Instead of focusing their massive war chest, some of which comes from taxpayers, on actually saving animals — the deceptively-named People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is taking aim at the National Football League over the name of a tackle.
In a proposal sent to NFL Competition Committee Chair Rich McKay ahead of its annual league meeting this month, PETA is asking the NFL to rename the “horse-collar tackle.”
The organization argued that the term “makes light of using tight harnesses to exploit horses for labor.”
PETA suggested that the penalty be renamed the “Goodell Grab”or the “back-collar tackle.”
“Words matter, and the term ‘horse-collar tackle’ trivializes an old-style contraption that exploits horses for labor,” writes PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “You could score a touchdown for horses by instead converting it to the ‘Goodell Grab’ or ‘back-collar tackle,’ as neither of these terms normalizes animal abuse.”
The organization was previously mocked when they demanded that the baseball world replace the term “bullpen” with the term “arm barn.”
As the Gateway Pundit previously reported, PETA received a whopping $2.6 million from the COVID Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
Nearly $2 million of that loan was forgiven last June.
PETA’s total revenue in 2020 was $66,277,867, according to financial records posted on their website.
According to the Treasury, the PPP was intended for “small businesses with funds to pay up to 8 weeks of payroll costs including benefits. Funds can also be used to pay interest on mortgages, rent, and utilities.” It was meant for companies that could no longer stay afloat using conventional means, like borrowing from banks under existing credit lines. The loan comes at a low one percent interest rate and in some cases doesn’t need to be paid back.
The national average loan amount for all business types was $101,409.