MONTPELIER, Vt. — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is taking its campaign against Canadian seal harvesting to America, urging consumers to boycott Canadian-made maple syrup.
Three PETA activists — one dressed as a baby seal — campaigned outside the Statehouse in Montpelier on Tuesday, smashing a likeness of a maple syrup bottle until it squirted red “blood” — it was really theatrical makeup — onto the sidewalk.
Passersby didn’t need much coaxing, though. Nineteen-year-old Anna Macijeski of Northfield, said she never buys Canadian maple syrup anyway.
Campaign coordinator Jena Hunt says similar demonstrations are planned this week at state capitals in Maine and New York.