“The campaign I’m donating my rotten face for is ‘Dead things should be buried, not eaten.’ Being a vegetarian, it kind of shows how gory it is to see ripped off arms and ripped off hands of people of our own species. But I think it brings a campy, disturbing and grotesque realization to the fact that that’s how animals are being treated, especially in commercial farming. … There’s been a lot of focus on cannibalism. Which is funny, because if you treat all creatures the same, then a lot of Americans are cannibals.”

— Sharon Needles

Interview with PETA, quoted in "Sharon Needles, Drag Queen, Stars In PETA Halloween ‘Flesh-Eating’ Ad", HuffPost (15 October 2012) https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/sharon-needles-halloween-flesh-eating-peta-ad-cannibals-cannibalism-_n_1967323.html.

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