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Sep

Pam Anderson Quits Bikinis, Working to Focus on PETA

By Holly Won't
Categories: Activists, Bad Boys & Girls, Foodies, PETA and Television Stars 2 Comments

Because evidently she can’t write, Pamela Anderson dictated an opinion piece to a reporter for the Vancouver Sun about how her career now is less about posing in bikinis and more about saving animals:

I was in a butcher-block ad that said, “All animals have the same parts.” (Montreal) looked at it (as sexist) because I was in a bikini. That was really funny, because I know Montreal is known for its exotic dancing and Canada is known for its progressive attitude. I don’t know what the real issues were.

I wrote to the owner of the restaurant (where PETA launched the ad) to ask him to remove foie gras from the menu and he said, “No, forget it.” They stick tubes down the goose’s neck and they force-feed them. It’s horrible. If people could see what animals go through before it gets to their plate with a flower on it, they wouldn’t eat it. …

I feel that, at this point in my career, I don’t want to do another television show. I don’t want to do a film. I’m really enjoying what I do now. I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I’m building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life. Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things. I’ve always been involved and now I feel like this is where I should be headed, more so than wearing bikinis.

Who knew Pammie still had acting opportunities worth quitting?

But more surprising is that PETA and Pam chose a restaurant that serves foie gras in the first place to host the launch of the anti-meat billboard in question. They couldn’t have found a vegetarian joint in all of Montreal? But maybe I shouldn’t be so shocked, given that she also put pork, tuna, lobster, and cod on the menu at her most recent wedding reception celebrating her short-lived marriage to Rick Salomon in 2007.

And not to grind salt into her wounds, but those “two homes in Malibu”? One is a double-wide in a trailer park that she was forced to move into because she owes $3 million to the contractors working on her Malibu beach house. So I hope for her sake that PETA is paying her bills these days. How else is she supposed to pay off her platinum-tiled pool?

Jul

PETA Calls Fur-Loving Janet Jackson ‘Desperate’

By Holly Won't
Categories: Activists, Fashionistas, Musicians, PETA, Television Stars and The Washed Up 15 Comments

Fine, so I’m Johnny One Note this week. Sue me. But I seriously laughed out loud when I read this quote from PETA about Janet Jackson deciding to wear fur:

As Janet Jackson has become the latest style icon to front Blackglama, a luxury fur company, the star has been slammed by animal rights groups.

A PETA representative said: “It’s amazing what celebrities will do when their careers are on a downslide, but we didn’t think that Janet was this desperate.”

PETA, seriously! You really want to talk “desperate”? Hello, your biggest celebrity endorser is Pamela Anderson. Who has most recently starred in…hmm. Some stuff in the ’90s.

Who else? Moby once had a musical career, I’m told.

And then there’s Corey Feldman, who is still totally popular with the kids these days.

My point is, PETA is stop numero uno for washed-up celebs who can’t get press for their talent anymore, so they might as well get some for their assets. Even if it means fronting for a group whose hard-nosed ideology they don’t fully understand. (I’m looking at you, Sophie Monk.)

Maybe if PETA manages to get Beyoncé or Lady Gaga or Robert Pattinson or Steve Carell on board with the vegan agenda, then they will have earned the right to talk like they’re still relevant themselves.

Jul

PETA and Pam Anderson’s New Ad: Sexy or Sexist?

By Holly Won't
Categories: Activists, Bad Boys & Girls, PETA, Television Stars and The Naughty Bits 16 Comments

I knew I liked Canada. On the grounds that the ad is sexist, Montreal has banned PETA’s latest publicity stunt: a billboard featuring a heavily airbrushed Pamela Anderson pushing vegetarianism. (Too bad she didn’t follow her own advice at her own wedding reception, and there inexplicably seems to be no conflict with her also promoting a NYC steakhouse.)

Here’s how BFFs Pam and PETA responded:

Pamela promptly issued this statement: “In a city that is known for exotic dancing and for being progressive and edgy, how sad that a woman would be banned for using her own body in a political protest over the suffering of cows and chickens. In some parts of the world, women are forced to cover their whole bodies with burqas – is that next? I didn’t think Canada would be so puritanical.”

PETA Senior Vice President Dan Mathews suggests that Montreal city officials are confusing “sexy with sexist.”

My first thought is that if I ever stuck a fork into silicone-enhanced chicken breast, I would demand a refund.

But my second reaction is much more serious, and that is PETA doesn’t grasp that its campaigns are blatantly sexist. I mean, for how many years have PETA interns been sent out into the world to protest naked? In fact, we’ve lost track of the number of times PETA has gotten our attention for putting nudity on billboards. And remember that not even a year ago, PETA unapologetically shamed Jacksonville women for daring to show anything less than a fat-free vegan body on the beach.

We’re at the point that PETA’s reliance on nudity for attention is no longer the titillating strategy it once was. The only real shock factor remaining is PETA’s ignorance of how its campaigns are perceived.

Jul

The Biggest Loser’s Trainer Bob Advocates Animal Rights

By Holly Won't
Categories: Activists, Foodies, PETA and Television Stars 9 Comments

Think Jillian Michaels has cornered the market for hypocritical Biggest Loser trainers? Think again.

With leather-wearing Olivia Wilde winning the female segment of PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian contest, we almost missed the fact that Bob Harper took the men’s title. And to underscore his reported veganism and commitment to total animal liberation, Ecorazzi found out that he’s signed on to be the spokesguy for Farm Sanctuary’s annual Walk for Farm Animals:

Harper will join the thousands of people across the nation who take part in the event annually to help raise funds for Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization.

“Bob is just as passionate about animal protection as he is about health and fitness, and we couldn’t be happier that he’s working with us to speak out for farm animals,” said Farm Sanctuary President and Co-Founder Gene Baur.

You don’t say.

Because I’m pretty sure that was Bob Harper shilling for Yoplait’s new Greek yogurt this season on The Biggest Loser. He also wrote a book on low-calorie, high-nutrient foods that dieters can use as tools to keep themselves full for hours — foods like turkey bacon, deli meat, albacore tuna, egg whites, string cheese, and grilled salmon.

Maybe I’m being too cynical and Trainer Bob tends to a magical tree on the Biggest Loser ranch that grows yogurt, tuna, and poultry with no reliance on farm animals at all. But then again, I’m really that cynical.

Jul

PETA’s Khloe Kardashian Is Kold Hearted Over Snakes

By Holly Won't
Categories: Activists, Fashionistas, PETA, Socialites and Television Stars 19 Comments

Khloe Kardashian is setting womenkind back about three steps in her epic freakout over a baby snake that found its way into her backyard last week.

Or actually, I’ll let her tell it her way:

I came home from running errands yesterday afternoon, went in the pool table room to turn off the light and there was a small (evil) SNAKE on the ground!!!!!! I screamed like mad and I ran into the kitchen to call Lamar, who was asleep in our bedroom. I was yelling at him to come downstairs and help me and he was soooo asleep and kind of confused. I said “Baby! What do I do? Should I vacuum it?!”He said in his sleep over the phone “Yes…is it small?” I hung up on him and attempted to vacuum the little creature up. Mission accomplished. I put the vacuum back into the closet and went upstairs. Malika called and I told her the entire story — she asked me if I actually killed the snake. I said no why?! She said well it can crawl out of the vacuum….. Soooo I screamed, scared Lamar out of his sleep again and I think you can figure out why the vacuum now lives outside of my house.

Khloe was clearly never a Girl Scout, because that right there would get her stripped of her Wildlife Badge.

What’s less clear is whether PETA will remove her from the “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” campaign now. After all, she seemed markedly less afraid of snakes when she carried an $850 Adriana Castro python clutch to a poker tournament last summer. (Even more hilariously, she carried a different python clutch to a Humane Society of the United States event in September, though I don’t know who made it and can’t verify that it’s real snakeskin. Pity.)

And between all that and the proliferation of leather she sells in her clothing boutique, in what way are they on the same side again?

Jul

Olivia Munn Wilde Is PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian!

By Pastafarian
Categories: Activists, Fashionistas, PETA and Television Stars 12 Comments

Edging out her doppelganger Olivia Munn, Olivia Wilde has been crowned PETA’s Miss Sexy Vegetarian 2010. Maybe the Olivias should fight it out. Preferably while dressed in leather. Speaking of which, they could totally do that because apparently it’s just fine with PETA if they wear animal skins. So it’s on! By the way, this is exactly how I like my women — like vegetables. (That’s what vegetarian means, right?)

PETA pats itself on the back because unlike their past sexiest vegetarians, this one is totally vegan:

Animal lover and activist Olivia Wilde proves that being vegan helps one shine from the inside out. She has saved lives on Fox’s hit show House and has saved the lives of animals off-screen by choosing a vegan diet. Going vegan saves the lives of about 100 animals a year! Olivia explains, “Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic.”

Torture factories? Like the one that made your $995 leather jacket? (Hint: The shoes are leather, too.)

I know some of you think we shouldn’t give PETA the time of day, but they just make it so easy, and I’m too lazy and ignorant to properly research this type of post so it is exactly the kind of thing I like. PETA and I have that in common.

Jun

Christy Turlington Would Rather Sell Louis Vuitton Than Go Naked

By Holly Won't
Categories: Activists, Businesses, Fashionistas and PETA 10 Comments

After making more money than she’ll ever need on the biggest runways during the ’80s and ’90s, supermodel Christy Turlington took a detour from modeling for a while, promoting yoga and vegetarianism and motherhood and other things in that hippie vein. It was during this era that she posed naked for PETA’s “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” schtick, becoming the first supermodel to appear in the ad campaign.

But now it’s back to life, back to reality, and back to major paychecks offered by the likes of Louis Vuitton:

For the forthcoming fall campaign, slated to break in a wide range of August titles, Christy Turlington, Karen Elson and Natalia Vodianova are shown preening in front of old-fashioned makeup mirrors backstage, as if they were ready to take a stroll around the fountain of the Louvre’s Cour Carré, the setting for Vuitton’s show during Paris Fashion Week in March. Ditto for the multigenerational casting — one model in her 20s, one her 30s, one her 40s — adding up to one of the most sophisticated Vuitton fashion campaigns to date, according to Antoine Arnault, Vuitton’s director of communications.

“The atmosphere was very Fifties, very elegant,” he related.

But it wouldn’t be ’50s without a lot of leather and fur. Seriously, look at the complete slideshow for LV’s Fall 2010 Ready-to-Wear collection: You’ll find fur-lined collars, fur-embellished bags, even a furry dress.

And yes, that would be Turlington on the right in the above ad for that same collection, hands wrapped in ladylike leather gloves and caressing a leather purse. Yet PETA still hypes Turlington’s support on its Famous Fur Foes page. But perhaps they should reconsider the strategy, considering the middle finger she and Louis Vuitton are giving in PETA’s direction right about now.

Jun

Hey PETA: Flying Airplanes With Preachy Slogans = Oil Spill

By Sarah Jessica Snarker
Categories: Activists and PETA 18 Comments

Along with the Hollywood Aid-Elite, the only high profile group more conspicuously absent from the oil-drenched Gulf Coast these last few months has been PETA.

Never mind that along with 13 people (but who cares about them, right?), the most recent statistics on the oil’s devastating effect on wildlife show an animal kill rate even higher than what you’d expect to find at a PETA shelter:

Dead Birds: 1,024

Dead Sea Turtles: 407

Dead Mammals: 47

And those are just the ones they can find to count.

Sure, the PETA folks could head down there and help scrub up some sea birds or wash off a few turtles. But why bother when you can really do something for animals in need by renting a plane and flying a banner with the message “Meat on Your Grill = Oil Spill” over the heads of stricken Gulf Coast residents in Mobile, Alabama?

Continue reading ‘Hey PETA: Flying Airplanes With Preachy Slogans = Oil Spill’

Jun

PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian List: A Deceiver.com Primer

By Holly Won't
Categories: Activists, Fashionistas, Foodies, Movie Stars, Musicians, PETA, Teen Idols and Television Stars 17 Comments

PETA’s annual Sexiest Vegetarian contest is now open for public voting, and the nominee list reads like a Who’s Who of Deceiver.com since the inception of our humble site.

To wit:

Carrie Underwood is defending her 2007 Sexiest Vegetarian title, despite the fact that she also shills for the dairy industry through the Got Milk? ad campaign.
The Twilight franchise’s Christian Serratos is in the running despite scooping up as much Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, and Louboutin leather goods as her bit-part paycheck can afford.
Morrissey is the clear dark horse here, considering that he still dines at steakhouses (and yeah, PETA is OK with that).
Just because Ellen Degeneres has a shot at the crown doesn’t mean she’s going to give up her side gig promoting Cover Girl, one of the largest cosmetics company still to test on animals.
If Ginnifer Goodwin wins the prize, we hope her acceptance outfit involves the same Versace, Balenciaga, and YSL leather bondage gear that she wore on the cover of W magazine last June.
Pam Freakin’ Anderson. Enough said.
We’re not sure how Hayden Panettiere made the final cut, given that PETA once criticized her for designing a Dooney & Bourke handbag “crafted of soft supple Italian calfskin and trimmed with gold leather piping.”
Moby probably deserves to win on the basis that his allegiance to PETA is all that remains of his career.
“Vegan” fashion designer Stella McCartney’s secret silk habit: We just can’t let this be.
Lea Michele of Glee fame may be anti-fur, but she still gleefully wears a pasture’s worth of leather pants, boots, and jackets.
Salmon-loving actress Lake Bell isn’t even a vegetarian, but she says it’s cool because she confessed at the vegan altar of Alicia Silverstone.
And neither is Sophie Monk, whom we busted at a Hollywood KFC in 2008.

Like shooting sea kittens in a barrel, folks.

Jun

Ricky Gervais Thinks Bullfights and Leather Are Somehow Different

By Pastafarian
Categories: Activists, Bad Boys & Girls, Fashionistas, Foodies, PETA and Television Stars 11 Comments

I was gonna try to be all serious, and show off my writing/journalistic skills but I don’t have any of either. And besides The Office creator Ricky Gervais teaming up with Pamela Anderson to try to stop bullfights in Spain? It sounds like a new show on TBS (Very Funny).

Well the wonder duo have in fact teamed up and are calling the show Prou! It means “enough” in Catalan. Oh it’s filled with the usual cast of hippies, etc. Ricky says:

“It sickens me to know that in this day and age, people are still paying money to see an animal suffering in such a horrific way,” said the 49-year-old.

And Pam has said…

“The most appalling kind of cruelty is that which is perpetuated in the name of mere entertainment.”

Yeah it’s a rough business. It’s better to not actually see cows turned into leather coats, like the one Gervais is sporting here, or leather seats and purses and steaks I guess. Besides. It doesn’t exactly seem like the best idea to ask Deceiver favorite Pamela Anderson to team up with you to get rid of anything. Unless it’s that bottle of scotch. Allegedly.

And it kinda looks like the bulls can take care of themselves. (Click here only if you really want to. Seriously. You’ve been warned.)

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