PeTA preaches veganism, which means you don't consume or wear any animal products.
Pamela, meanwhile, is a PeTA spokeswoman, so she must be vegan, right? Wrong!
According to Famousveggie.com, Pam is just a common or garden vegetarian. This tells us that she won't eat red meat, chicken, pork, fish or seafood. But more interesting is what it says about the things she does eat!
The same source defines three kinds of vegetarians, but doesn't tell us which one Pam is. Is she a lacto-vegetarian, who eats and drinks dairy products? Or is she an ovo-vegetarian, who eats eggs? Or is she, in common with most vegetarians, a lacto-ovo-vegetarian, consuming both eggs and dairy products?
Does Pam's menu each morning comprise yoghurt, followed by an omelette topped with cheese, with buttered toast on the side, all washed down with a glass of milk?
If so, then good for her: that's a nutritious breakfast! But hardly in keeping with the PeTA philosophy that animals are not for human use!
Carnivore cash
Meanwhile, Pam's more than happy to cash in on others' love for meat. In 2006, a new restaurant opened in Hollywood called BlackSteel, with a menu featuring such fine fare as smoked ham hock, crab cake, and ahi tuna.
And who is a partner in this carnivores' paradise? Pam, no less!
Commented Lisa Timmons, editor of the Paparazzi weblog A Socialite's Life, on the BlackSteel episode: "Next thing we know, we're going to find out your breasts are really made of veal."(1)
NOTES:
(1) Courtesy of "Hypocrisy, thy name is (still) Pammy," Center for Consumer Freedom, July 21, 2006.