Six Flags is having a Halloween promotion where customers can get free entry or other benefits if they eat a live Madagascar hissing cockroach.  This type of roach can grow to between 1.5 to 3 inches.  If they break the world record for eating these roaches, they win a season pass for four people in 2007 with VIP queue-jumping status.  Do you want to know what the world record is?  Eating 36 Madagascar hissing cockroaches in one minute.  36!  Can you imagine?  It almost makes me gag.  I wouldn’t try it.  Supposedly the roaches are as safe to eat as shrimp or lobster, because they were raised in a sterile environment.  And supposedly they have high nutritional value.  (I think I’d rather just take a vitamin…)

Guess who’s complaining about this…  (This one isn’t hard.)  It’s PETA.  Yes, they care about roaches, and they think people shouldn’t eat them.  I wonder if there’s a group that thinks we shouldn’t eat plants…  I mean, they’re living creatures, too.  It would be a stupid stance, but it wouldn’t surprise me if some special interest group makes such a claim…  (Though I wonder what they’d eat…  Only animals?  Or just processed food?)