PETA issues swap deal: Punxsutawney Phil for a vegan cake
The animal activist organization doesn't plan on leaving the club empty-handed, offering a 'weather-reveal' vegan cake in his place.
In a letter to club president Tom Dunkel, PETA offered the cake in exchange for placing Phil and his family in an animal sanctuary.
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How could the cake tell the weather, you may ask?
Well, according to PETA, the dessert would have one of two colors: blue or pink.
Should blue be on the inside of the cake, it would signify an extra six weeks of winter. If it were pink, an early start to spring would be on the horizon.
'When allowed to be themselves, groundhogs avoid humans, create intricate networks of underground burrows, communicate with one another, and even climb trees, but poor Phil is denied all of that for a tired old gimmick,' PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said in the release.
Despite PETA's opposition, the Groundhog Day tradition dates back to 1887, and thousands flock to the central Pennsylvania borough to celebrate.
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