the ad. but, “while graphic in expression,” said ad manager Nancy Trafton-Dyer, “[it] wasn’t posing anything illegal and was expressing the opinion of one group.”
