PETA's new billboard campaign in Florida is raising eyebrows and ire among women and health groups. A drawing on billboards in Jacksonville depicts an obese woman with the phrase, "Save The Whales, Lose The Blubber: Go Vegetarian."
In a press release, PETA stated:
A new PETA billboard campaign that was just launched in Jacksonville reminds people who are struggling to lose weight -- and who want to have enough energy to chase a beach ball -- that going vegetarian can be an effective way to shed those extra pounds that keep them from looking good in a bikini. [....]
Anyone wishing to achieve a hot "beach bod" is reminded that studies show that vegetarians are, on average, about 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters. [...]
"Trying to hide your thunder thighs and balloon belly is no day at the beach," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "PETA has a free 'Vegetarian Starter Kit' for people who want to lose pounds while eating as much as they like.
Jessica at Feministing blasts the billboard as "fat-shaming" and that "PETA owes the residents of Jacksonville a serious apology."
Holly at Deceiver states, "This is exactly what you would expect [from PETA] -- no empathy for humans whatsoever, just a lot of B.S. about how vegetarianism will make fat people just a little bit less of a blight on humanity."
PETA is known for its attention-grabbing tactics involving scantily clad-women, like this veggie dog eat-in on Capitol Hill that involved playboy playmates wearing only lettuce bikinis.
Of course to the shallow, elitist, white liberal crowd, anything over 120lbs. on a woman is considered "fat"--just look at the stick figures who get the major fashion magazine covers. Regardless PETA once again shows itself to be a disgrace pulling a stunt like this.
The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he's bedeviled by a fly in the White House.
PETA is sending President Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows users to trap a house fly and then release it outside.
"We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals," PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said Wednesday. "We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals."
During an interview for CNBC at the White House on Tuesday, a fly intruded on Obama's conversation with correspondent John Harwood.
"Get out of here," the president told the pesky insect. When it didn't, he waited for the fly to settle, put his hand up and then smacked it dead.
"Now, where were we?" Obama asked Harwood. Then he added: "That was pretty impressive, wasn't it? I got the sucker."
Friedrich said that PETA was pleased with Obama's voting record in the Senate on behalf of animal rights and noted that he has been outspoken against animal abuses.
Still, "swatting a fly on TV indicates he's not perfect," Friedrich said, "and we're happy to say that we wish he hadn't."
Deputy press secretary Josh Earnest said the White House has no comment on the matter.
I'm with Barry on this one, even surmise to say that I'm impressed with his Mr. Miyagi skills. And if PETA taking issue with this doesn't confirm that they're an imbecilic organization that shouldn't ever be taken seriously about anything, nothing will.
Turns out that when they aren't throwing paint on the rich fur coats celebrities often wear, PETA is busy killing the very same animals they claim to love so much.
WINTON, N.C. -- Lawyers for two PETA workers from Virginia charged with animal cruelty told a North Carolina jury that all the pair did wrong was to dispose of animal carcasses improperly. The trial continues Thursday.
Adria Hinkle of Norfolk and Andrew Cook of Virginia Beach are being tried together on 21 counts of felony animal cruelty, seven counts of littering and three counts of obtaining property by false pretenses. District Attorney Valerie Asbell says the defendants acted with malice and falsely represented their motives when picking up a cat and her kittens at an animal hospital and later euthanized them in their van instead of taking them to Virginia to be put up for adoption. Defense attorneys each said the only thing their clients did wrong was to illegally dump the animals in a shopping center's garbage bin. One of Hinkle's attorneys said the pair had paperwork from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in Norfolk that indicated they would pick up animals from the animal hospital and a shelter and that all would be euthanized.
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