Basically took two of the Beastie Boys signatures obtained in the airport, and drafted a letter (posing as the Beastie Boys wrote it) denoucing the killing of chickens and photoshopped their signatures onto the letter.
In response to PETA's recent campaign, Adam Yauch wrote the following letter...
"Wow, **** gets hectic quick. Sign a petition in an airport and next thing you know you’re a poster-boy. This **** needs some straightening out.
For the record, we did not draft this letter. Basically it went down like this; a lady was walking around an airport in Australia asking people to sign something. When she approached me I thought (and I assume that Adam and Mike did as well) that it was a petition that she was getting as many signatures on as she could. So I signed it thinking that I might be able to help out with stopping some unnecessary suffering of some birds. But I thought that my name would appear in conjunction with thousands of others.
By the look of the letter that PETA sent out, they must have scanned our signatures, photo shopped them neatly in order and then added our names typed in, so that it would look like we drafted and sent the letter ourselves.
And from all the news hits they got on this, they must have sent it out to every news outlet they could get a hold of.
The strangest part of it is that the press just printed it without checking in to see if we really wrote or sent the letter.
I’m sure PETA is well intentioned, but seriously, what the ****? Pull your **** together. If we want to draft an open letter to someone and send it out to the media we’ll do it ourselves.
-Yauch"
