Billboard Controversy

A PETA billboard stationed in Jacksonville, Florida, with the tagline “Save the Whales. Lose the Blubber: Go Vegetarian” has sparked much controversy. Objectors to the ad have called it sexist, size-ist, and even speciesist. A protest against the billboard was held outside a bookstore in Portland on Wednesday where Ingrid Newkirk was signing books. The protesters claim that the billboard is demeaning to women and that it exploits their bodies. Newkirk disagrees and says that “women can do whatever they want with their bodies, and these protests are going back to the times when husbands and boyfriends told us to cover up. Now these other women are telling us to cover up, too.” PETA sure knows how to get attention, be it good or bad.