PETA: Saving Whales — And Eating Them Too

Fat folk — and their slimmer supporters — are up in arms over the new billboard above from PETA, the be-nice-to-animals folks.

Apparently, PETA has clearly forgotten the necessity of being nice to people with this churlish new ad.

Indeed, as we can personally attest, shaming pudgsters is no way to get them to go veggie!

Anyway, the ad — on display in “little houses”-filled Jacksonville, FL is already causing some heavies to complain.

Though PETA is having none of it — and is shamelessly defending its right to make others feel bad.

“Trying to hide your thunder thighs and balloon belly is no day at the beach,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman in a release. “PETA has a free ‘Vegetarian Starter Kit’ for people who want to lose pounds while eating as much as they like.”

Whatever.

What is interesting, however, is PETA’s own — and quite odd — relationship with whales and whale meat.

If you do not recall — and who does — back in 2001, PETA made a stab at veggie-irony with a campaign challenging folks to stop eating chicken and start eating whales instead.  Whales — the same animals PETA now wants to save from the American obese.

PETA says the campaign sought to both illustrate the cruelty and illogic of eating any flesh/animals as well as the economics involved in consuming poultry versus whale.

It kind of makes sense — but is clearly a stretch.

What do you think, reader: Is PETA’s anti-fat folk ad OK or offensive?