Posted by Sarah Wolf, June 20, 2008 at 7:30 PM
In response to Jessica Simpson's meat-lovin' t-shirt—now available through the 23rd from Primehouse New York—PETA came up with "Top Five Reasons Only Stupid Girls Brag About Eating Meat." It's nothing we haven't heard from PETA before; the reasons are generally valid warnings about breast cancer and the environment, couched in PETA's typical propaganda rhetoric. But reason number four, "Meat will make you fat", is just plain offensive—especially since the post described Simpson as best known for "her ability to proportionately fill out daisy dukes" and expressed hope that "the upcoming 'Jessica Simpson's Intimates' line comes in plus sizes."
Excuse me, PETA, but whether we choose to eat a nice juicy steak or a big bowl of rice and beans, "real girls" don't all have to look like (rumored vegetarians) Kate Moss or Avril Lavigne. [via Grub Street]
Slate calls PETA's $1 million prize "nothing but a publicity stunt."
Posted by Raphael, April 21, 2008 at 10:30 AM
In vitro meat: is it meat? PETA is set to announce on Monday a $1 million prize to the "first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012." The decision caused a "near civil war" within the organization "since so many PETA members are repulsed by the thought of eating animal tissue, even if no animals are killed."
Previously
The Meat of Tomorrow
'Dressing the Meat of Tomorrow' at the Museum of Modern Art
Posted by Raphael, February 17, 2008 at 10:00 AM
During the recent Congressional hearings, Bruce Braley, a Democrat from Iowa, asked Roger Clemens if he had ever been a vegan. Clemens, dumbfounded, responded, “I don’t know what that is. I’m sorry."
PETA, feeling the need to educate, couldn't help but mail Clemens a care package of vegan treats, including vegan chocolate bars and faux beef jerky. Which I'm sure turned him around.
PETA has created a guide to vegan foods found along your local grocery store's aisles called I Can't Believe It's Vegan. The goal is clearly to make it less painful for people to switch to a vegan diet, but factory-processed foods seem like they'd be far worse, both for the planet and for humans, than humanely raised animals. Nothing tastes better than a considered meal. [via Cooked Books]
Posted by Robyn Lee, July 19, 2007 at 1:30 PM
What better way to celebrate yesterday's National Hot Dog Day than with...veggie dogs? PETA handed out free Yves veggie dogs outside of the House of Representatives Rayburn building as the the American Meat Institute hosted their Annual Hot Dog Lunch. Two Playboy playmates were also on hand in lettuce bikinis to help promote a non-meat eating lifestyle. I can't say they'd influence my meat-loving ways, but maybe a few lobbyists became vegetarians for a day.
