Posted on 08/18/2009 5:01:05 AM PDT by Zakeet
Since it will be a few months before Michael Vick takes the field, PETA has decided to target someone else in preparation - fat people.
A new ad campaign, which recently launched in Jacksonville, takes aim at overweight people in about as direct a way as you can. A huge billboard in the city reads, "Save the Whales. Lose The Blubber. Go Vegetarian." Next to the words is a pretty large woman, who looks to be about a biscuit away from becoming a whale dressed in a polka-dot bikini.
Now, that's a low blow.
"Our goal is help overweight Jacksonville residents - the best way to do that is to go vegetarian. We're not trying to insult anyone," Ashley Byrne, a senior campaigner for PETA told Huffington Post. "Vegetarians look and feel better than meat eaters. This is a life-saving message."
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That's been my experience with many vegetarians. They'll eat a whole bag of Doritos, but think that because they're not eating meat, they're coming out ahead.
Instead of a program where we sell "Carbon credits", how about a program where people can sell "Carb credits"? For every 3,500 calories that you don't consume, you can sell those calories to some fat person who wants to eat more.
I know this one who buys pepperoni pizza and calls herself a vegetarian because she picks the pepperonis off. Excuse me, is she planning on gluing the pieces back together to make a pig? Throwing the poor pig in the garbage is waaay worse than eating it.
AMEN. Carbs turn to sugar, sugar turns to sugar, every thing on the shelf has sugar, every drink but water has sugar, we are bombarded with sugar. Ever tried to find sugar free or minimal sugered items? High fructose corn syrup is the main ingrediant for every item at the grocery store, slight exaggeration, but not far from reality.
Same here. I have several friends who are hard core vegetarians. None of them have good color and appear gaunt and pale. They also lack energy (we do a lot of hiking together). They tend to have to eat constantly to keep their energy level up. They also tend to get sick way more often.
A perfect example of attention-seeking behavior.
Nearly all vegetarians fall into this category.
You guessed it. Low self esteme but out for any and all attention she can garner.
>It’s carbs that make you fat, not meat.
+1000, for a lot of us. Maybe there are some out there who can load up on carbs but that’s not me or my family.
The only way I can keep the weight off is low-carb. Plus we have a strong family history of diabetes and reactive hypoglycemia, which excess carbs makes a lot worse.
LQ
Our goal is help overweight Jacksonville residents - the best way to do that is to go vegetarian. We're not trying to insult anyone
Shove it.
“They tend to have to eat constantly to keep their energy level up.”
Herbivores gotta graze, it’s their job description.
Life’s tough further down the food chain.
and the silence from the feminists is deafening.
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