PETA is hoping to change some minds at the white supremacist rally in Washington, D.C., this weekend.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants Unite the Right attendees and counterprotesters to agree on eating their vegetables and agree to leave meat and fish in their natural environments.
“Humor is a powerful weapon, so PETA is adding a pinch of it to an event that’s leaving a sour taste in a lot of mouths,” PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said in a statement. “Skin color, species, gender, and religion shouldn’t count for a bean when it comes to how any living being is treated.”
The organization will have its human-size dancing vegetable mascots on scene at 5:30 p.m. ET Sunday calling for “nonviolence and compassion for all.”
Colonel Corn and Chris P. Carrot will be just north of the White House at Lafayette Park — the site of the main rally — urging people to “Give Peas a Chance” and “Peace in Our Lunchtime.”
Last year’s Unite the Right event in Charlottesville, Va., ended in violent fights between attendees and counter-protesters. A counter-protester, Heather Heyer, was killed when a man drove a car into a crowd in a street.
