Comments on: PETA Shames Overweight People With “Save The Whales” Campaign

By: Hfhhsh

Hfhhsh — Thu, 26 May 2011 05:15:00 +0000

For once I agree with PETA. You people need to stop feeling sorry for yourselves and do something about your weight. I have been vegetarian for 9 years and it saved my life and made me start paying more attention to what I eat and turned me off of crap food that is convenient. you are all going to have heart attacks if you don’t accept you have a problem. It is not fair for your families and your kids that are adapting the same eating habits and lifestyles as you. Obesity is an epidemic and I think the government should start putting warnings on food like they do on cigarette cartons. I’m not saying that cutting meat out of your diet will help you, but stop seeking pity when at the end of the day you have dug your own grave. Do something about it. This is the wake up call you need.

By: bunnie

bunnie — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:02:04 +0000

i agree with you alot i may be only 16 but this sign is so wrong i cant belive they did this i mean i love whales but it doesnt mean you have to diss overweight people

By: ababababab

ababababab — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:17:20 +0000

HAHAHAHHAHAHA well what a coincidence, my friend and I call these fat girls at school whales

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By: Shelley

Shelley — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:38:34 +0000

I can’t believe people allow others to influence their lives like a drug. Are you SERIOUS???? Listen, women, men and children…if your embarassed over something you have no control over…?>then you, I and anyone else out there may as well, go outside with our stanley shovel, dig a hole, jump in and have someone bury us. Get real. We are no less anything else other than what God created us to be. Your life is maybe just for one person to come to realize the truth. And THAT will set them free. Cry over a billboard??? Lose a day to spend with family and friends because you mis-interpreted a billboard>??? complain of “rights?”…because PETA tries to show us that animals are killed for human pleasure? Think about it…how many men or women do you know who hunt deer, or moose, or bear, or rabbit and take it home, skin it, then eat it? Are they really that poor that they “have to” go and hunt for food? I don’t think so. There are other means of protein available to us. God intended men to hunt when it was necessary to eat. We live in an abundant country where no one needs to hunt unless your living off the land. And in that, even a cow would do, that they don’t have to go hunt deer, moose, bear or buffalo. Get a grip on your own life and stop caring so much about what one other person may think of you and think on how much you think of yourself. How dare you, beautiful woman…let another person or entity smack you down to their size.???
May God bless us all.

By: kb

kb — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:13:42 +0000

The majority of the people responding are insensitive jerks. There are many reasons people are overweight — some are lazy and have no excercise and poor diet — others have chemical imbalances that cause weight gain and make it hard to lose weight. I have never met an overweight person who is HAPPY that they are overweight. I think this ad is completely insensitive and really lowers my opinion of PETA. They can do great things to help animals – but this is not a way to get support.

By: Joshua Mikael

Joshua Mikael — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:28:08 +0000

I don’t agree with insulting your target audience on issues like this, especially when the goal is to change minds.

However, “we must not avoid with our eyes what they endure with their bodies”.

The saddness an overweight person feels is not more valuable than the pain an animal feels during slaughter, and therefore does not move me to sympathize with an overweight human more than an animal whose fate is sealed by inhumane and unethical systems entrenched in our society.

It’s probably quite difficult to live an obese life in modern society–I would not be able to adequately express the trials and tribulations an obese person faces because I am not obese–but it’s significantly more painful to be an animal in our society. That’s the bottom line.

But when attempting to shift someone’s mindset on hot-button issues, insults don’t generally work.

By: Tracey

Tracey — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:08:23 +0000

I think that what some people miss are the BMI guidelines are not the end and be all of things. Have you ever wondered where someone like Serna Williams falls on that chart? Overweight is not always that big nor is obese. People that fall into these categories are not always people who do not eat correctly and exercise. Some just aren’t in a lower calore intake than calories burned state right now. That does not mean that they are inhaling burgers at every turn.
You don’t know a person’s history in order to assume that the state that they are in is automatically an unhealthy one.For all you know that person was even bigger and has reduced their risks by changing their lifestyle so get off yoru high horse about just wanting people to be healthy. You’re not so worried about that size 2 chick who eats almost nothing, gets no nutrients, and lives off of coffee and cigarettes so don’t tell me that your anger and hate comes from wanting to see people be healthy or less stress on insurance companies. If that were true you’d be mad at every person who went into McDonald’s, buys Fritos, or picks up a 2 liter not just those who happen to show their bad eating habits on the outside.

By: s

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:43:04 +0000

I AM A FAT VEGETARIAN. and i can tell pee-ta exactly where to put their sign…

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:43:56 +0000

Trying to convince people to go veg simply out of health concerns or losing weight is not the way to go. Most people who go to veg to loose weight do not stick with it. Ethical veg*ns are most likely to stick with it. Why not some billboards and advertisements that show animals suffering and with messages about what happens to those animals instead of naked chicks or anti-fat advertisements?