PETA vs. Nathan's Hot Dog Contest

While many people were at cookouts, and Fourth of July parties, a vicious assault took place at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. If you haven't seen the footage yet, I'll link it below. Essentially, a couple PETA/animal rights members bum rushed the stage and sprayed numerous contestants with fake blood. Security quickly went to work expelling the trespassers off of the stage, and the contest continued without a hitch. However, for a few short moments the contestants were rattled and thrown off. Let me get something off my chest, I'm not anti-PETA, I would categorize myself as someone against animal cruelty. But that being said I have to disagree with PETA on this one and here's why...

First off, I'm not going to tell people what to eat and what not to eat. I don't care if you eat meat, if you don't eat meat, or if you don't eat at all, whatever floats your boat is cool with me. What really grinds my gears is the people that try to tell you what to eat. We have all seen the meme's and heard stories about the vegans that look down on people that eat meat. It also goes the other way, I've seen meat eaters criticize vegans. At the end of the day, worry about yourself it shouldn't matter what someone eats. So why does PETA think they have the right to tell these people they can't shovel meat down their gullets?

The next problem I have with this is that PETA was protesting the wrong thing. Why protest against people eating hot dogs for the sake of eating meat? It's pretty well known that hot dogs are like the leftover meat, so why let it go to waste. I could see an argument being made for having a televised event in which many people can eat as much food as they can for free when there are plenty of people in this world who don't know where their next meal is coming from.

Finally, who do these protesters think they are? Fourth of July is America's birthday. America, the land of the free, so if these competitive eaters want to stuff as much food down their throats as they want, let them. Don't ruin an American tradition, like Nathan's. Protest on July 3rd, or July 5th, but not on the Fourth. Go to a cookout, have a couple stews and celery sticks, and leave meat eaters alone. Shout out to the security guards that wrangled these hooligans like they were cattle. They threw them off stage into the waiting arms of other security guards in a matter of seconds. One last point, these are the most selfish animal rights activists out there, people want to see records, but no these clowns had to rush the stage and rattle the minds of the contestants Joey Chestnut would have eaten 100 hot dogs if it wasn't for these guys, no doubt in my mind. The world got robbed of the greatest eating feat of all time.