Pam and PETA are at it again.
The Montreal Film and TV Commission is in the news today for denying a permit to the anti-meat organization and Pam Anderson, who was set to unveil her new PETA poster in the city today. PETA sought a permit to hold the unveiling of the poster, in which her body is marked up with labels for each body part as if it’s waiting for a butcher’s cleaver, in Old Montreal, according to the National Post.
“I have to inform you that we, as public officials representing a municipal government, cannot endorse this image of Ms. Anderson,” the commission’s Josee Rochefort wrote in an email to PETA. “It is not so much controversial as it goes against all principles public organizations are fighting for in the everlasting battle of equality between men and women.”
Anderson called the city’s behaviour puritanical. “In a city that is known for its exotic dancing and for being progressive and edgy, how sad that a woman would be banned from using her own body in a political protest over the suffering of cows and chickens,” she said.
A Canadian Member of Parliament says PETA should be labeled as a “terrorist” organization after a protester pushed a pie into the face of Canadian fisheries minister Gail Shea while Shea was giving a speech Monday in Burlington, Ontario.
