The South Dakota Cattlemen’s Association have asked that singer Joan Jett be removed from their float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Jett is a long time vegetarian and PETA supporter. A Macy’s spokesman said Jett and her band The Blackhearts will be moved to another float. The S.D. ranchers were the ones to raise the alarm.

“’So, of course, when we learned that about Miss Jett, we were rightly concerned about her representing South Dakota and a state that is so heavily reliant on agriculture and livestock production to drive our economy,’” said Jodie Anderson of the South Dakota Cattlemen’s Association.

The following quote from Jett is interesting. Jett didn’t decide to switch floats; parade officials switched her to a different float at the ranchers’ request.

“I’ve decided to switch from South Dakota to another float because people’s political agendas were getting in the way of what should be a purely entertainment driven event,” Jett said in a statement Saturday. “I will remain focused on entertaining the millions of people watching, who will be celebrating a great American tradition.”

Jett belongs to the world’s largest animal rights group that promotes a vegetarian diet and condemns ranches and factory farms. Why would she have agreed to be on that particular float? The reason she agreed may be because Jett has raised awareness for her cause. PETA is quite pleased with the parade controversy.

“Thanks to South Dakota’s reactionary ranchers, people across the country have learned why Joan Jett supports PETA. The meat trade can’t stand any scrutiny of its cruelty,” PETA Senior Vice President Dan Mathews said in a statement.

According to PETA, Jett has some issues with the Butterball Corp., so she has recorded a message for PETA on their hotline.

“’Workers at a Butterball plant were recently documented punching and kicking live birds, slamming them against metal trailers, and worse,’ says Joan in the exclusive PETA recording for PETA’s vegetarian hotline, 1-888-VEG-FOOD. ‘Please join me in calling Butterball’s Turkey Talk Line to tell their operators that there is no appropriate way to cook a tortured bird. Call 1-800-BUTTERBALL.’”

It sounds like Jett would be a fun guest to invite over for Thanksgiving dinner. Calling the Butterball Turkey Talk Line and telling them off sounds like a good time too. If the Butterball farm worker’s really are torturing turkeys, calling the how to cook a turkey hotline, then spouting off at the phone operators, probably won’t help solve the turkey abuse.

PETA members have been known to throw red paint at fashion shows onto runways. They even had the nerve to flour bag Kim Kardashian at a red carpet event. That’s like throwing a bucket of tomato sauce at a member of the mafia outside of the restaurant he owns.

The New Yorker writes that PETA activists have crawled through the streets of Paris wearing leg-hold traps and thrown around money soaked in fake blood at the International Fur Fair. In 2011, PETA named five orcas as plaintiffs and sued SeaWorld over the animals’ enslavement, seeking their protection under the Thirteenth Amendment. A federal judge heard the case and dismissed it in early 2012.

The PETA organization is not all bad; after all they are advocates for the ethical treatment of animals. PETA has exposed many atrocities that were being committed against animals by humans. They have promoted positive changes for their cause, despite their outlandish tactics.

A new parade controversy has bloomed since the Jett scandal. SeaWorld has a float in the Macy’s Day Parade. PETA is protesting and petitioning against this float, as they believe that keeping animals as hostages for human entertainment is unethical. Macy’s isn’t budging on this one, the SeaWorld float will sail.