Tell PETA To Take Down The Billboards!

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PETA’S latest obnoxious billboard features a fat woman in a bikini that says “SAVE THE WHALES, Lose the Blubber, Go Vegetarian.”

This billboard is offensive, misleading, and encourages fat hatred.

I have contacted PETA about the billboards. The only way to contact them via their site is to report an animal in danger, so I decided to frame my letter in this way. Here’s mine:

I’m a writing in regard to PETA’s billboards in Florida. Because humans are animals, and billboards like yours are size-ist, sexist, and contribute to demonizing a significant portion of society, I consider that putting animals in imminent danger. There are plenty of vegetarians who are thin, fat, healthy, not healthy and every combination of the two. Calling fat women whales does nothing to contribute to the dialogue around animal abuse. It only serves to legitimate hate. If you really care about creating a more loving, peaceful, caring world for animals, including humans, TAKE DOWN THE BILLBOARDS!

Please contact PETA and let them know that fat hate is not an acceptable marketing campaign. Feel free to copy and paste my letter or come up with your own!

20 thoughts on “Tell PETA To Take Down The Billboards!”

  4. this is ridiculous. as you said, golda, vegetarianism is definitely not for everyone and doesn't directly correlate to size or health. thanks for creating awareness around this horrific ad – just wrote them a note.

  7. Yeah! It's such b.s. Vegetarianism is not a guaranteed road to thinness or health. It's merely a guaranteed road to not eating meat, at least for a while, which can be healthy for some people and not for others. I guess that's too much to fit on a billboard…

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