PETA continues it's rapid descent into madness

These lunatics equate meat eating with child abuse.

Youngstown, Ohio — In response to a startling report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that obesity is poised to overtake smoking as the leading cause of death in the United States, PETA is launching a massive anti-obesity campaign by placing billboards in cities throughout the country, including Youngstown.

The billboard, which is located on Express and South Avenue Loop, shows a pudgy-faced kid about to scarf down a hamburger, with the tagline "Feeding Kids Meat Is Child Abuse. Fight the Fat, GoVeg.com." PETA aims to remind residents of Youngstown that the consumption of animal products is linked to life-threatening diseases.

An estimated 64 percent of Americans are overweight or obese, a situation that led to 400,000 deaths in 2003, according to the CDC report. Disappointingly, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services played down the threat of obesity and its underlying causes by saying that no major lifestyle changes are necessary to fight obesity and suggesting that overweight people start taking walks.

Why is feeding kids meat child abuse? Our national addiction to meat is bad enough for adults, but it is even worse for kids and is making them fat and sick. In addition to suffering from the social difficulties of childhood obesity, which can cause lifelong psychological trauma, children fed a diet of saturated fat- and cholesterol-laden burgers, nuggets, and hot dogs show symptoms of heart disease by the time they reach first grade.

"The damage from a meat-based diet is like a ticking time bomb in kids," says PETA’s vegan campaign director Bruce Friedrich. "Vegetarian kids are slimmer, have more energy, get better grades, and are all-around better off than their meat-eating peers."