Study Shows That Students Ate More Vegetables After Seeing Pictures of Green Beans and Carrots
For Immediate Release:
March 12, 2012
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David Perle 202-483-7382
Memphis -- Holding a sign that reads, "Eat Your Veggies, Not Your Friends," PETA's pro-vegetarian mascot Chris P. Carrot will hand out stickers bearing pictures of vegetables to students outside Grace St. Luke's Episcopal School on Tuesday. The action comes on the heels of a study by University of Minnesota researchers who found that placing photos of green beans and carrots on elementary school kids' cafeteria trays led the students to eat twice as many green beans and three times as many carrots.
When: Tuesday, March 13, 2:45 p.m.
Where: Outside St. Luke's Episcopal School, 246 S. Belvedere Blvd., Memphis
"Kids' addiction to hot dogs and chicken nuggets may be making them fat and increasing their risk of developing deadly diseases," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "Encouraging kids to eat their veggies by showing them pictures is fine—especially if it helps them become the picture of good health."
The giant carrot mascot and other PETA members will urge kids not only to eat more veggies but also to consider dropping meat and other unhealthy animal products from their diets altogether. PETA points out that eating meat, dairy products, and eggs has been conclusively linked to strokes, diabetes, obesity, cancer, and heart disease, which can occur in young people—even those in elementary school. PETA also wants kids to know that going vegetarian is the best way to help stop the daily suffering of billions of animals raised and killed for food.
For more information, please visit PETA.org.