Problems with Pam

[VeggiEvie]

Did anyone watch "It's good to be Pamela Anderson" on E! ? They took a tour of the spa in cali where she goes and the owner(?) started to talk about the facial mask Pam uses.The mask is made from DNA molecules taken from a cow's placenta. At first I thought I misheard the guy, but he starts describing the process and how the DNA helps her skin stay young. The owner continues to say "Pam loves this treatment. She even takes some home with her."
I'm just curious if anyone else finds this to be odd? I was lead to believe that Pam is considered a strong animal rights activist. I know PETA loves to support vegans, so i guess i'm :confused:

[dvmarie]

I thought this thread was to announce that Pam cooking spray isn't vegan...........

Yuck - Placenta face mask. Yeah, I'd say it's a problem if it's true. She'll probably be scolded by Peta and maybe even have her lettuce leaves stripped (or are they cabbage leaves??).

[SallyK]

Ick. I am dissapointed in her. :down:

[revelsunrise]

I'm not disappointed. There are actually products that contain human placenta. If it's just the after-birth, then what's the problem?

[VeggiEvie]

i think that using a human placenta is just as awful. don't quote me on this, but i would think human's placenta is given voluntarily as opposed to the cow's. When the mask contains cow placenta DNA, I immediately think about where the makers are getting the placentas to begin with and then it becomes part of the huge problem.

[strawberry]

dvmarie, I thought maybe VeggieEvie meant that she didn't understand how to use Pam cooking spray! :) :) :D

Anyway, I did see that on TV the other day and was confused/disappointed. And just what VE said about where the placenta's come from is exactly what I was going to say. The whole animal product industry is all connected.

[kpickell]

I didn't know Pamela Anderson was still an animal rights advocate or a vegan. I thought she gave all that up. Maybe I'm mistaken. So many ex-vegan celebrities, who can keep track.

I also thought the thread would be about Pam cooking spray. ; )

[Corvine]

Well I've never heard of Pam cooking spray so I was doubly confused. Doesn't our Pammy eat fish anyway? I always wondered why PETA used her in their campaigns.

[Marie]

I thought this thread was to announce that Pam cooking spray isn't vegan...........


Me too. :)

[Alfiedog]

I heard a rumour that she was in a leather store and another celebrity AR person got really pissed off at her.

[catmorrison]

I didn't know Pamela Anderson was still an animal rights advocate or a vegan. I thought she gave all that up. Maybe I'm mistaken. So many ex-vegan celebrities, who can keep track.

I also thought the thread would be about Pam cooking spray. ; )

I didn't either...especially since she has hepatitis C.....
Diagnosis and treatment would undoubtedly include animal products.

[Joe]

Pam is interviewed in the upcoming May issue of Playboy. She is described there as a vegetarian, not a vegan.

"A devout vegetarian and animal rights activist, Pam also recently appeared in a pro-vegetarian ad wearing a bikini made of lettuce, which caused even devoted carnivores to crave salad."

...

"I also have the clothing line, which is 100 percent cruelty-free--no animal products, no animal testing, nonleather. I like that I can do so many different things, from helping educate people about the cruel way we treat animals to writing a column for women's magazines to posing nude for Playboy."

[Alfiedog]

From her website:

Pamela is also focusing her energies on four causes close to her heart. These are:
Creating public service announcements to generate worldwide awareness of Hepatitis C, with which she was also recently diagnosed.
Offering support and encouragement to women in domestic violence shelters, based on her own experience of domestic abuse.
Ongoing commitment to the ideologies of PETA which supports the end of all cruelty to animals. Sir Paul McCartney has presented her with a humanitarian award for her efforts in this arena.
Building schools for underprivileged children worldwide - starting in Guatemala - thru her involvement with Learning For Life.
A very hands-on mum who operates without the "normal" coterie of nannies and housekeepers, Pamela can whip up a vegetarian lasagna for 20 neighborhood kids without batting an eye and so it seems logical that she should be in the process of writing a children's vegetarian cookbook in conjuction with PETA.
By way of complete contrast, Pamela's next venture is an animated series, Stripperella, which she has co-created with Marvel Comic's own Stan Lee, who is riding on his own new wave of success with the box office topper, Spiderman. As a feisty secret agent cum topless dancer, Stripperella fights heinous crimes against womankind. The series The series exploded this year on Spike TV ( and was the highest rated show ever in its time slot) n and mirrors perfectly Anderson's own quirky sense of humor. The series is being sold worldwide.

[VeggiEvie]

man, i should have done my research. whoops.

[Michael]

I didn't know Pamela Anderson was still an animal rights advocate or a vegan. I thought she gave all that up. Maybe I'm mistaken. So many ex-vegan celebrities, who can keep track.

I also thought the thread would be about Pam cooking spray. ; )

I read in a recent (as in this month or last month) magazine interview that she is still into veg/AR issues.

I thought it was about the cooking spray too. :-/

[slynny]

I remember that interview being on recently, and although I didn't pay very close attention to it, I swear I remember them saying that she ate fish and seafood. :stinkeye:
So this really isn't about the spray then...

[Jennifer]

I dont believe everything I hear and read on these celebrity tabloids. Maybe the person at the spa got it wrong about Pam or maybe she did not know this facial contained those ingrediants. although I find the latter highly unlikely since she should be used to inquiring about ingrediants. I still admire her for sticking to vegetariansism when it is obviously not cool to be veggie anymore in Hollywood.

[Christy]

Wasn't there something recently about her (former?) chef on Howard Stern's show saying she ate seafood?

[catmorrison]

Are silicon implants vegan?
I mean the entire process?
Hmmmmm.....seems to me...it's cool to be veg*n when Pam finds it convenient.... :naughty:
Anyway, I've never really cared for her, personally.
I think she lacks any true talent, and so being a Peta-bot is probably the best she can do, aside from marrying rock stars.... :lol:

[Thalia]

How is cow DNA going to help your skin? Pam should be ashamed for falling for these false promises.

[Joe]

I still admire her for sticking to vegetariansism when it is obviously not cool to be veggie anymore in Hollywood.

According to the GoVeg.com/PeTA site:


Pamela became a vegetarian in her early teens, after walking into a shed in her backyard and seeing her father cut the head off a deer he had just hunted and killed. She has been a PETA member and ardent supporter of animal rights since high school.

http://www.goveg.com/feat/l-pam.html

[soilman]

revelsunrise writes:
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I'm not disappointed. There are actually products that contain human placenta. If it's just the after-birth, then what's the problem?
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The reason cows get pregnant in the first place, is because humans know that they won't keep producing milk for human babies, children, and adults to use, unless they give birth to bovines babies now and then. So the industry keeps a few male bovines around to "milk" for semen, to use to artificially inseminate thousands of females.

I suppose their natural children (as opposed to their unnatural children, the humans that feed on bovine milk), after being allowed to size up for a short time, are then marketed as veal calves? I don't know. But of course since small amounts of dna are extracted from large amounts of placentas, since you need "production" of large amounts of placentas to produce the dna, I would guess that cow-placenta products are integral with, inseparable from, the dairy industry. If dairy farmers can sell placentas, I would guess that they can make more of a profit, or charge less for milk -- it would help keep the dairy business in business.

[bizarro]

i also thought this was about cooking spray...

the placenta face mask doesnt bother me as much as her fur coats. they are real fur right?

[ChristyDotCalm]

VeggiEvie - I thought the same exacty thing! I thought I misheard the guy! But I didn't, because I heard it again on a rerun of it.

[Astarte]

How is cow DNA going to help your skin? Pam should be ashamed for falling for these false promises.

If cow DNA is good for your skin, you should just go out in the field and start rubbing up against one. I'm sure you'd get a lot of hair and skin cells off it! Might piss the cow off though... and they're big animals.

Pam is definitely into animals rights. Not long ago she sent letters to all the restaurants in my city (Saint John) urging them to put more veg*n options on their menu because we're the 3rd fattest city in Canada. What an honor.