PETA, or People for the ethical treatment of animals has recently gained support. Movie stars everywhere have been adopting pets, posing nude, and supporting their cause.

Jamie Bamber most famously known for his role in Battlestar Galatica posed nude in an ad supporting PETA. Battlestar Galatica is a forward thinking television show that has dealt with issues such as abortion, genocide and war and the tough calls that political leaders and people in the lime light have influence over. It is through this experience that Bamber realized that he had to make a stand for what he believes in. The inhuman treatment of animals is prevalent in society as fur has come into style.

However, this fashion to keep the same animals as celebrities do has created a fad for breeders around the world. Puppy factories have created and even greater threat to animal life, creating horrible living conditions for these innocent animals.

It is up to us to protect them. They cannot protect themselves.

In the article by Stephen Schaefer, Anika Noni Rose the leading female voice expresses pride in the latest movie and the message that it is sending to children. She hopes that it will inspire them with hard work and determination to allow them to achieve their dreams.

This has not always been the theme of the Disney movies. In fact The Disney Corporation has presented children worldwide with images of women who depend on their looks and sexuality to achieve a favorable outcome. These images have had a direct effect on children today; changing their behavior patterns and teaching them about sex at too young of an age and encouraging them to act in a sexual nature.

Disney is not the only one to blame. The Media has always represented women and men in unrealistic and almost unhealthy ways. This is especially seen with young girls. Growing up girls are given a Barbie Doll and all of her accessories from the Barbie Dream Home loaded with the Barbie Kitchen Set and Bedroom Set to encourage young girls to become domestic and aspire to be like Barbie.

These aspirations include good housekeeping but also entail Barbie’s signature look. When Barbie was first introduced into mainstream society she was a realistic impossibility. Her head was too big, her breasts too voluptuous, her waist too tiny, her hips too wide and her legs to long to be a functioning human being.

  Girls and women have been subject to images such as these for their whole lives and are convinced that it is beautiful. Eating disorders, depression, and self loathing are the results of Barbie, of the Bratz Dolls, of Disney Princesses, and of skeletal models who wish to look just like them.

It is unhealthy to teach a girl such unrealistic models of perfection for they will believe it and attempt to achieve it.

Eating disorders, unhealthy eating are prevalent in today’s society. As obesity is a rising concern amongst Americans teenage girls are turning to drastic measures to avoid becoming a statistic proving the gluttonous existence of fast food chains that is America. Girls have become bulimic and anorexic in an attempt not to gain weight and remain the stick like status quo. Not eating is as dangerous as becoming overweight.

Children look to the media today for images of what they should look like. Many little girls wish to grow up and become beautiful princesses who everyone will love. What is not prevalent in society is an accurate image of what a female should look like at a healthy weight. What children do not realize is that women who do look like that are unhealthy, sickly and in need of help. Children believe that it is capable of growing up and looking like that. They do not realize that reality is they cannot.