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PETA Argument Essay

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In our society, it has been noticed that women are more identified and associated with their body images than men and are valued by how they look. To gain social acceptability, women are under constant pressure to correct their bodies and appearances to conform to society’s ideal feminine figure. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, also known as PETA, is an animal rights organization that focuses on establishing and defending the rights of all animals. “PETA operates on the simple principle that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment.” In a campaign to promote pro-vegetarianism, Pamela Anderson poses wearing a bikini with her bodied marked, as if being labeled at a butcher shop, her body parts labeled as “rump”, “round”, “breasts”, and so on, as the ad reads “All Animals Have the Same Parts”. PETA believes in animal rights, and they compare women’s bodies to animals in order to dissuade individuals from eating meat. PETA’s ads frequently feature depictions of almost entirely naked women put in positions, settings and clothes to take after animals. While the advertisement of Pamela Anderson effectively attracts attention to the likeness between humans and animals, it only reinforces the fragmentation, objectification and …show more content…

In the past, a woman with a fuller body type was seen as more beautiful than one who was thin. They were viewed as healthier and more able bodied to reproduce. That ideal has developed into… As it stands, beauty is seen as thin more times than less unhealthily thin, having long legs, often tall, and forever maintaining the vision of youth no matter the age. This image can create an obsession within women and young girls to achieve this perfect body, including the urgency to lose weight fast in whatever way they can including the hope they place in vegetarianism to get them

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