O_o now they're invading Australia...

[fireheart17]

PETA tells a town to "stop eating meat" if they don't want to be labelled the fattest town in the Northern Territory

Yeah....basically a guy who runs the Aussie chapter of PETA contacted the mayor of Palmerston, NT, stating that he has a way to get the town back to "fit' again-by ditching meat.


In a town where killing their food is the way of life? Uh no.


I always used to think that the Northern Territory were the sane ones....apparently not. (that title was formerly reserved for Queensland *ducks* )

[Cats]

Meat clogs all the major organs. Yep. My skin is totally clogged with meat. My Liver, too. It's even clogged my stomach with its deliciousness.

Methinks the town should come up with some kind of slogan. Something like, "we may be the fattest, but at least we're not the dumbest". Or maybe just a "Fuck off, PETA".

Also, labeled as the Fattest by whom? PETA? Actual statistical studies?

In all seriousness though, SOMEONE has to be the fattest. When you start ranking anything, there's always someone (or something) at the top and someone at the bottom. It's just the way things are.

[hinakiba777]

In all seriousness though, SOMEONE has to be the fattest. When you start ranking anything, there's always someone (or something) at the top and someone at the bottom. It's just the way things are.

This is absolutely true. It's like Best/Worst lists. Someone will always be at the bottom of the list, because it's ranked.

But yeah...way to go PETA. *sighs*

[AccountingDrone]

Some of the fattest people I know are vegans - they will dig in to all sorts of fairly fat intense avocado based stuff that is hundreds of calories for a tiny serving ... and then chow down upon huge amounts of fruit and fruit juices [which are effectively sugar water with a few micronutrients] and the whole vegan smoothie movement is freaking insane [from a nutritional standpoint]

And these are people I tend to meet in my diabetic Nutritional Education classes

[fireheart17]

Also, labeled as the Fattest by whom? PETA? Actual statistical studies?

From my guess, the fattest town in the state.

Some of the fattest people I know are vegans - they will dig in to all sorts of fairly fat intense avocado based stuff that is hundreds of calories for a tiny serving ... and then chow down upon huge amounts of fruit and fruit juices [which are effectively sugar water with a few micronutrients] and the whole vegan smoothie movement is freaking insane [from a nutritional standpoint]

OK, I've heard of the first two (which is the reason why my family and I have ditched fruit juices entirely...I drink mineral water), but what is the vegan smoothie movement?

[AccountingDrone]

OK, I've heard of the first two (which is the reason why my family and I have ditched fruit juices entirely...I drink mineral water), but what is the vegan smoothie movement?

More or less the same as the idiots who claim that juicing and making smoothies will cure everything - except instead of a yoghurt/dairy component they use soft tofu, nut butters [like almond nut butter thinned with soy, rice or almond milk - all very high and more or less empty calories.

I have a vegan friend who is into the wheatgrass/tofu/almond butter and almond milk thing, he will add stuff like fresh mango, banana, canned mandarin oranges in *syrup* and what not "because fruit is healthy" - I ran one recipe of his through a cookbook program and 8 oz was over 1100 calories, 60% of which were *fat* based. He will drink 4 or 5 of these a day and complains because he seems to be gaining weight.