PETA Gets Blasted for Defaming "The Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin

PETA is under fire for their reaction on social media to a Google Doodle that was made to honor the late Steve Irwin, also known as "The Crocodile Hunter."
PETA is under fire for their reaction on social media to a Google Doodle that was made to honor the late Steve Irwin, also known as "The Crocodile Hunter."
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Animal rights activists group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), has come under fire across the internet after bashing the late animal conservationist Steve Irwin.

During a reply on Twitter regarding a Google Doodle cartoon that was celebrating the life of “The Crocodile Hunter,” PETA decided to take the opportunity to rile up some controversy:

 

The animal rights group doubled down with some follow up tweets regarding Irwin, a famous TV personality from Australia who was tragically killed by a string ray while filming a documentary in 2006:

 

It wasn’t long before social media users came to the defense of Irwin, following what should have been a remembrance the conservationist on his birthday, and called out PETA’s hypocrisy. Many tweets pointed out how PETA doesn’t save many animals with the money it gets through donations:

 

Others posts were funny in a MEME fashion:

 

Actor Drake Bell even got in on the act of bashing PETA:

 

Someone went onto Wikipedia and updated PETA’s page with some not so flattering information:

 

The whole public relations debacle even pointed out that PETA uses an auto response message anytime someone uses the hashtag #donate during an interaction with the animal rights group:

 

If nothing else, the experience helped people better remember the work that Irwin did during his life to help animals:

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