PETA has been blocked from airing an ad during the Superbowl that seems a bit like soft porn for vegans. The ad, shown below, shows models getting intimate with vegetables of various types with the tagline “Studies Show Vegetarians Have Better Sex.” It would be obviously inappropriate for most kids who will be watching. Vegeporn, however, could prove a new sensation with every other fetish covered on the Internet.
The ad is pretty explicit and it is surprising that PETA would want to show such material to kids, though the organization seems to primarily work to shock people these days. PETA appears to strive make people care more for animals by getting them to hate PETA. I suppose when people appear so obnoxious animals appear superior in comparison. [Update: PETA has now gotten into live shows in public parks.]
My greatest concern is that broccoli and cucumbers will now be sold in paper bags from behind the counter. The question is whether the vegetable industry will take the lead from the beef industry with an add campaign proclaiming, “Vegetables: Its What’s For After Dinner.”
Even YouTube feels it is necessary to get a sign on to acknowledge a warning on the content of the ad before allowing people to see it, here. As it turns out, Arizona viewers still ended seeing 10 seconds of real porn during the game. Though no doubt many Cardinals fans considered the game to be obscene and not appropriate for viewing by the end of the fourth quarter anyway.
For the video, click here
For my part, I am disgusted . . . and I would write more but I have to run to the market.
For the ful story, click here.
Buddha is laughing: I urge you to get some help.
I would urge Mr. Turley to BAN you for your statement about desiring to behead former President Bush.
Just maybe your post will end up being cut & pasted to the proper authorities. In fact I am sure it will.
A single shoe thrower and the millions (in America alone) who want his head on stick for being a traitor, war criminal and an imperialist fascist. Numbers only matter if you use them all, especially when counting.
On Saturday, Iraq conducted what may stand as the freest, fairest and most genuinely representative democratic elections the Arab world has ever witnessed. Yet even as the votes are being counted, the man responsible for this remarkable political revolution — who believed that Saddam Hussein’s hellish dictatorship could be turned into a model Arab democracy, and mobilized the might of the most powerful nation on earth to do something about it — has already become something of a forgotten man. But not forgotten by Iraquis who are making requests, ignored by the world media, for statues of President Bush be erected – unusual only when considering the outlandish media attention a single shoe thrower obtained.
If by free, you mean destroyed, then you’d be correct.
Iraq is now free thanks to President Bush.
http://www.rumproast.com/index.php/site/comments/misunderstood_vegetables/
Follow the link to the NPR story about grocers shot to death in Iraq for arranging vegetables in a suggestive way, namely a stalk of celery and two tomatoes.
Obama’s Antagonizing Our Allies Over Trade
In less than two weeks in office, Barack Obama has managed to antagonize most of our allies with the “buy American” provisions of the Democrats’ pork bill.
The Canadian government, as well as the EU, has protested strongly and warned of a trade war if Obama’s protectionist plan is adopted. This is how the issue is being covered in Toronto’s Globe and Mail.
As currently written, the Obama administration’s massive stimulus bill would require major public works projects to favour U.S. steel, iron and manufactured goods over imported ones.
Canada and other U.S. trade partners have warned that that’s precisely the type of protectionist tit-for-tat that turned the stock market crashes of 1929 into the Great Depression.
The Obama administration is now talking out of both sides of its mouth, trying to assure our trading partners that “something” will be done to avert a trade war, while not actually standing up to protectionist Democrats in Congress.
THIS REPORT IS VERY DISTURBING. OBAMA NEEDS TO WAKE UP. IN JUST TWO WEEKS WE HAVE JUST AS MANY FOREIGN COUNTRIES NOT LIKING US AS WE DID UNDER BUSH. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS NOW IT IS DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.
February 1, 2009.
Sarah Baxter, Washington
Less than two weeks into his administration, President Barack Obama is being portrayed by opponents as a new Jimmy Carter – weak at home and naive abroad – in an attempt to dim his post-election glow and ensure that he serves only one term. The charge has stung because it is being made privately by Hillary Clinton supporters.
Where does ice cream fit into all of this? Curious minds want to know.
Of course, the argument ‘women are animals, too’ falls pretty short, but for the broad biological Classification – ‘Animalia’.
The ‘animals’, PETA proposes to protect, unlike humans, are not capable of speech, rational thought, or of excercising free will, which is precisely what has occured in this instance. Bravo!
Now we can relax and not worry about any ‘Crudite Malfunctions’. Whew!
http://www.rickbayless.com/recipe/view?recipeID=67
Mexican “Crudite” Platter with Chamoy Dipping Sauce
Botana de Verduras y Frutas Crudas con Chamoy
Serves 10 generously
Ingredients
For about 1 cup of the dipping sauce:
2/3 cup apricot spread (not jam)
1/3 cup Tamazula (or other Mexican) hot sauce
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
For the vegetables and fruit:
1 pound jícama sticks (I get these from the salad bar at my grocery store)
1 pound cucumber round (from the salad bar, too)
1 pound radishes, cut in half
A generous pound (usually 2) peeled and cored pineapple (these are available in most well-stocked grocery stores in the produce section)
4 limes, cut into wedges
For the sprinkle:
1 teaspoon powdered hot chile (I like guajillo or ancho, because it’s not as hot as cayenne or árbol)
1 teaspoon salt (regular table salt mixes in better than coarse salt)
Directions
1 Make the dipping sauce. Scrape the apricot spread into a food processor and add the hot sauce and lime. Process until blended and smooth. Scrape into a small serving bowl.
2 Arrange the vegetables and fruits. Set the dipping sauce in the middle of a large round platter. Stand the pineapple on a cutting board and cut it into quarters. Cut the quarters crosswise into ½-inch slices. Arrange the pineapple, jícama, cucumber and radishes into quadrants around the dipping sauce, filling the space between each one with lime wedges.
3 Serving. Mix together the powdered chile and salt. Sprinkle it over the fruits and vegetables (it’s easiest to sprinkle evenly if you put the mixture in a small shaker).
You’re ready to serve.
I’m so confused. The Wall Street trader (previous post) was fired because he wouldn’t eat meat. So, are these women gay, too? or does this ad help prove that the Wall Street dude was not gay, or does…oh my?!
P.S. I agree with Jill that this ad degrades women. PETA frequently uses naked women in an attempt to make their point:
http://tinyurl.com/2ncp72
http://tinyurl.com/avd2ln
Doglover:
An interesting question to be sure. He may want to introduce the ad at the trial. It also demeans the vegetables, many of which are known to be bruise easily and resist exposure. Of course, the sexuality of the Swiss chard has long been the subject of heated controversy, but that is something for a whole different blog. The question is whether the vegetable industry will take the lead from the beef industry with an add campaign proclaiming, “Vegetables: Its What’s For After Dinner.”
Fetishes are a strange thing. On second thought, maybe we should be thankful picked vegetables as the objects of their desire. This ad could have REALLY gone to the dogs. And that’s truly unmentionable in it’s inappropriateness.
Decent fathers & mothers would not even ponder the appropriateness of this near obscene commercial.
But then again, it has been a long time since America produced many decent fathers & mothers. Almost as long as the NEA run education system has been “teaching” our young.
The commercial is indeed distasteful for a family program. Jill’s point that it is also using debasement to spread a message of non-debasement is conflicted is correct, but I don’t think showing it is really the answer without showing it in context. Run as designed, as an advertisement, it lacks any context but shock. I doubt it will be effective to garnering support to them. The axiom that any publicity is good publicity is just plain wrong.
were the vegetables of legal age?
Jill thinks the way to solve degradation of women is to put it 24/7 on tv and ridicule it.
Unfortunately our NEA run public schools have raised such an ignorant generation of kids and people now well into their 40’s that they would all just sit and drool at the TV set and expect more…
Welcome to the screwed up mess liberalism has given us.
It should be aired. PETA is an asshole for creating it. Women are animals too. Degrading women to protect other animals is stupid and shows a complete inconsistency of ideas. Oppression is oppression. Accepting one is accepting all. This kind of degradation is everywhere including the ubiquitous People magazine. The only way to protect kids from believing the degradation of women is acceptable is to ridicule it and live our lives disproving it. PETA thinks this ad is radical? About as radical as porno.
Ambimb:
I generally agree with you about our habit of censoring fringe views. However, the Superbowl is a national event that attracts millions of kids. I would have a hard time explaining this ad to my four kids . . . or my grocer.
PETA is a bunch of lunatics.
P = People
E = Eating
T = Tasty
A = Animals
Not sure how that little clip is any more explicit or inappropriate for children than the “Lingerie Bowl” or many of the other ads featuring scantily clad women that are likely to be aired during the super bowl and on any given Sunday. The U.S. is not only a country of prudes when it comes to sex and the human body, it is also a country of hypocrites when it comes to censoring unpopular or “fringe” viewpoints.