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PETA Guilty of Cruelty to Humans
21Aug2009 Filed under: In the News Author: Katie Jay
When I was about eight years old, the coach of my summer swim team singled me out at our sunrise practice to do exercises in front of the team. I’m sure he commented on my weight, because I remember feeling humiliated, hurt, and angry.
Later that morning, when my coach was in the snack bar, I went in and ordered several candy bars in front of him. I ate them all. The candy-bar incident served two purposes: I successfully communicated to the coach, “You’re not the boss of me!” and I numbed my intensely painful feelings by eating all that sugar.
Small Bites, my weekly e-zine, goes to thousands of readers, and I’m certain almost all of you have a similar story to tell, and many of you worse stories (I have some, too.).
In the news recently is another example of cruelty toward heavy people.
You might have heard about the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animal’s (PETA’s) recent billboard, which features an obese woman in a bathing suit at the beach with the caption, “Save the Whales; Lose the Blubber, Go Vegetarian.”
The Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) has responded to this offensive billboard, and I hope you do, too, but the harm is already done. People have been hurt.
I don’t know about you, but things like this just break my heart. I can understand a person’s discomfort with obesity. I don’t like it, but I understand it. Most of us don’t want to be obese.
It’s the cruelty that gets to me.
If you want to tell PETA how you feel about this inhumane billboard, go here to learn more: www.obesityaction.org/news/2009/oacandpeta.php
I applaud the OAC for speaking out on this incident. Prejudice and cruelty to people of size is not acceptable and the more we speak out against it, the better.
I am posting this article in my blog, too. Please go there and share your comments on this article. Maybe you have a story to tell…
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The author of Dying to Change: My Really Heavy Life Story, How Weight Loss Surgery Gave Me Hope for Living, and Small Bites: Daily Inspirations for Weight Loss Surgery Patients, Katie Jay, MSW, Certified Wellness Coach, is a nationally recognized expert on weight loss and weight loss surgery. She is the founder and director of the National Association for Weight Loss Surgery (www.nawls.com). An online membership organization created to help weight loss surgery patients master their eating, mindset, and lifestyle to achieve long-term weight loss success.
Leavchip
August 21st, 2009 at 5:55 pm
thank you Katie for saying this- I agree with you about PETA and the words were cruel and hurtful to so many people.. not the best move they could have made for sure.