New PETA Ad Features the Late Bea Arthur Attacking McDonald’s from the Grave

(HMG) – During her lifetime, actress Bea Arthur was a noted activist for animal rights. Now in a full-page ad running today (almost a year to the day of her death) in the Chicago Tribune sponsored by PETA, features a portrait of Arthur, and takes aim at McDonald’s and the factory farming of chickens. The ad is entitled “McCruelty”.

The sub-headline reads: “It’s enough to make Bea Arthur roll over in her grave.”

“Death couldn’t stop this Golden Girl from fighting the Golden Arches’ cruel slaughter practices,” the text begins.

The ad describes Ms. Arthur as “a longtime People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) campaigner against factory-farm abuse” who “left money to PETA in her will.” The funds are being used “to pressure McDonald’s to switch to a less violent, U.S.D.A.-approved chicken-slaughter method,” referring to the United States Department of Agriculture.

It ends by borrowing a line Arthur was famous for in her hit ’70s sitcom, Maude: “God’ll get you for that.”