PETA Asks Us To ‘Save the Whales,’ But This Time They Mean Fat People

By Kelly Turner on September 9th, 2009

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PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is at it again, and this time instead of attacking the fashion industry for fur or fast food chains for animal cruelty, they are attacking an entire city, and people aren’t happy about it

PETA is controversial, and they love it.  They’ve been known to line the streets with real people laying in coffins to protest Armani or sit in tanks of fake blood to protest McDonald’s treatment of chickens. This time they are both advocating vegetarianism while offending the overweight, and their loved ones, by calling them names on the grandest scale.

PETA put up a billboard in Jacksonville, FL, stating “Save the Whales.  Lose the Blubber: Go Vegetarian,” with a cartoon of an overweight women in a bikini at the beach.

In response to the ad, senior PETA campaigner Ashley Byrne said, “Our goal is help overweight Jacksonville residents–the best way to do that is to go vegetarian. We’re not trying to insult anyone. This is a life-saving message.”

Apparently PETA has not ever seen an episode of Dr Phil, or else they would know that mockery and lowering some one’s self esteem is no way to motivate a person to change.

I can’t even begin to imagine the conversation parents have to have with their children when they ask what the billboard means.  Try summing up PETA’s methods, hypocrisy, weight-ism, prejudice and hatred all on the car trip home from school.

I have met many overweight vegetarians in my life and many healthy weighted meat eaters.  While one’s diet unquestionably effects their health and weight, it has nothing to do with whether they are eating meat or not.

If PETA wants to advocate vegetarianism, that’s fine.  If they want to say that eating vegetarian is lifestyle that will help you drop the pounds, even though I don’t agree with that statement in the slightest, I’ll let it go because more fruits and veggies are never a bad thing. But, to publicly humiliate and degrade a town and its citizens by singling out the overweight, more specifically overweight women, is inexcusable.

I don’t think PETA understands that when they take such action it hurts their cause. If you believe in something, your goal should be to unite, not divide. To insult the very people you claim to be trying to help is ludicrous and leads me to believe their intention is more to show the superiority of vegetarians over those who consume a “less strict” diet.

Your concern for an over weight person’s health is obviously insincere, and pushing your vegetarian agenda through insults is harming more than it’s helping.  However off putting your tactics may be, your intentions when it comes to animal rights might be sincere too. But leave people alone- you obviously don’t know how to relate to them. You preach of animal’s feelings, but do everything you can to aid in the suffering of your own kind.

Get back in your coffins, PETA, and stick to what you know: throwing flour at Lindsay Lohan.