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PETA Upset Over Google Goat-Mowers

by Lee Bains on May 6, 2009 at 08:24 AM


In this week's installment of What-Else-Is-New? news, PETA is bent out of shape (as usual) over Google's corporate headquarters being weird (as usual).

According to a MyFOX National report, Google hired a herd of goats last week to cut the grass on the property of its California headquarters. The hooved groundskeepers numbered somewhere in the vicinity of 200 and, no doubt, delighted Google's notoriously empowered and peppy employees with their general frolicking. Not so delighted, though, were the folks over at the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Apparently bound and determined to alienate the tech-savvy, the animal rights organization, according to MyFOXDC, expressed concern that Google did not adequately water the goats, or provide them with sufficiently comfortable transportation. In a characteristically goofy response, Google reportedly said that the goats, independent contractors or no, were "entitled to a free organic lunch."

Hippies fighting with hippies? What is the world coming to? [From: MyFOX DC, via Fark]

Tags: funny, goat, google, green, peta, top, weird

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