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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Cover it in pictures. Review the quality of the soy jerky.
@1 Got it in one.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Were going to need a bigger goat (to eat the lettuce bikinis).
PETA: doing its part every day to make a mockery of progressives everywhere. Thanks, PETA!
No, soy jerky!
Also:
No soy jerky!
No soy, jerky!
#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…
This poll is meaningless without pictures.
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
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.
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.
i wrote an article about peta already! it is right here: http://i.imgur.com/qrmT4.gif
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.
depends on who is wearing the bikinis.
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.
While I’m generally in favor of Lettuce Bikinis, I’m going to say ignore this one because it’s PETA.
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.
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.
soysage is pretty good. cant make gravy from it though
the best thing for the environment would also be to just whittle down world population to 2 billion or so.
If you decide to cover this, will you snark the shit out of it at least? Thanks.
@ 16 – THAT IS AN EXCELLENT ARTICLE.
I too, had an engorgement during breast-feeding.
And it would have been fixed by a cabbage bra.
Did they say if the bikini-wearers would be male or female?
@16: VERY INSIGHTFUL ARTICLE THANK YOU.
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.
Can you catch listeria through a nipple?
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.
@16 – I love you.
Someone wake me when PETA starts pandering to me with hot, naked men.
@16: THAT IS RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS.
@16 omigod…perfect !
yeah cover it because women wearing lettuce bikinis will make men stop being carnivores….this i gotta see..
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?
Yes, but soy jerky is still yuky.
@16 THAT ROCKED.
@36 I’ll bring the bacon, you bring the tomato. LET’S DO THIS
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?).
@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)
Sounds like this belong in a “What you’re not wearing” slog post!
This is one of those, I think his pants are on fire, kind of moments. Can’t stop laughing.
PETA actually makes me want to eat whales.
@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.
Ugh. I’m a vegan, believe that factory farming is horrible for the environment, and I can’t stand PETA.
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.