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News & ArtsWednesday, November 30, 2011
Mailbag News Tip
Posted by Dominic Holden on Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:58 PM
On my voice mail just now: "Hi, Dominic, my name is Adam Miller, I am with PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Tomorrow in Seattle, two PETA activists wearing lettuce bikinis are going to be handing out free soy jerky at the 3rd Avenue electric vehicle charging station. The demonstration is in order to remind people that the best way to help the environment is to go vegan.... I just wanted to find out if this is something you'd like to cover in The Stranger."
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Putting women in organic bikinis that could tear apart at any second on 3rd Avenue? I hope the cops are on standby for all the assault calls that are going to come in from that block.
4
The best way to help the environment is not "going vegan." More BS. The best way is to stop driving cars all the time and stop buying electronic gadgets that make life "easier". Those gadgets are made in countries that are destroying their environment to supply the west with the latest i-gadget. The cars we all know about. Eating veggies that have to be trucked in from 1500 miles away is hardly "eco friendly". Eating lamb or chicken or beef grown 50 miles away is eco friendly.
5
Is it ethical to raise chickens in your backyard on table scraps, organic feed, plus whatever they eat off the ground, and then eat the eggs?
If so, why does one need to be a vegan? If not, how is it unethical?
If so, why does one need to be a vegan? If not, how is it unethical?
6
People should donate to PETA if they want their money to go towards funding lettuce bikinis and press agents. People who actually care about animals might choose to spend their dollars elsewhere.
7
Assign Charles to it.
He can tell us the political and ethnographic significance of soy jerky and how lettuce is exploited by the prudish attitudes of born-again vegans.
He can tell us the political and ethnographic significance of soy jerky and how lettuce is exploited by the prudish attitudes of born-again vegans.
11
#4 If you're an American, the best thing you can do for the environment is not have a child. http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcas…
13
5 & 6 for the Co-Win!!
Srsly, when did frat boys take over PETA? Eons ago, they actually WERE concerned about the ethical treatment of animals... Now it's just one stupid stunt after another (remember the "Sea Kittens"?) and their so-called 'cause' is definitely NOT being helped..... sheesh....
/rant
Srsly, when did frat boys take over PETA? Eons ago, they actually WERE concerned about the ethical treatment of animals... Now it's just one stupid stunt after another (remember the "Sea Kittens"?) and their so-called 'cause' is definitely NOT being helped..... sheesh....
/rant
14
Anyone else think that PETA is funded by the meat industry to make us (people who actually care about EFFECTIVE action towards the ethical treatment of animals) look like nutjobs?
Plus, someone needs to send them a copy of "The Sexual Politics of Meat" stat.
Plus, someone needs to send them a copy of "The Sexual Politics of Meat" stat.
15
The soy jerky I've had has actually been pretty tasty, although actually calling it 'soy jerky' is just setting people up to dislike it.
17
soybean farming is actually very hard on the environment, exhausting the soil quickly unless you use massive amounts of petrochemical based fertilizer, pesticides and intensive planting/harvesting measures (not to mention patent seed for herbicide resistance).
If we used even a low-tech 3 crop rotation of fallow/cereal/legume, with animals being pastured on the fallow fields and slaughtered when those fields are no longer available for grazing, that would maximize production of calories relative to inputs, reduce runoff, topsoil loss, exhaustion, and produce higher quality meat. My grandparents used this method, neither of them made it past the 6th grade-but they knew enough not to screw up their land, because it was all they had.
If we used even a low-tech 3 crop rotation of fallow/cereal/legume, with animals being pastured on the fallow fields and slaughtered when those fields are no longer available for grazing, that would maximize production of calories relative to inputs, reduce runoff, topsoil loss, exhaustion, and produce higher quality meat. My grandparents used this method, neither of them made it past the 6th grade-but they knew enough not to screw up their land, because it was all they had.
19
This just reminds me of when I had "engorgement" early in breast-feeding and was told to wear a bra of cabbage. It worked, but body-warmed cabbage does not make one come across as attractive, even to a hungry baby.
20
While I'm generally in favor of Lettuce Bikinis, I'm going to say ignore this one because it's PETA.
21
PETA's philosophy is "there's no such thing as bad publicity" and maybe that's messed up, but it's not stupid. It's why when they call Slog, Slog posts about it. And it's why you all comment when Slog posts. How many people can name even one other vegan advocacy group off the top of their heads? If PETA was as serious and somber and respectable as you all say you want them to be, you'd never have heard of them.
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Fuck PETA. They spend all their time and money on wrongheaded fucking causes instead of doing good where there's actually good to be done. If they spent half as much time actually using effective tactics to fight factory farming and animal abuse as they do spewing stoned nonsense about veganism and "sea kittens" they'd be a great organization. As it is they're nuts.
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the best thing for the environment would also be to just whittle down world population to 2 billion or so.
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If it's sexy, cover it!
@11: Wrong, the best thing you can do for the environment is murder everyone on the planet and then kill yourself.
@11: Wrong, the best thing you can do for the environment is murder everyone on the planet and then kill yourself.
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Oh, I get it. They're handing out jerky because they're going to be getting a knee jerk reaction!
Heh.
Although PETA could wear anything and hand out anything, and do anything -- or nothing -- and still get the same knee jerk reaction. It's like when Omar walked to the store and the dealers we so scared they just threw out their drugs and money on sight.
Knee jerks.
Heh.
Although PETA could wear anything and hand out anything, and do anything -- or nothing -- and still get the same knee jerk reaction. It's like when Omar walked to the store and the dealers we so scared they just threw out their drugs and money on sight.
Knee jerks.
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@16 omigod...perfect !
yeah cover it because women wearing lettuce bikinis will make men stop being carnivores....this i gotta see..
yeah cover it because women wearing lettuce bikinis will make men stop being carnivores....this i gotta see..
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I hypothesize that women who a) would wear lettuce bikinis in public and b) are wide-eyed enough to believe in PETA are c) easy.
Does the Stranger even have anyone on staff able to test that assertion?
Does the Stranger even have anyone on staff able to test that assertion?
40
The poll is exactly wrong. It should be a choice between "Yes, soy jerky!" (because I'm sorry, that shit is delicious--no one who has eaten Pringles is allowed to mock soy jerky) and "No, ice-cold lettuce bikinis!" (because what is this, seventh grade?).
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@21 Mercy For Animals
They just got McDonald's and Target to drop an egg supplier because of an undercover video showing animal cruelty. A video that presumably didn't involve half-nude chicks. (Other than the feathered ones ba-dum-bum)
They just got McDonald's and Target to drop an egg supplier because of an undercover video showing animal cruelty. A video that presumably didn't involve half-nude chicks. (Other than the feathered ones ba-dum-bum)
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@11, THANK YOU for posting this article. I have been saying basically this for years (adding more consumers to the world is bad for the environment...really, how fucking difficult is that to comprehend?), and people always look at me like I have a dick growing out of my head. At least now I have an article I can point to.
46
Ugh. I'm a vegan, believe that factory farming is horrible for the environment, and I can't stand PETA.
47
Soy jerky = imitation meat. PETA is saying here that meat is so yummy, vegans simply *have* to eat sorry imitations of it, rather than stick to tasty vegetables.
@17--thank you for pointing out the environmental issues of soy culture. Eating an honest piece of pasture-fed beef or lamb is much better for the environment, and your body, than some over-processed soy-based faux-meat crap.
@17--thank you for pointing out the environmental issues of soy culture. Eating an honest piece of pasture-fed beef or lamb is much better for the environment, and your body, than some over-processed soy-based faux-meat crap.
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