Are you OVERweight? PETA has a message for you.

[TheDisneyGirl02]

I think that the ad is just disgusting. PETA went WAYYYYY too far with this ad. They could get their point across without insulting a group of Americans.

 

[torinsmom]

I taught for nine years at a school that had about 40% Hindus. They were all vegetarian and at least 50% were overweight(about the same as non-vegetarians). Eating meat does not make you fat. It is actually the starches, like white flour and sugar that really make people gain weight, as well as lack of exercise.

Oh, off topic, but funny--I had a little 4 year old in my class once who was a vegetarian. Mom was a vegetarian as well, but dad was not. She told me one day--"My mom is a vegetarian, but my dad is a MEAT!"

Marsha

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

"My mom is a vegetarian, but my dad is a MEAT!"

 

[3boymthr]

People
Eat
Tasty
Animals

This is my DB favorite saying whenever PETA and vegetarianism comes up.

 

[Jestocost]

Even if you're not overweight, you're a problem according to PETA:

According to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, human beings are just another animal species, no more special or important than a snail darter or dairy cow. The group believes, as one commentator put it, that “animal trainers, hunters, fishermen, cattlemen, grocers, and indeed all non-vegetarians are the moral equivalent of cannibals, slave-owners, and death-camp guards.” Newkirk insists that the world would be a better place without people: “Humans have grown like a cancer. We’re the biggest blight on the face of the earth.”

That's a quote from the profile of PETA on ActivistCash, a site that chronicles the exploits, motiviations, financing and other aspects of a wide range of radical groups. The site is funded by corporations in the food industry, so take that into consideration as well, but I find them to be more factual than the radicals and the information presented is pretty frightening.

 

[diznygirl]

My steak dinner tonight will be dedicated to PETA.

 

[Scurvy]

Newkirk insists that the world would be a better place without people: “Humans have grown like a cancer. We’re the biggest blight on the face of the earth.”

There are a good number of PETA members, aren't there? If they really care so much about the earth, maybe they ought to lead the way in improving the planet. They probably should be looking for a way to exit it. Maybe they could catch a ride on a passing spaceship, or build their own, or something.

 

[dotty dot]

mme I could eat a veggie whole - and then follow him with a nice choc bar and a dounut !! yum

 

[4Robins]

The BEST THING about PETA is.........they are completely irrelevant. Wish i could have been in their board room when Michael Vick signed with the Eagles.

 

[yoopermom]

Oh, excuse me, I was just chewing on my supper: cube steak (a "happy cow" who was happily out eating in our pasture last summer, never had an antibiotic in his life), onions and potatoes pulled fresh from our garden this a.m., and, oh, the corn on the cob is boiling, to be eaten with butter made by our friendly neighbor from his dairy cow.

DH47 who eats mostly venison (lean), our own beef, and vegs grown here, has very low cholesterol, and all the rest of his "numbers" are great. The doc says, "sure you could lose 50 lbs, but you're eating healthy, that's what matters".

And you're going to tell me the typical PETA vegetarian is enjoying his dinner more than me? I don't think so!

Terri

 

[LisaR]

Even if the message is valid, the delivery stinks. I think that's one of the big problems with PETA...the message gets lost in the delivery. They want the shock value to make an impression, but the impression they end up making just drives people away.

Let me join the many on this thread that agree with you 100%. Nicely worded.

So vegetarians are 10-20 pounds lighter? Only if your intake is less than you physical output. It is very easy to gain weight on a vegetarian diet. And have you tasted those veggie hot dogs? Nasty. I'd rather do without. Same for veggie burgers. I'd rather eat small amounts of what i love than eat chemically enhanced fake food.

Sorry to go off topic but you must not realize that there are many types of vegetarians.

I am vegan. I wouldn't be caught dead eating a fake hot dog anymore than I would be caught dead eating a real hot dog. I also wouldn't consume a pre-packaged veggie burger unless I was desperate. I eat strictly starches, plants and fruits and I take in WAY MORE calories than I put out. I keep the weight off by not taking in any oil, butter, cooking spray, etc and keeping the junk food (and I include fake meat in there) out.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Their ads are a bit misleading an a bit flawed.

There are plenty of ways to pack on the pounds without killing an animal.

I've known several obese and overweight vegetarians.

However--most vegans I have come across are not obese.

 

[Planogirl]

I also know plenty of slim meat eaters.

PETA is rather pathetic. I support some animal rights groups but not PETA. They are so over the top that they do more damage than good IMO.

 

[merryweather20]

I also know plenty of slim meat eaters.

PETA is rather pathetic. I support some animal rights groups but not PETA. They are so over the top that they do more damage than good IMO.

They are just flat out liars and hypocrites as well, they kill plenty of animals just because its convenient to do so:

“Did we euthanize some animals who could have been adopted? Maybe.”
— PETA's Domestic Animal Issues & Abuse Department director Daphna Nachminovitch, in The Virginian-Pilot

 

[etoiles]

:And have you tasted those veggie hot dogs? Nasty. I'd rather do without. Same for veggie burgers. I'd rather eat small amounts of what i love than eat chemically enhanced fake food.

As a vegetarian myself I do not eat these types of foods regularly. I do not feel the need to constantly replace former meat items with fake items. Most vegetarians I know feel the same way. The same argument could be made for chemically enhanced foods that contain meat/animal products.

I wish that a vegetarian diet would make me thin though but alas it does not. Then again, neither did eating meat. Too bad the PETA people are bashing vegetarians themselves if they are not skinny.

 

[minkydog]

Sorry to go off topic but you must not realize that there are many types of vegetarians.

I am vegan. I wouldn't be caught dead eating a fake hot dog anymore than I would be caught dead eating a real hot dog. I also wouldn't consume a pre-packaged veggie burger unless I was desperate. I eat strictly starches, plants and fruits and I take in WAY MORE calories than I put out. I keep the weight off by not taking in any oil, butter, cooking spray, etc and keeping the junk food (and I include fake meat in there) out.

As a vegetarian myself I do not eat these types of foods regularly. I do not feel the need to constantly replace former meat items with fake items. Most vegetarians I know feel the same way. The same argument could be made for chemically enhanced foods that contain meat/animal products.

Well, of course I know there are different kinds of vegetarians. Two of my friends are vegans and they *do* eat veggie burgers, fake turkey, hot dogs, and sausage, and textured vegetable protein. I don't particularly like any of those things. That was my point--I would rather just eat something else.

My DD16 actually turned us toward being vegetarian. We have cut our meat intake dramatically and now only eat meat a couple times a week. I very rarely cook packaged foods; my family prefers fresh veggies, peanut butter, whole grain breads & pasta, homemade soups. I hardly ever have junk food in the house--if the kids want that, they have to jump in the car and drive to the 7-11.

 

[NotJustAMommy]

I hate PETA. They're extremists in the worst sense. Have you ever read their propoganda? They feel like animals lives are equal to humans, and in some cases of more value.


Two links below from their own newsletters full of their hatred. One famously says he'd save a drowning dog before a "retarted infant" And they liken the holocaust to chicken farming

 

[SwedishMeatball]

PETA is a PITA.

 

[Missy1961]

PETA is a PITA.

Very good!

 

[LaraK]

My son has severe food allergies which mean that we have to shop like vegans (he's allergic to almost all meats...he can only eat pork and fish...and he is allergic to eggs, milk, peanuts and tree nuts) Getting protein into a five year old without being able to use dairy, meat or nuts is so hard he's on supplimental ammino acid formula that keeps him from having to be fed through a tube in his stomach. It is unbelievable to me that anyone would choose this lifestyle voluntarily. He's already dropping weight rapidly since loosing his food.