PETA 's 'Death Panel' on 'Whales':

And just let me add: 1 in 10 women - of puberty age and beyond - suffering from disorders like PCOS. Just like me. And PCOS makes weight loss almost impossible. But that doesn't mean we PCOSers don't eat healthy!

Anyone who spends any time with me knows I am not a candy or carboholic. I am not swimming in ice cream, bread and diet soda either. I eat a lot of vegetables - some of them I grow myself, buy my meat either Kosher or from my local CSA, and enjoy beans, grains and seeds as well as plenty of fresh fruit and flavored seltzer.

PETA can go ***** themselves. Oh wait, they just did.

PETA: Making women feel bad about themselves
by Monica Jean Alaniz

The following appeared on PETA’s blog “The PETA Files.” It refers to a new ad campaign put out by the non-profit organization:

Lose the Blubber: Go Vegetarian.

For most of us, summer is fading fast, but for residents of Jacksonville, Florida, bikini season lasts all year. What does the Sunshine State’s endless summer mean for PETA? Our phone lines ring off the hook with reports of “beached whale sightings.” Good one, guys.

Luckily, we know the secret to getting—and maintaining—a killer beach bod. Did you know that vegetarians are 20 to 30 percent leaner than meat-eaters? So, to help residents and tourists “lose the blubber”—and hopefully to deter prank callers—we’re launching a brand-new billboard urging people to go vegetarian:

I believe that PETA is taking the completely wrong angle here on several fronts.

I have a friend who happens to be vegetarian and, while she is not obese, she is still overweight. When she first explains to people that she is a vegetarian she automatically assumes that she has to justify this by saying, “Yes, and I know I’m not skinny.”

Perhaps it’s only okay to be a vegetarian if you are skinny. After all, PETA’s other ad campaigns, such as their c” never depict normal sized individuals, only airbrushed models of the pop culture variety.

Women and young girls are already bombarded by images in this culture that tell them they are not good enough whether because of their weight, height, clothes, hair, eyelashes, you name it. Do we really need one more message like this from a non-profit organization that is against cruelty? What about cruelty towards your fellow human beings?

You’ll notice that the ad does not target men and that it is the cartoon image of an overweight woman that is being used. Men are rarely targeted by ads that promote weight loss.

The results of a study published in May 2008 conducted by the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine showed that…

…65% of women between the ages of 25 and 45 years have disordered eating behaviors. In addition, another 10% of the women report symptoms that are associated with eating disorders such as bulimia nervosa, anorexia, and binge eating disorder. Thus, in all, 75 % of women – that’s three out of every four women in the United States between the ages of 25 and 45 years – have an eating disorder or have symptoms related to an eating disorder.

I am sure that the numbers would go much higher if we were to include women outside of the aforementioned age group.

What this new ad campaign by PETA seems to be saying is: You’re fat. Stop eating meat and you won’t be. There is no mention about healthy vegetarian eating habits.

Women could actually do themselves great harm by completely cutting meat out of their diets without first consulting a physician or nutritionist, but of course there is no mention of that.

They are just playing into the fears that are being perpetuated by the media. They are playing into women’s fears of not being good enough and, in doing so, causing more harm than good.

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