Michael Moore -- whose movie Sicko is set for release this month -- isn't known for backing away from an issue, and either is animal rights group PETA. So when Ingrid Newkirk, president of the organization, wrote Michael Moore a letter, he had to know that he may not like what she had to say. Newkirk took Moore to task on his "weighty health issue" and challenged him to take up a vegetarian lifestyle so that he could "become less reliant on the government's shoddy healthcare system," himself. Newkirk urged the filmmaker to take up the 30-day Veg Pledge and take some personal responsibility in creating his own healthy lifestyle by eliminating animal products from his diet.

Will Moore take her up on it? He hasn't said, but he is working on losing a few pounds. What do you think? Was Newkirk's letter over the top or an appropriately worded wake up call?