Sarah Palin is defending her polarizing photo of her son, Trig, standing on their family dog. The photo got a lot of backlash, especially from PETA.

The former vice presidential candidate told the organization to “chill” and brought up what one of her fans pointed out when she first posted it; Ellen DeGeneres posted a similar photo just months ago.

In response to the “animal cruelty” claims, Palin accuses PETA of being hypocritical and not supporting causes that help animals.

She started off her Facebook post by writing, “Chill. At least Trig didn’t eat the dog.”

Palin then scolded them for opposing Alaska’s Iditarod, commercial fishing.

She accused them of sitting in their “comfy leather office chairs, wrapped in your fashionable leather belts above your kickin’ new leather pumps you bought because your celebrity idols (who sport fur and crocodile purses) grinned in a tabloid wearing the exact same Louboutins exiting sleek cowhide covered limo seats on their way to some liberal fundraiser shindig at some sushi bar that features poor dead smelly roe.”

Palin also involved President Obama, asking “Did you go as crazy when your heroic Man-of-Your-Lifetime, Barack Obama, revealed he actually enjoyed eating dead dog meat?"

image via Facebook from Sarah Palin

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