Canada Bans Pam's PETA Ad

Officials claim it's sexist
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Jul 16, 2010 10:27 AM CDT
Canada Bans Pam's PETA Ad
Pamela Anderson poses for PETA.   (PETA)

Pamela Anderson managed to get her PETA ad banned in Canada without even going naked. She was in Montreal to unveil the pro-vegetarian ad, in which she wears a bikini while marked up like a piece of meat, but officials denied the event a permit because, they say, the ad is sexist. One official attempts to explain: “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.”

“How sad that a woman would be banned from using her own body in a political protest over the suffering of cows and chickens,” Anderson said in a statement to Us. “In some parts of the world, women are forced to cover their whole bodies with burqas—is that next? I didn't think that Canada would be so puritanical.”
(More Pamela Anderson stories.)

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