Man Tries To Save the Environment by Being Eaten By a Snake

That's quite the Thanksgiving feast.

rosolieIf you’ve seen any commercials on the Discovery Channel lately, you’ve seen the one where a group of people carry a ginormous snake while a man in a Hazmat-looking suit talks about how he’s going to let that snake eat him.

That snake is an anaconda and the man is environmentalist Paul Rosolie. He told Entertainment Weekly (sub req’d) that he’s doing the stunt to raise awareness about environmental degradation.

“People care about animals; they don’t make the jump to caring about the habitat the animals live in… So I wanted to do something that would force a dialogue about what’s going on here – and it’s working,” he told the magazine.

The man has got a point.

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