In fact, a well-balanced diet including some meat is probably healthier because it includes sufficient iron and B-vitamins. There are plenty of unhealthy vegetarians and vegans, and on a vegetarian diet you have to be more careful about getting sufficient protein and various vitamins.

Veggie living is sometimes 'more healthy' from an obesity standpoint just because most fast food and restaurants cook with meat and dairy. These celebrities undoubtedly have a dietician on hand to ensure that they are sufficiently nourished.

PETA (and the populace) would be better served by promoting moderation- limiting meat to 2 or 3 times a week, but they'll never do that because they think that all meat is murder. From a resource management perspective, most meat is inefficient, save perhaps wild (nuisance) deer and some grass-fed beef, if the pastures they use aren't useful for crops.

uh I eat meat and I hate PETA but uh.... it's a good ad. , well Alicia looks hot.

-Nathiest

Oh no! I sense much malnourishment in the future . . . or possibly not. The sad part has already been pointed out by 112358, which is that different people have different dietary needs. I have fat, weak friends who have been vegetarians all of their lives and skinny, healthy friends who could not survive without meat, tasty tasty meat. I personally believe that some people just have a genetic predisposition to it. You're just born that way, or not. I swear I'm talking about vegetarianism.

There are a lot of other good reasons to go vegetarian or at least reduce your own personal amount of meat consumption, the big one for me being the horrible way that meat gets onto your table. A magical fairy doesn't point a wand at an animal to make a hot dog for you. There's a gory, gory, bloody, howling, uncomfortable death behind each and every pack of hot dogs, each and every bit of meat you eat. My grandmother was a butcher back in the 1960s. She assured me that the blood that runs in each of the animals you eat is just as red as yours.

I'm a vegetarian, but PETA is one of my least favorite organizations out there. I don't eat meat because I've never liked the taste of it, and once I stopped eating meat for a while I found out it made me feel sick, when I did.

Also - as fantastic as Alicia Silverstone looks I can't help but wonder, what on earth does being naked have to do with being a vegetarian? And, are there PETA ads with naked men in them?

"I know it’s a healthier lifestyle"

That's my main problem with PETA - that people who seem to have no interest in their ideology, still buy into that particular insane claim. Humans are omnivores, human diet includes meat. Can humans survive without meat? Sure. Do some vegetarians have healthier diets than what's considered the "typical" American diet? Certainly. But to say that the exclusion of meat, in itself, improves your diet is, well, "unsupported by scientific evidence," to put it mildly.

My personal thoughts on vegetarianism* aside, PETA consistently favors exploitative, underhanded tactics to foist their questionable ideology on others - they are just not an organization I can respect. And hey, whatever happened to all the outrage about the salacious use of the female form to sell products?

Anyway, sorry about the rant.

* Personally, I'm with Anthony Bourdain on this one: "Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, and an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food." (Kitchen Confidential) But, hey, that's just me.

Does anyone else automatically think "vagitarian" after seeing "Imagine Me & You"?

meat, no meat....as they say, dip me in honey and throw me to the lesbians!

Look its Alicia Silverstone.  I totally forgot about her.  Hey, she’s naked.  Wow, she still looks good—and young, but not toooo whoreish.  She was in that movie, what was it?  The one those 20somethings love.  Hey, let’s put her in a pilot, something where she’s all talkie to girls, like she was  in that movie, what was its name, but a little older and with a job.  It’ll totally help our prime demographic recapture its youth.  It can’t miss.  Glad I saw the ad.

Rather than trying to persuade people not to eat meat, they should be hounding all those involved in the meat industries to raise animals in a humane and "ethical" manner. Slaughter would indeed be the end, but the animals need not live in horror.

No amount of nudity or pretty advertising is going to stop people from eating meat. Ever. They should put the money into lobbying the right industry people.

Wow. Simply wow. There's a lot of PETA haters among us... I figured for an organization that tries to bring some rationalization and realization to why and how people are cruel to animals... more people that are exposed to the same cruelty of our society would understand or at least respect what orgs like PETA does. (Hint: if you can't connect the dots, you need to start looking inward).

PETA does it's shocking campaigns because it's the only way to get most people to look. In our world of flashy and violent media, if they don't come out with boobs flashing and blood flaming, you probably wouldn't even see them. PETA is renowned because of it's visibility. Start looking and you'll find thousands of organizations that are aiming for the same goals. PETA is hated, feared, and simply revered for what it does. To them, that's a success because you're actually seeing our cause.

PETA does actually campaign for less meat consumption but is not as vocal about it because gee, once you go down to two or three meals a week... why not just let it go? I'm not going to go into all of the reasons to go vegan but let me just say this one thing. People are always appalled at how dogs or cats (typical lesbian stereotype: all hands raised for cat lovers) are treated by people or on the other spectrum, how things like Matthew Sheppard happen. Or how we continue to fight in wars based on political or political reasons. And I simply have to ask: Can you draw the lines? Where does black turn to white? Can you draw the line between old and young, tall and short, rich and poor, good and bad?

If you can't draw the line between what is okay to control, torture, maim, kill... then you need to reconsider your values. As long as people have faint lines (oh it's okay to kill animals for meat) then you need to determine the lines where meat is okay. In Korea they eat dogs. For Hindus, it's generally unacceptable to eat cows. For Muslims, it's a sin to eat swine. For myself and most vegans/vegetarians, it's inherently wrong to kill any living thing that has a nervous system or has flesh. We could go further to be Jains but that's one hell of a step and for me, is a possibility. One form of violence to any other being will not and does not stop at any line because no such line exists. Your violence toward animals for meat is no different than another's violence toward dogs or to other human beings. And screw compassionate killing. That's like angry love making. It's an oxymoron. It'll never work. In other and much more complicated conversations... there is no room for meat consumption on this planet. Especially for six and a half stupid people.

Alicia, you rock. Naked or clothed, you're simply amazing.

Isn't Alicia a vegan??  I thought she was, hmmm.  There is a big difference.  Anyway, I like the ad, sorry...I'm a sucker for a hot naked woman. Plus, I had a big crush on Alicia when Clueless was out.  Ads are simple, direct - PETA is just trying to get one message across, be a vegetarian.  I'm a meat eater, I limit myself but I do eat meat.  I feel my body needs it, I've tried to not eat meat and I felt heavy all the time ( I did it healthly, cookbook, I really gave it a go) no energy.  We all have to make better choices, that's just life in general. Whether it pertains to your diet or not.  Keep trying to better yourself and you won't feel guilty, no matter your choice.  Conscience decision making is what it's about.  Start a revolution, change yourself first.  Or celebrate the way you are, stand by your convictions.

xo Karma

I've been vegetarian for around 13 years now (since high school).  I just cant get over the fact its another living creature that had to be killed when I can survive on other things. Not fond of eating carcasses. 

I'm not fond of PETA either.  Ever since they came out with drink beer not milk ads... and I learned they euthanize animals I stopped supporting them.  There are many other good no kill shelters and organizations to support.

Any diet can be terrible, veggie or otherwise.   I don't care if you eat meat or not, its just not for me.

One question.. why does she have to be nekkid??  ugh. 

As a vegetarian myself (by choice, naturally), I'm honestly not a huge fan of PETA. I think there's a  lot of misconceptions regarding vegetarians all being extremists when it comes to animal rights.... And I just don't think PETA does anything to disprove that myth. I'd much rather support WSPA, I feel it's less preachy.

It all comes down to personal preference, I cop a fair bit of slack from my friends for being vegetarian (generally 'stupid' 'poser' & 'that's not the way humans were meant to evolve' jokes and/or insults) but, like being a lesbian, it's something that feels right for me, so I do it.

Let's just say I don't think that their marketing is as targeted as it used to be. I agree with one of the comments above... they lost me when they began their 'drink beer, not milk" campaign.

And here we are trying to argue that our lifestyles are still healthy? Yep, good one PETA.

...she's HOT.

Now I remember why I had such a crush on her after seeing her in that Crazy video a decade ago.

Nature is a wonder. Every living thing dies and fertilizes the earth from which plants grow. No matter what you eat, you can't not be part of a cycle that includes the death of animals. The earth beneath your feet is partially comprised of decomposed animal carcasses.

I'm all for responsible consumption including grain fed, free range poultry and beef. Excess is usually bad in everything.

I don't eat a lot of meat because it's not my favorite food, but if I don't eat any meat I get anemic. My body has difficulty absorbing iron in pill form. Vegetarianism isn't healthy for everyone.

As for PETA, my feeling is that propaganda is never right, no matter the cause. And while I did enjoy the commercial, I have to stop and think...what if it were a commercial for something else? It'd be just another exploitive sex sells commercial wouldn't it?

"If you were a vegetarian you'd be as hot and sexy as Alicia Silverstone" is what this commercial is saying.

Aw, I'm sad that you gals didn't include Maggie Q's pics!

Yes thoes Chilis were real, Maggie herself said that they burned