I know that PETA is an organization filled with nutbags. I know that a lot of the things they do are purely for publicity, like their Veggie Love Super Bowl ad. Unfortunately, other campaigns — such as renaming fish “sea kittens”, trying to get ice cream made with human milk instead of cow milk and trying to open a “lobster empathy center” — I’m pretty sure are not jokes. It’s part of why most Americans can’t take them seriously. They rail against animals being put to sleep, although they put animals to sleep on a fairly regular basis. They come up with these utterly ridiculous campaigns. They use idiotic, vapid celebrities to try to get people to come on their side. And then they try to use shock ads to get publicity.

They’re just a huge bunch of kooks, aren’t they? And Ingrid Newkirk, PETA’s president, is the biggest wackjob of them all.

This new idea of theirs I really cannot tell if it is a joke or not. I think it is… but this is PETA. You can never really know.

In its latest campaign aimed at creating maximum publicity, the group suggested that the flavour of the Ocean’s Eleven star’s perspiration – extracted from the actor’s gym towel – would appeal to his fans.

Ingrid Newkirk, president of Peta, sent a letter to Clooney urging him to participate in the extraordinary venture “to spare animals from being killed for the table”.

According to the Washington Post, the actor’s gym towel had been offered for auction by a Peta supporter.

“I thought, ‘What would make tofu more attractive to people?’… I can see people having parties to try CloFu,'” Mrs Newkirk told the newspaper.

She justified her plan by comparing Clooney-flavoured tofu to “making artificial chicken flavour for instant gravy”.

George Clooney flavored tofu? And it’s like artificial chicken flavoring? Oh, God, that is sickening.

Thankfully, Clooney turned them down. But what if he had said yes?? This is where the whole PETA insanity thing is. It’s easy to brush this off as just some crazy idea they came up with to get people talking. But if Clooney had said yes, would PETA have gone forward with the plan to make what they called “CloFu”? I actually think they might.

And even scarier, rabid George Clooney fans would probably buy it.