PETA – Save the Whales, Lose the Blubber

by Albert Milliron | August 18, 2009 at 02:48 pm

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Do over weight people have to be attacked from all angles? The usually half naked protesters for vegetarianism decide to beat up on the Obese folks in our society who struggle each day trying to lose weight. Others are happy with their shape and have no desire to look like a skeleton. These are the same folks that spend time in Rehab facilities because, Drug and Alcohol use is a disease. So they come out with a “PETA’s list of the top vegetarian-friendly rehab centers.” Anyone look at a vegetarian lately? Get some color when your at the beach, eat some meat!

Their press release says,

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. The ad shows a woman whose “blubber” is spilling over the sides of her swimsuit bottom and features the tagline “Save the Whales. Lose the Blubber: Go Vegetarian. PETA.”

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. The meat habit can ruin the fun in other ways too. Consuming meat and dairy products is conclusively linked to heart disease, diabetes, and several kinds of cancer — not to mention higher rates of infertility in women and impotence in men. And not only is following a healthy plant-based diet good for the environment, it is also the best thing that anyone can do to help stop the routine abuse of animals raised and killed for food. Animals on factory farms are subjected to mutilations like debeaking, tail-docking, and branding (without any painkillers) and are often slaughtered and dismembered while still conscious.

“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.”

Maybe a nice note to PETA.org.

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Pissed off fatty (not verified)

at 17:10 on August 18th, 2009

I tried to email them and I got an automated response reminding me of what they said. Im offended, and insulted.

Erica Costa (not verified)

at 17:46 on August 18th, 2009

OMG, how rude! I am not overweight by any means either, but this is going to far!

158

at 20:58 on August 18th, 2009

Interesting

Pam63 (not verified)

at 08:45 on August 19th, 2009

get a clue about the horrors of farm factories you self centered, whiners

Wil24 (not verified)

at 14:55 on August 19th, 2009

quit choking down iron pills and peta propaganda.

Richard Reed (not verified)

at 22:58 on August 26th, 2009

We have a clue, we just don't care. I personally like the taste of charred meat, poultry, and fish.You need to get a clue, insulting people is not the way to get the message out.

common sense (not verified)

at 10:26 on August 19th, 2009

Definitely not a fan of PETA, but this ultra sensative complaining is rediculous. Obesity is a problem, not something we should accept and start thinking fondly of. Yes, some people have heavy genes. 'SOME'. Too many people are simply UNHEALTHY and any influence to motivate them the better. I'm not saying to become a skeleton, just saying the obvious, improve your health, or you'll die sooner. Not hard to understand. Change your habbits, change your environment, quit complaining about facing relaity. With that, I still disagree with PETA at leasat 80% of the time. mmmmm want me some tasety ribs! WITH VEGGIES!

Patrice (not verified)

at 12:03 on August 19th, 2009

I sent an e-mail as well, and received their 'automated response.' They are obviously not reading the e-mails. Perhaps if I post a short response here they'll actually take the time to look at it:

Your automated response states, “By encouraging people who want to lose weight to go vegetarian instead of resorting to unhealthy diets, we hope to offer them a choice that the multimillion-dollar diet industry won't give them: a long-term strategy for maintaining a healthy weight.”

As both a heavy person AND a literate person I do not find your billboard to have any positive educational value. I know nothing more about vegetarian diets or their health benefits that I did before seeing the billboard. Your billboard does not offer me, as a heavy person, any alternatives to those promoted by the weight loss industry. It does not offer a long term strategy for maintaining a healthy weight. What it DOES offer is the perpetuation of negative stereotypes of heavy women- that we are all fat and unattractive, worthy of nothing more than scorn. Translation: your ad campaign is not only rude and offensive but highly ineffective, making it nothing more than a horrendous waste of your donors’ money.

monica temple (not verified)

at 13:36 on August 19th, 2009

Please PETA-- you speak on behalf of animals who need your help with a voice no one else has. But whoever came up with this ad has a mean spiritedness that does no one any good. Thousands of ways you could have gotten through to people and helped the animals-- instead you wasted money; how many more animals will go without help and mercy because you took the low road once again? When will you learn-- you don't prevent cruelty with cruelty.

jmc610 (not verified)

at 14:23 on August 19th, 2009

It's all about advertising and they did it again...they don't care how.

There main objective was to get people to notice & remember the ad.

If you make headlines and get people stirred up in the process, even better...

MISTER TG (not verified)

at 19:38 on August 19th, 2009

P-lease
E-AT
T-he
A-nimals

Albert Milliron

at 11:27 on August 20th, 2009

Thanks for all the comments on this story

jethrodfrog (not verified)

at 11:35 on August 25th, 2009

I see nothing wrong with the message that PETA has put out there. The only people I think that are getting offended honestly are possibly...dare I say it...fat meat eaters?

Violin (not verified)

at 20:33 on August 30th, 2009

I'm a FAT vegetarian. Quite often, when people hear me say that I'm vegetarian, they immediately look me up and down, then reply, "You've gotta be kiddin'". So PETA loses on this one. Where did their original purpose go?

trout4katie (not verified)

at 13:45 on September 2nd, 2009

to the author- i have no clue how you got a writing job. just so you know, you lose credibility as a writer when you can't spell correctly, properly capitalize words, or create coherent sentences. that being said, i am not a supporter of peta in any way.. but obesity is an epidemic, not a disease. people have control (to a large extent) over their own health and obesity should never be accepted by society as being ok. i'm not saying peta is right in their campaign, since it's very, very easy to be an obese vegetarian, i'm just saying it in response to the author and the commenters who suggest otherwise.