PETA's director of "vegan outreach", Bruce Friedrich, has been quoted complaining about meat being served at the 2004 World Social Forum: "It's like letting the World Bank or the Ku Klux Klan open up a booth here." According to Consumer Freedom, Friedrich believes sport hunters should be viewed "with the same revulsion we presently reserve for Nazi doctors and slave traders".

He once wrote that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh "should not be allowed to take even one more life", urging the terrorist's warden to serve the condemned prisoner meatless meals. When McVeigh opted for a vegetarian last meal, Friedrich proclaimed that the decision to abstain from meat "groups him with some of the world's greatest visionaries, including Albert Schweitzer, Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy and Albert Einstein".