Pam’s Piehole Part Deux

Pamela Anderson, Animal Lover
Head to toe, does she or doesn't she practice what she preaches?
Revised March 2008.
Pamela Anderson considers herself an animal lover and is an official spokeswoman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Like all "sensitive" PeTA babes, she wants people to break free from owning or benefiting from animals. That means no more meat, no fish or chicken, milk or eggs, no more wearing of animal fibers, no more animal testing for medical research, no pets, and so on.
Her PeTA credits include narrating videos opposing the leather and fur trades, and launching a line of "cruelty-free" cosmetics with proceeds going to her gurus.
Since Pam is such an eyeful, we decided to take a closer look at the standards she applies in her own life. Does she qualify as a true PeTAphile, or is PeTA exploiting her naïveté? Can she cross her heart and say she does not benefit from animals? And how sensitive, or smart, is she really?
HAIR: Pam's natural hair color, to judge from her February 1990 appearance in Playboy magazine, is brown, and that makes her a bottle blonde.
The active ingredient in hair bleach is hydrogen peroxide. This stuff is all around us, even in rain, but it's not that strong or we'd all be blondes! In fact, many mouthwashes contain hydrogen peroxide.
At the other extreme though, a strong solution of hydrogen peroxide can be used for rocket fuel!
Obviously, Pam needs something in between. And how can cosmetic companies be sure she won't harm her scalp? Animal tests of course!
Of course, we now know that a 3% solution is all Pam needs to have fun. But let's not forget all the bottle blonde bunnies that made this possible!
COSMETICS: In 1999, Pam launched a new line of supposedly "cruelty-free" cosmetics called Pamela, with the proceeds going to PeTA. PeTA responded by naming her Humanitarian of the Year "for her outstanding efforts to improve the plight of animals." Way to go, Pam!
But since then, Pamela cosmetics have been gathering dust. PeTA did announce that in February 2002 Pam donated bags full of Pamela cosmetics to abused and battered women in shelters because "they'll soon be job-hunting and she wants them to feel and look their very best."
Or perhaps the real reason Pamela cosmetics are being given away is because no one will buy them! In PeTA's 2003 Shopping Guide for Caring Consumers, Pamela cosmetics are not even mentioned.
So ... finding out exactly what goes into Pamela cosmetics is not easy. Or if Pam even wears them.
What we have found out is that unless you live in the jungle and rely on vegetable dyes to pretty yourself up, your lipstick and eyeliner contain animal fat. Slaughterhouses and butchers sell their leftovers to rendering plants, which process them all and sell the fat on to your favorite cosmetics company.
Oh, but hold up ... no one said Pamela cosmetics didn't contain animal products. They only said they were "cruelty-free". And what does that mean?
The US Department of Agriculture has this to say about cosmetics advertised as "cruelty-free" or "not tested on animals":
"The unrestricted use of these phrases by cosmetic companies is possible because there are no legal definitions for these terms.
"Some companies may apply such claims solely to their finished cosmetic products. However, these companies may rely on raw material suppliers or contract laboratories to perform any animal testing necessary to substantiate product or ingredient safety. ...
"Many raw materials, used in cosmetics, were tested on animals years ago when they were first introduced. A cosmetic manufacturer might only use those raw materials and base their 'cruelty-free' claims on the fact that the materials or products are not 'currently' tested on animals."
Until evidence to the contrary becomes available, we will assume (a) that Pam's lips are coated in animal product, and (b) that the ingredients were all tested on animals at some point.
Does that earn Pam a Humanitarian of the Year Award? How about Hypocrite of the Year?
(1) Pamela Anderson Donates Cruelty-Free Cosmetics to Women's Shelter PeTA press release, Feb. 21, 2002.
(2) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition; "Cruelty Fre - Not Tested on Animals."
LIPS: Over the years, Pam has either learned how to wear a permanent pucker or she's had lip augmentation.
One of the most common materials used in lip jobs is collagen, derived from the carcasses of animals, typically cows. Another is Hylaform, which comes from bird carcasses.
There are now alternatives that are not derived from animals, such as Restylane and Achyal, but even these were tested on animals before going to market.
CHEST: As a young adult, Pam's mammaries were modest in scale, but at around the age of 22, she had them enhanced for the first time, either with silicone or silicone bags filled with saline solution. Thereafter her breasts continued to grow until some shrinkage was noticed at about the age of 29. It is estimated that the amount of silicon residing in Pam's chest could be used to make 23 Pentium motherboards.
Field testing of breast implants has notoriously been carried out mostly on women. But toxicity tests have been conducted on animals, while other animal tests ensured the surgical techniques and anaesthetics used are safe for humans.
Pam's implants are also unfriendly to the environment. They are inert, resistant to extremes of temperature, and highly resistant to weathering and oxidation, which means they'll be hanging around in the ground long after her body has decomposed.
On another level also, her bosoms represent a double standard at work. In October 2003, Pam wrote to David Novak, CEO of Yum! Brands, parent company of KFC, apparently oblivious to the irony of her complaint. "I can't understand," she said, "why a company that claims to care about animal welfare would continue to allow chickens to be bred and drugged to be so top-heavy that they can barely walk."
(1) Pamela Anderson Lee's Breasts.
(2) See "Pamela Anderson Concerned about KFC Chickens,"Associated Press,
TATTOOS: Pam's barbed wire tattoo celebrates range fencing for cattle ranches (which she opposes, of course), but one of her tattoos is also the source of her current infection with the liver disease Hepatitis C. Or so she says.
Pam insists she caught the infection from former husband Tommy Lee after sharing a tattoo needle, a claim Lee has vigorously denied.
But however she caught Hep C, what are her plans to cure herself of this potentially fatal condition?
Well, she should stick to her first choice and take drugs tested on animals. In July 2002, Pam announced that from December she would be starting on a course of interferon in combination with other antiviral drugs.
But interferon has been extensively tested on animals since the 1950s. And so in November, she told a conference on liver disease that she was undergoing homeopathic treatment, partly because she wanted to avoid drugs tested on animals.
In an interesting twist, Pam has given her support to the American and Canadian Liver Foundations, filming a joint public service announcement for them. The American Liver Foundation is on a PeTA list of charities to boycott because it funds research involving tests on animals. Says PeTA, these "cruel" experiments "have no practical benefit to anyone. They are unnecessary, unreliable, and sometimes dangerously misleading."
In fact, PeTA has refused to condemn terrorists for attacking research facilities, while its vegan campaign coordinator, Bruce Friedrich, openly advocates blowing them up.
Pam, the researchers in those laboratories care about people like you. PeTA does not, or it would stop working tirelessly to shut down the very research that could save your life.
We presume PeTA has also influenced your decision to dump tried and tested treatments in favor of homeopathic medicine. For your sake, we hope you know what you're doing!
(1) Pamela Anderson plans hepatitis treatment, Reuters, July 24, 2002.
(2) Anderson blames rock star lifestyle for hep C infection, National Post, Nov. 16, 2002.
(3) Charities That Test on Animals.
(4) Speaking to the Animal Rights 2001 national convention in McClean, Virginia, July 2001, Friedrich said: "If we really believe that these animals do have the same right to be free from pain and suffering at our hands, then of course we're going to be, as a movement, blowing stuff up and smashing windows. For the record, I don't do this stuff, but I do advocate it. ... I think it would be a great thing if, you know, all of the fast-food outlets, and these slaughterhouses, and these laboratories, and the banks that fund them exploded tomorrow. I think it's perfectly appropriate."
LOVE LIFE:
Pam changed husbands again in 2007, hitching herself to One Night in Paris (Hilton) stud Rick Salomon. That's nice!
And so, apparently, was the menu at the wedding reception, that included pigs in a blanket, tuna tacos, and lobster! Reportedly, Pam didn't partake of these delights, but surely she knew they'd be on the menu.
She also parted ways from husband 2, a meat-eatin', leather- and fur-wearin' rap-rocker from Detroit called Kid Rock.
Pam had tried to change Kid, who hung up his trademark fur coats in favor of petrochemical fakes.
But he never changed his meat-eatin', leather-wearin' ways!
"I've been respectful of the PETA thing," he told the Detroit News. "I know she's been involved in that and it means a lot to her. I try not to wear real fur anymore. ... It's not like I'm changing my way of life, it's like, out of respect I don't do that. I still eat meat and all that, though. That's who I am as a person, and she understands that."
But Kid's change of heart may have had more to do with his loins than anything else, according to MSNBC reporter Jeannette Walls (Dec. 20, 2001). "She's cool and distant to him if he does anything that might be not animal friendly," an anonymous insider told Walls. "The other day, someone offered to let him try on a really cool men's fur coat, and Kid said no way. He said he couldn't have sex for a week if he touches fur."
It's a shame Pam couldn't show Kid the same respect he pretended to show her.
NOTES:
(1) "Inside Pam Anderson's Vegas wedding," OK Magazine, Oct. 8, 2007.
(2) "Kid Rock gives up fur, not meat," Detroit News, Dec. 23, 2001.
DIET: 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, 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 to be continued source: maninnature..