PETA: Sincere or Showboating?

Re “PETA Gets Roasted While Hot-Dogging” (July 27): Why do I get the impression whenever I read about People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and its antics that they are a bunch of frustrated, wannabe performers?

Attacking the Wienermobile--what does that really accomplish besides scaring kids and garnering free publicity, thus improving PETA’s sagging image in the Hollywood show-biz community.

Dressing up as pigs or parading turkeys around in wheelchairs is cute, but what happens to millions of animals deemed not cute enough by PETA is not. And that is that millions of cats and dogs die or suffer each year in pounds and on the streets.

The people who work behind the scenes, well away from the spotlight, are the true animal activists.

MARY SHELTON

Riverside