PETA wasn't so terrible then(1989, I think) as now. But then, they didn't have so much celebrity money(that any number of non-profits, including the ASPCA, could use better; I say this as someone who's worked a lot in non-profit) to waste on paying towns to rename themselves "Veggieburg" or re-brand fish as "sea kittens."

Remember too that, not long before this, Morrison did a whole issue on the ambiguities of the subject of animal rights activism, where an AR group sets fire to a lab and firefighters are killed putting it out, at which point Buddy is not really sure what's right or wrong anymore.

By the way, OH MY GOD THAT WAS 20 YEARS AGO I AM NOW SO EFFING OLD. Argh.