PETA Offers Troops 'Bin Laden Bites'

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals isn't normally associated with military matters but after reading news reports that described how troops are hurting for chocolate in Afghanistan the group decided to take action -- and the result is something warfighters will probably enjoy eating for more than one reason.

According to a PETA news release a longtime PETA supporter and chocolatier is making special chocolates embossed with the head of bin Laden and the words "Bin Laden bites!" 

"These delicious dark chocolate 'bin Laden Bites' give a whole new meaning to the adage 'Revenge is sweet,'" says PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk. "Our troops deserve a chuckle, and PETA's vegan chocolates will give them that as well."

In true PETA fashion the chocolates are dairy-free, which according to the release means "no cows were harmed to make them, and anyone, including lactose-intolerant soldiers, can eat them."

The release goes on to describe the group's secondary motivation for these unique confections:  "PETA has its own bone to pick with bin Laden. In addition to bin Laden's murder of humans, one of his sons wrote a memoir in which he revealed that his father gassed the younger bin Laden's two dogs in a chemical-warfare experiment. Also, countless animals suffered and died of starvation and dehydration when their guardians were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center, leaving the animals without care.

"Many more animals suffered and died from exposure to toxic fumes and from other causes when apartments in the ‘hot zone' were sealed off for many days with dogs, cats, companion rats and mice, guinea pigs, gerbils, rabbits, and fish remaining inside. In memory of them all, PETA is arranging to have extra chocolates made to be sold stateside. The proceeds will go toward PETA's free winter doghouse program and its ‘Spay and Neuter Immediately, Please!' (SNIP) mobile clinic, which provides free and low-cost companion-animal sterilizations and other vital veterinary services to residents of low-income areas."

So this holiday season thanks to PETA our troops can bite Bin Laden's head off as a way to recognize the occasion -- or maybe they can just let him melt on a hot rock somewhere at the FOB.