Jessica Simpson's meat shirt

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Jessica Simpson's meat shirt

 

jessica-simpson-real-girls-eat-meat.jpg Jessica Simpson was photographed

as she arrived at the Los Angeles airport Friday wearing a " Real Girls

Eat Meat " T-shirt.

 

It didn't take long for PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of

Animals) to pounce on her for her non-vegetarian ways.

 

The photo to the right is one doctored (the word " stupid " has been

inserted) and posted on " The PETA Files, " a PETA blog.

 

" For a gal who's best known for her less-than-stellar brains (Chicken of

the Sea, anyone?) and her ability to proportionately fill out daisy

dukes, I'm gonna go on record saying that if anyone had to wear a

ridiculous shirt like this, I'm glad it was Jessica — as people are more

likely to follow the opposite of her lead, " a PETA blogger wrote

<http://blog.peta.org/archives/2008/06/top_five_reason.php?c=pfjsrem08>.

Maybe the meat-eaters of the world will be embarrassed to be categorized

in the same field as Jessica Simpson. "

 

Simpson family insiders told OK! Magazine

<http://blogs.trb.com/cgi-bin/mt/www.okmagazine.com> that the slogan is

a dig at boyfriend Tony Romo’s ex-girlfriend, country superstar Carrie

Underwood -- who has twice been named " World’s Sexiest Vegetarian " by PETA.

 

In case this doesn't already have you feeling like you're back in junior

high, the PETA blog also lists " the top five reasons that only stupid

girls brag about eating meat. "

 

Here they are in their entirety:

 

1. Meat increases the risk of breast cancer. A 2007 study of 35,000

women published in the British Journal of Cancer found that women who

ate meat were far more likely to develop breast cancer than women who

consumed none. Will Jessica's next t-shirt will say, " Real Girls Smoke 3

Packs a Day " ?

 

2. Real girls don't support animal abuse. Compassion is super sexy, if

the huge number of hot celebs ditching meat is any indication. Young

women turn vegetarian in droves when they learn that the meat industry

cuts the sensitive beaks off newborn chicks and cuts off the tails of

baby piglets.

 

3. The meat industry is destroying the Earth. The only thing that's hot

about the meat industry is that it's toasting the planet. According to

the United Nations, raising animals for food causes more greenhouse-gas

emissions than all the cars, trucks, SUVs, planes, and ships in the

world combined.

 

4. Meat will make you fat. All the saturated fat and cholesterol in

chicken wings, pork chops, and steak eventually leads to flabby thighs

and love handles. I hope the upcoming " Jessica Simpson's Intimates " line

comes in plus sizes! Going vegetarian is the best way to get slim and

stay that way.

 

5. Eating meat steals food from starving kids. Jessica's trip to help

kids in Africa got a lot of media buzz, but by gnawing on meat, she's

essentially stealing food from the mouths of starving children since it

takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of meat. If more

people went vegetarian, we'd free up enough grain to feed every person

in the world.