Did they learn nothing from Jacksonville? Apparently not.
PETA is pretty proud of its most recent terrible idea: Bashing fat Americans on the Great Wall of China.
This morning, PETA sent a letter to Cai Wu, China’s minister of culture, offering to place an ad on the Great Wall that could help save the iconic structure, which has been crumbling partially because of the continuous stampede of tourists–including countless overweight Americans–at the site. The ad shows a huge American tourist, who’s visible from outer space, next to the words “It’s the Wall That We Should See From Space, Not You. Go Vegan.” In the letter, PETA points out that vegans are significantly trimmer than meat-eaters are and that a plant-based diet is animal-friendly.
Hahaha! Fat people! Let’s all point and laugh.
You know, founder Ingrid Newkirk really did her group a disservice when she insisted last year: “I wish more than anything you can ever imagine that we could not be controversial, and we could not be provocative.” Because I was waiting for them to do something that goes beyond controversial and provocative. And this is just mean.
Allow me to remind PETA (yet again) that pasta, PB&J sandwiches, bagels, guacamole, potato chips, French fries, and Oreos are all vegan. PETA even helpfully prints a list of vegan junk food on its kids site, which includes Fritos, Sour Patch Kids, Cracker Jack, microwave popcorn, Swedish Fish, bean dip, and Twizzlers. I challenge anyone to lose weight on that diet. If it worked like that, the Fat Vegan website (“helping vegans lose weight and become healthier”) wouldn’t exist.
Going veg isn’t the secret to losing weight. And routine fat shaming sure as hell isn’t either.
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Looking at the two models makes me hungry for a lettuce bikini.
With Thousand Island dressing, cheese, and bacon bits.
@Dave
That does sound good. It’s also the only way I’ll salad. Cobb salads specifically are my favorite. Hard-boiled egg, chicken, bacon, cheese, and Thousand Island dressing. Not exactly healthy, but delicious.
And really? I mean do they think there’s no fat vegetarians out there? They come in all shapes and sizes just like us omnivores.
is the one on the left eating a hot dog?
Probably some kind of hot dog wannabe. Veggiedog or whatever they call them. Kinda like veggie burgers (which while I’ll admit aren’t awful, I prefer the real deal).
I got her hot dog right here!
**grabs Vienna beef hot dog from Jean & Jude’s.**
I keep reading “GO VEG!” as something completely different…and thinking that is a very strange, um, cheer.
Plants are what food eats.
And maybe this is just picking nits, but PETA does know that you can’t really see the Great Wall from space, right? http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/earth/can-you-see-the-great-wall-of-china-from-space/
They want to do that in a country where the population eats all parts of an animal and enjoys it? Not the sharpest tools in the shed then.
I still have no idea why some people assume not eating meat makes you thin. The few friends I had that decided to go vegetarian gained anywhere between 15-30 pounds the first year.
Also, Pasta, you eat Gene and Jude’s?! I LOVE GENE & JUDE’S!
@BigMamma – Not to mention that Chinese astronauts eat dog in space!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7718570/Dog-on-the-menu-for-Chinese-astronauts.html
Vegan and vegetarian are not the same thing. Most of the foods you listed are made with some form of animal products, such as the gelatin in gummy candies that comes from horse hooves and cow hides. A vegetarian lifestyle — not eating meat per se — is fairly easy to maintain (although I’m not sure how much healthier), but eating only vegan is an exercise in self-induced misery.
Most people have no clue how many of the things they eat, wear, and use every day contain animal byproducts. It is possible to make truly vegan French fries, bagels, etc., but the ones you buy in restaurants almost never are. Kinda makes you wonder — if so many foods and other products contain some animal-derived ingredients, maybe is that just how humans are supposed to live?
I wouldn’t have thought to include bagels and gummy candy either, Claudia, but PETA gave me the idea by listing them as vegan-friendly on their very own website:
http://www.petakids.com/candy.asp
PETA also says the fries at chains like Wendy’s, Carl’s Jr., and Denny’s (among others) are vegan:
http://www.vegcooking.com/ChainRestaurants.asp
I had no idea that a vegetarian diet could make you look like you just got silicone in your breasts, liposuction, and a crappy spray on tan. Who knew?
I experimented with vegetarianism for a three month period some years ago – I was young and stupid, what can I say?
Since then, I’ve gone to the other extreme, adhering to the “paleo” diet (lots of meat with fresh fruit & veggies, nuts, and eggs, but no grains, refined sugars, or starches) for the last four years. You know what? I found the paleo diet easier to stick to (because I wasn’t hungry all the time), I lost weight, my diabetes, hypertension, and cholesterol were all controlled to my doctor’s satisfaction (no meds, yay!), and other long-term health issues cleared right up. As such, anyone who tells me to “go veg” for my health gets told to “pound salt” – my body has told me what works, and what works is eating chunks of tasty animals on a regular basis.
Thanks, Holly. I figured it wasn’t your mistake… and I am pretty sure vegans are deluding themselves if they think anything at Carl’s Jr. is a solid dietary choice.
Actually, a lot of gummy candies are made with fruit pectin, not gelatin.
I have Kitty. But obviously never caught the right way to spell it. Who’s paying attention at 2 in the morning?
I love lettuce. Especially on a nice juicy hamburger!