Getting Naked for PETA

So here's the latest work from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - PETA - in their no holds barred campaign to make people think about eating meat, wearing fur, and being, in general, indifferent to the suffering and abuse of the wild and domestic animals with whom we share planet Earth.

PETA, led by a force of nature named Ingrid Newkirk, is engaged in a full on assault on the public consciousness. For the average person, the path of least resistance is to take an 'out of sight, out of mind'  attitude toward the meat they eat and the animal products they buy.  PETA's approach is to find ways to deliver stark 'wake-up calls' that reach the average person's soul.

The PETA  I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur campaign has aggressively and skillfully combined advertising technique and celebrity support to discredit the fur industry.  They have made it unfashionable, even socially unacceptable, to wear fur coats or any kind of clothing made from animal skins.

 

 

 

PETA produces public service videos that extol the benefits of a vegetarian diet, while showing the gut wrenching cruelty inflicted on millions of chickens, cattle,  pigs, fish, and other animal species killed every day to feed our need for burgers, fillets, cutlets, and other types of cooked animal flesh.

Here's a fact. It takes about ten pounds of grain and a lot of water to produce one pound of meat.  History shows that humans can be very healthy eating lower on the food chain.  Not everyone is going to become a vegetarian. I get that. But, everyone can consume less meat,  much less meat.  This step embraced by humanity would take us very far down the road to a future that is compatible with nature. It is a step that would save every one of us money. It is an essential way to keep life as we know it going over the long term.

Compassion is a way of being worthy of our species. Kindness is the quality I admire most in people.  Such people try to avoid causing pain or suffering.  They are certainly not indifferent  to it, when they are fully aware of it.

PETA is using sex to get the public's attention.  Good for them.  I have developed projects that do the same thing.  

In the case of the In Your Own Skin' print ads and video,  PETA features beautiful young women to lure in viewers, then they reveal 'in your face' clips of human brutality to animals. You are confronted with the ugly reality PETA wants you to see.  If you look, and you are a compassionate person,  you cannot be indifferent.

Here is a link to the PETA website ... http://www.peta.org/

Here is a link to  the  In Your Own Skin video  PSA that features four gorgeous beauty queens getting naked for PETA.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/13/miss-usa-winners-peta-pose-naked_n_3436503.html#slide=2184928

X-Rated PETA

Ingrid Newkirk and her merry band of noble miscreants are now x-rated.  You have to admire the aggressive, take-no-prisoners way that PETA pushes back against abuse of other lifeforms. For nearly a decade they've been using print ads featuring celebrities posing provocatively, all of them saying the same thing....They'd rather go naked than wear fur.

Now, the folks at PETA have racheted up the titilation another notch. They've created their own special brand of xxx website. It features a bunch of adult stars, led by big dog Ron Jeremy, Sasha Grey, and Jenna Jamison, using sex to draw in the curious.  Rather than a salacious display of nudity and sex, the site is laden with a range of worthy messages about kindness and animal welfare.

I love the folks at PETA. You have to admire people who operate fearlessly, battling for animals who cannot defend themselves.

The PETA.xxx website link is   http://www.peta.xxx/Default.aspx

PETA

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. aka PETA,  is an organization dedicated to protecting living creatures and assuring they are treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.  The folks at PETA are warriors. They don't play nice when dealing with people or businesses that abuse defenseless animals.  Ingrid Newkirk, the leader of PETA, is  very tough. She and her associates don't care if some people are offended by their often hard-hitting strategies for exposing the terrible way animals are mis-treated in our society.

Literally billions of chickens, hogs, and cattle are brought into the world annually, and treated as commodities rather living beings that are just as vulnerable to pain and stress as humans. These creatures are subjected to every kind of abuse as they are raised then slaughtered, with only one thing in mind, maximum profit.  PETA shines a harsh light on the unsavory and largely hidden cultural practices that turn living, feeling creatures into cheeseburgers and McNuggets. Regretably, in our society, children are raised to recognize the food they eat as nothing more than edible tidings one buys at the store. 

PETA is not the only non-profit fighting back against animal abuse, but they are definitely one of the most aggressive. They operate fearlessly.  I admire Ingrid Newkirk and her band of change agents.  They are a force to be reckoned with, and their cause could not be more noble and decent.

Here is a link to the PETA website...

http://www.peta.org/