I caught up on my magazine reading at the beach on Sunday and noticed a fresh crop of those “Got Milk?” ads featuring celebrities with milky upper lips. While envying how Danica Patrick is wearing the crap out of a leather catsuit, I got to wondering: How many “Got Milk?” celebs have also shilled for the veganism-pushers at PETA?
As it turns out: plenty.
A couple hours of research (you’re welcome!) turned up the following walking contradictions:
- Martha Stewart: won’t wear fur but will wear a milk mustache.
- Christie Brinkley: refuses to take her kids to the circus but makes sure they drink at least a glass of 2% per day, stressing the importance of protein, calcium, and Vitamin D.
- Carrie Underwood: PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian 2007, preceded by Got Milk 2006.
- Dennis Rodman: happily got naked at New York Fashion Week, also happily got naked for the milk people. (I sense a theme here.)
- Miley Cyrus: won PETA’s Compassionate Citizen Award this year for rescuing some chickens; oppressed some cows last year by promoting dairy consumption among teens.
- Kelly Clarkson: laps up the praise for cancelling a rodeo gig, then laps up some milk (not to mention some generous photo retouching).
- Kimora Lee Simmons: wore wings for PETA and short shorts for Got Milk.
- The Dixie Chicks: posed naked in an anti-fur ad before cowboys took them away.
- Kim Cattrall: in character for PETA and good god I hope that’s milk.
Hey guys — you’re working for the dairy industry. Sworn enemy of PETA. Maybe it’s time to pick a side here.
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It is not about picking sides, it’s about picking up some pocket change. Besides, I highly doubt these “celebs” actually think enough about an issue to honestly say they picked a side.
I read somewhere that dairy farmers are forced to pay into this Got Milk campaign even though many don’t agree with it. Some don’t like being made to pay for a generic campaign while others do not like the marketing. Others resent both.
And I agree with LN. The celebs involved care only about the money. If they had any brains they would realize the hypocrisy of shilling for both PETA and the dairy industry
It amazes me that these people can even read a script.
I appreciate all the research, but there were a couple of celebs that sounded like they were simply awarded or mentioned by PETA, they never actually associate themselves with the group willingly. If PETA decides to mention me in a newsletter because I saved a kitten from a tree, does that mean that I’m a hypocrite next time I eat a sweet, delicious steak? (and if I am, meh, it’s totally work it….mmmm, steak…)
They’re not exactly turning down the honor, The Irish, but point taken. I’d say in those cases, that’s PETA’s fault for rewarding behavior they claim is bad. Carrie Underwood and Miley Cyrus both won their awards after they sat for their Got Milk? photoshoots.
Agreed. If the celebs aren’t hypocritical, PeTA sure is giving them stuff. Dennis Rodman is just a whole different story. That man will get naked for anyone it seems… as long as money is involved.
I’ve seen japanese pornography that provides enough reasonable doubt that what’s in Kim’s wine glass (and on her lip) is indeed milk.
As someone pointed out on another thread, “celebrity” pretty much equals “whore”*. As time goes by, I’m becoming more and more convinced that hypocrisy is pretty much par for the course for these people.
*–There may be exceptions. MAY be.
Rocko – could have gone the rest of the day without knowing that piece of information.
So in conclusion, PETA is still full of hypocritical asses and I get to keep eating steak. Yay!
OK, I am NOT taking PETA’s side on anything, but you have to remember that there is a difference between vegetarians and vegans. Vegetarians (by my understanding) don’t eat meat, but will use animal products such as milk, etc. and may even wear (gasp!) leather. It’s the VEGANS who are the most strident and hypocritical bunch and they deserve every insult you can muster.
@BB: That’s good, ’cause we’ve got insults we haven’t even used yet.
Rocko, you’ve read my mind
LOL Beige. Bring ‘em on. I love them!
That is bizarre there is so much crossover.
I view veganism AND vegetarianism much the same way I view La Leche League and natural-childbirth advocates: Zippedy doo dah for you, hooray. But do not, that’s DO NOT with a capital “DO NOT”, bitch and moan and preach at ME about how I ought to eat, give birth, nourish my kids, etc., because your freedom stops precisely where mine begins. I don’t give a crap what anybody truly thinks of me, because you can’t force people to like you. But show respect, and I’ll do the same for you, even if I think your dietary scruples are silly. I’ll keep my opinion to myself as long as the other person does.
In today’s very vocal society, that particular situation doesn’t crop up very often, unfortunately.
Vegans are the worst and I have a story: during a “discussion” I had with a vegan once one of his arguing points was that plastic products could be used as substitute for things like leather in shoes and clothes and such. um…hello? “lets save the animals by contributing to polluting the earth”? really? He really didn’t see a problem with this “as long as we’re drilling oil anyway.” Well, at least we’ll all be equally polluted. What do you do if the anti-petroleum activists have their way? After a few more points to which the responses were equally as dumb, he ended the “discussion” by calling me a selfish animal abuser and that I would find any excuse to keep on abusing them when I could clearly see that humans are the unchecked abusers of the animal kingdom.
I would like to point out that Carrie Underwood canceled an appearance on the spot at a rodeo supposedly because of animal rights. Her people said she was sick, some people at the rodeo said she simply threw a hissy fit and wouldn’t come out. But either way, animal rights people took credit for it and (as far as I ever heard) there was no flat out denial from her/her people that that wasn’t the reason.
Gee, I wonder what Carrie Underwood’s band’s instruments are made out of-wood? What does the fiddler’s bow use-horse hair? What powers her stage show- TVA dams on the Cumberland river? Nuclear power plants? Coal fired power plants? How does she get from show to show-five 18 wheelers?
Sheesh.
Oh, and KDR, I believe that it was Cheyenne Frontier Days that Carrie Underwood backed out of. I guess she isn’t very well informed if she signed up for the gig not knowing that its a famous rodeo.
Remember, their ethics and morals fly right out the window when they see the contract and the dollar signs in it. And I love CArrie Underwood, sniff.
Animals have two purposes. To be delicious… and to “fit” well.
To Rocko and the Deceiver staff. Thank you for putting those horrible images in my head. I will now go pick my eyes out and scrub my brain with bleach.
wait…Milk is an Animal Product?
Amen, Beige. I am sick of people telling ME what I should do just because that’s the way they do it. I don’t preach to you about the virtues of meat, so don’t preach to me either. We were born to eat meat as we are omnivores. I wonder how they will stop the rest of the animal kingdom from killing. Try to turn a lion into a vegetarian sometime & I think you will eventually become dinner. Several vegetarian/vegan friends I know have been lethargic and generally didn’t feel well only to be told by doctors that it was due to the lack of meat. Once they began eating it again, they felt much better, no matter how reluctantly they admitted it.
Beige – I know you don’t care, but I luvs ya anyways.
PETA and Hollywood folks are all cut from the same cloth, i.e., any publicity is good publicity. It’s the essence of fame whoredom.
Rocko, that’s disgusting but I’ll admit I was thinking along those lines when I saw Kim Cattrall’s milk picture.
Beige, I luvs ya too…maybe not quite in the same way Dave does, but still…
I wanna’ play too! Beige, you are well-loved. But not in a Michael Jackson way. More of a Jermaine and Jermajesty way.
On the remote chance Jermaine gets busted for dressing up as a clown for the neighborhood children, I wanted to clarify that my love for Beige is platonic and asexual.
Awwww. Y’all are sweet. And you have no idea how much I needed that today. Death in the family.
Beige – don’t know your brand of worship, but I’m a-gonna fire up the prayer circle in your honor.
Much sorrow for your loss.
Thanks, dude. Much appreciated.
Beige, dear, I’m so sorry for your loss. There’s hardly anything more painful than losing our loved ones and I don’t think there’s much one can say or do, but please accept my condolences, my heart goes out to you and your family. Even though I don’t know you personally, you are one of my favorite people here, ditto what the others said – luv ya, Beige. So very sorry.
Sorry to hear that Beige, I’ll keep’em crossed for you.
Y’all are good people. Thank you.
Wow you people base your entire opinion about vegans on this “one vegan I talked to”?
I love the argument “hey you can do it but don’t force me to do it to.” Hey you can choose not to kill somebody but DO NOT (with a capital DO NOT) tell me what to do. Your freedom ends there, pal.
A compelling case.