Comments on: Do you slip her the hot beef injection?

Do you slip her the hot beef injection?

jonson — Sat, 01 Feb 2003 23:24:03 -0800

Teenage Girls Not Getting Enough Meat... At least, not according to the American Beef Industry, which concoted this laughably ridiculous "lifestyle" site to appeal to god knows who, ostensibly focused on teen girl issues (prom? dating?), but with a thinly veiled meaty agenda beneath it all. Bonus points for the horrifically Avrilesque domain name. Marketing. It's what's for dinner.

By: Peter H

Peter H — Sat, 01 Feb 2003 23:31:47 -0800

Real girls are "keepin' it real" by building strong bodies and strong minds... and they're feeling great about themselves! too bad all the images are from clip art with that terrifying fish eye view... keppn' it rilll.....

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sat, 01 Feb 2003 23:36:44 -0800

When I was a teenager, I did more than my fair share to make sure teenage girls got enough meat. It's up to the next generation now.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sat, 01 Feb 2003 23:37:42 -0800

By: thatweirdguy2

thatweirdguy2 — Sat, 01 Feb 2003 23:40:47 -0800

What type of beef do you most like to eat with your friends? Steak Tacos Burgers Subs Good grief... (tacos are winning overwhelmingly, BTW)

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sat, 01 Feb 2003 23:42:46 -0800

"That's not a sandwich, that's a Manwich™!"

By: jdaura

jdaura — Sat, 01 Feb 2003 23:47:02 -0800

oddly, it gets weirder: This project was funded by beef producers through their $1-per head checkoff and was produced for the Cattlemen's Beef Board and state beef councils by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. Uhm, so, what, everytime they killed a head of cattle, a dollar went to funding the "Little Girls Need More Beef" project?

By: shepd

shepd — Sat, 01 Feb 2003 23:56:22 -0800

Ooo... the fight is on! Who'll be first to brainwash the kids? News at 11!

By: X-00

X-00 — Sat, 01 Feb 2003 23:59:11 -0800

Ok, that is pretty weird, but my favourite "meat product for group" site has to be Pork 4 Kids, especially the Farm Tour.

By: jdaura

jdaura — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 00:00:40 -0800

Don't forget to check out the other exciting meat related kid's website brought to you by your friends at Kids.com ... BURGERTOWN!

By: HTuttle

HTuttle — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 00:08:43 -0800

Checked out the cool chat room but there was some dude named Ritter hogging the room with his bitchin about Bush and Iraq and stuff. He sounded alot older than 17 too.

By: 4easypayments

4easypayments — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 00:14:23 -0800

GravityTeen is another site with the focus on "self-esteem", yet with the subtext of telling abortion horror stories.

By: rhyax

rhyax — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 00:18:37 -0800

I like hearing what "real" girls say about things. Also, that is some pretty wacky link placement. "Take a free personality test to see how you fit in"
personality test is just in bold for fun though, good freakin' luck finding a link!

By: arto

arto — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 00:45:47 -0800

Rhyax: You actually went around that site looking for links? Guess I'm not in their demographic... Now as a special treat courtesy of our friends at the Meat Council, please help yourself to this tripe.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 01:16:03 -0800

cattlemen's carcass ~~dating~~ data service

By: 4easypayments

4easypayments — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 01:22:50 -0800

From Burgertown: When you want a yummy beef dinner that takes only 10 minutes in the microwave, what can you ask your parents to make? a: Popcorn from an Iowa cornfield b: Pre-cooked pot roast from the store c: Pizza from school d: Pasta from Italy Forgetting for a moment the bewildered looks on parents faces when their children ask for a yummy beef dinner that takes only 10 minutes in the microwave, the sources listed for these foods are fascinating: pasta comes from Italy, popcorn comes from Iowa, pizza comes from... um... school, and pre-cooked pot roast is the only one of these which comes from a store, where it magically appears in the freezer cabinets.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 01:27:34 -0800

The Meat Council Presents: "MEAT AND YOU: PARTNERS IN FREEDOM" Number 3F03 in the "Resistance is Useless" Series

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 05:07:34 -0800

Hey - quit picking on beef and beef producers! BEEF IS GOOD, and BEEF IS TASTY. You can't deny it. mmmmmmmmm...steak...........

By: PenDevil

PenDevil — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 05:24:50 -0800

If god didn't want us to eat cows, why did he make them out of meat?

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 05:38:18 -0800

PenDevil: You're made of meat. And you've been looking a little plump lately as well. *does his best Hannibal impression*

By: Scoo

Scoo — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 06:12:42 -0800

While mostly avoiding red meat, I feel the occasional burger or meatball sub is OK. Hell, perhaps it will have a positive effect in countering anorexia (only half kidding). Stealth marketing of this sort doesn't worry me too much though, and this site typifies why. The dated look and feel and painfully out of touch slang radiates focus group phoniness. Teenagers are very smart and media savvy, and can spot a fake a mile away. I just can't take very seriously the idea of a bunch of teenage girls actually hanging out at Web "community" sponsored by the beef industry.

By: syzygy

syzygy — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 06:15:13 -0800

Here's a site I was involved with (backend coding, not design): http://www.misslo.at/ The site is operated by a large pharmaceuticals company. The target audience is teenage girls, age 12-16. The product is Wyeth's brand of birth control pill, though I believe the company is not allowed to explicitly sell or recommend the pill to its target audience. This is a 360 degree campaign, in my employer's parlance, including new media, traditional advertising and events. (To see pictures of events, click the "Pictures" link under the "Events" item in the link header). The site is in German, and it does make use of some annoying, noisy flash (not my fault). I hate advertising, marketing and consumer culture, but it does put beef on my dinner table...

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 07:27:36 -0800

I hear that American boys aren't getting enough.....testosterone. No wonder there's a "meat gap"! ...amazing what you can achieve - in vitro - with low levels of dioxin and other estrogenic persistent organic pollutants!

By: kozad

kozad — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 07:33:25 -0800

How about the recipe (if you were sick enough to spend more that eleven seconds on this site) for "Pizza Pie with Mashed Potatoes?" I thought it would be one of those weird pizzas from Japan, where potato pizza is everywhere, but, no, it's really just shepherd's pie (a pound of hamburger baked with mashed potatoes on top) with a catchy "with-it" pizza-y moniker.

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 07:37:11 -0800

Mmmm...steaky!

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 07:44:23 -0800

Damned soy-commissars, enfeebling a whole generation of young American women!

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 07:52:11 -0800

Uhm, so, what, everytime they killed a head of cattle, a dollar went to funding the "Little Girls Need More Beef" project? These check-off programs are quite controversial. NPR did a story here about the beef check-off, and why some small/organic ranchers have a big problem with it. Basically: They don't think that their product benefits from campaigns like this and "Beef:It's What's for Dinner" and consider it an abridgment of free speech that they have to pay (in part) for the programs.

By: Resonance

Resonance — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 08:11:41 -0800

Oh my god... BURN THE INFIDELS!

By: rough ashlar

rough ashlar — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 08:12:47 -0800

and consider it an abridgment of free speech that they have to pay (in part) for the programs. Its not so much a free speech issue, but more 'taxation without representation' issue.

By: Blake

Blake — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 08:20:09 -0800

"When I was a teenager, I did more than my fair share to make sure teenage girls got enough meat. " Funniest. Comment. Ever.

By: ambivalentgirl

ambivalentgirl — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 08:31:08 -0800

'Mom, the flashy kewliez colors are hurting my eyez!' 'Then go to the eat-more-yummy-carrots site dear.'

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 08:42:40 -0800

cheesecake? nope. meatcake.

By: britain

britain — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 08:50:03 -0800

Metafilter: I make sure I to eat healthy.

By: filmgoerjuan

filmgoerjuan — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 09:13:23 -0800

That GravityTeen site that 4easypayments linked to sure doesn't look like it's for teens...particularly when you go to the Abortion Images section (Warning: graphic abortion images). The pop-up this link normally generates still has the title "Abortion Images, GravityTeen builds confidence and personal power in teens who face pregnancy and abortion issues". Yeah, right. I think I prefer the beef industries propaganda techniques.

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 09:39:04 -0800

GRAVITYTEEN, GRAVITYTEEN.COM, the GRAVITYTEEN.COM logo, GET YOUR FEET ON THE GROUND, LEAN INTO IT, ALWAYS LAND ON YOUR FEET, THE PLACE THAT PULLS IT ALL TOGETHER and WHEN YOUR WORLD IS UPSIDE DOWN are trademarks of the Vitae Caring Foundation. what are those, Ace of Base songs? also, it appears that the Vitae Caring Foundation is a division of Maine's Right To Life, which is some kinda pro-life kinda jig.

By: Frank Grimes

Frank Grimes — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 09:44:36 -0800

The only answer to this problem is mandatory hot beef injections. Hindu girls seem to do alright without beef.

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 10:23:20 -0800

jonson, Why do you hate beef so much?

By: Shane

Shane — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 10:43:26 -0800

The Beef Industry telling us how good beef is for us? What'll be next, Oil-man Bush telling us how much we need to exploit oil reserves?

By: 4easypayments

4easypayments — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 10:44:11 -0800

Stealth marketing of this sort doesn't worry me too much though, and this site typifies why. The dated look and feel and painfully out of touch slang radiates focus group phoniness. It's only a matter of time before ad agencies begin to understand what is necessary to make teens accept this sort of steath marketing. "Truth", the campaign by the American Legacy Foundation does this amazingly well. I have no problems with the Truth site because I personally agree with their goals. If the the same techniques were applied to just about any other topic though, I would be fairly horrified.

By: jonson

jonson — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 11:09:58 -0800

"Truth" works light years better than any of the sites linked on this page, but I think they've still got a long way to go before it comes across as credible "hip" advice rather than public service announcements. For a good contrast though, compare them to the laughably inept (and deliberately so) "anti smoking" commercials put out by the cigarette industry, the Phillip Morris spots make me want to smoke just to get back at the lame preachy kids in the commercials. Man, who thought THAT was a good idea, making cigarrette companies produce anti smoking spots. The most watered down crap ever. Let's also remember that when it comes to rebelling against what they are told to do for the sake of coolness, no one beats teenagers, so the Beef Industry (and the Anti Smoking Industry, et al) are a little behind the eight ball to begin with.

By: NorthernLite

NorthernLite — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 11:51:56 -0800

QUOTES: If god didn't want us to eat cows, why did he make them out of meat? ..... You're made of meat. And you've been looking a little plump lately as well. What? And nobody mentions the classic sci-fi story: www.terrybisson.com/meat.html ("So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact." "They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines." "That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat.") BTW the figure skater Sasha Cohen has an endorsement deal with one of the beef associations. She's about 4' 11'' and 90 lbs. I think the average cow could eat her for breakfast.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 12:13:11 -0800

"I think the average cow could eat her for breakfast." And they would, too, if they had the chance. It's them or us.

By: matteo

matteo — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 12:14:49 -0800

I think the average cow could eat her for breakfast Only if she's vegetarian

By: varmint

varmint — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 12:18:41 -0800

soylent teen

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 12:27:46 -0800

I think we're getting some serious simpsons spillover from the neighbouring thread. Should we call in a clean-up crew ? :)

By: BackwardsHatClub

BackwardsHatClub — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 12:47:17 -0800

Hey, let's not forget Cows N' Us. I love a good steak but these sites are pretty ridiculous. It's links like this that really make me enjoy meatfilter, err metafilter.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 14:53:23 -0800

"Cigarettes are known to contain Carbon. You know what else contained carbon? HITLER!!!!" The "Truth" campaign doesn't work at all. Namely because the don't do it. Every commercially I've seen from them lately has been so transparent in it's lies it makes me sick. I'm about as anti-smoking as they come, but those adds are ridiculous. You can't scare kids into not doing something they think is cool. And the psudo-scientific arguments they make are so obviously meaningless that no one would be scared anyway.

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 14:55:32 -0800

fun banner at kids.com

By: zaack

zaack — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 15:37:45 -0800

As an ex-smoker for about 5 years now, I normally have no interest in being around cigarettes at all, but those "Truth" ads just make me want to light up. I know that partially has to do with the whole lack of respect for authority thing I have going on, but jeez...a bunch of self-righteous kids preaching about how evil tobacco companies are? I think most normal kids would want to be as different from these government puppet-teens as possible.

By: stvc15

stvc15 — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 15:38:48 -0800

Another reason not to have kids. And to die.

By: adampsyche

adampsyche — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 15:42:36 -0800

a bunch of self-righteous kids preaching about how evil tobacco companies are? Don't shoot the messenger.

By: IshmaelGraves

IshmaelGraves — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 15:48:23 -0800

Exactly, zaack; "Don't be a tool of the Big Bad Corporate Behemoths — be a tool of your Friendly Government Behemoth instead!" And as delmoi pointed out, the distortions and lies and statistics fabricated from whole cloth which Truth employs kind of make them raging hypocrites. I think dying a few years early is a small price to pay for the pleasure of annoying that particular brand of self-righteous scum. I'm sorry, did somebody say something about lack of respect for authority?

By: Dillonlikescookies

Dillonlikescookies — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 16:05:44 -0800

"...it's really just shepherd's pie (a pound of hamburger baked with mashed potatoes on top)" You crazy Americans! A pound of hamburger baked? What the hell? Like an apple pie, but with meat and gravy inside. It's a god damn meat pie! A MEAT PIE! A MEAT PIE WITH POTATO BAKED ON TOP! No wonder your beef producers are sinking to this level to try and get you to buy the damn stuff. The rest of the world has meat pies, why the hell don't you? Grumblegrumblegrumble...

By: Kevin Sanders

Kevin Sanders — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 16:14:06 -0800

I'm with delmoi and zaack about how bad the Truth ads are. It just makes me want to rebel by flipping the bird to the TV and lighting up. The first few Truth ads years ago were pretty good, where it had more solid facts.

By: benjh

benjh — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 16:33:29 -0800

"Madam, your daughter has colon cancer. Very odd for a 17 year old girl." "But doctor, just like the web site says, she has her daily 22 servings of beef. How could this possibly happen?"

By: Satapher

Satapher — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 19:41:28 -0800

STOP HARASSING COWS! DONT DRINK MILK! STOP HARASSING COWS! DONT DRINK MILK! STOP HARASSING COWS! DONT DRINK MILK!

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 20:30:01 -0800

Northernlite: I am in your debt for reminding me of the "Meat" Sci-Fi story: "They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?" "Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat." "I thought you just told me they used radio." "They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat." "Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?" "Officially or unofficially?" "Both." "Officially, we are required to contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in this quadrant of the Universe, without prejudice, fear or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing." "I was hoping you would say that." "It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?" "I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say? 'Hello, meat. How's it going?' But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?" "Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can't live on them. And being meat, they can only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact." "So we just pretend there's no one home in the Universe." "That's it." "Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you probed? You're sure they won't remember?" "They'll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we're just a dream to them." "A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat's dream." "And we marked the entire sector unoccupied." "Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed."

By: Samsonov14

Samsonov14 — Mon, 03 Feb 2003 07:36:19 -0800

Do they really expect us to swallow this tripe?

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:38:48 -0800

It's funny that this ruse - The Beef industry says teenagers aren't getting enough Beef - is so transparent and laughable to so many of us (here on MeFi, anyway) who don't blink an eye when it's phrased as The Milk industry says teenagers aren't getting enough Calcium.

By: tankboy

tankboy — Mon, 03 Feb 2003 18:39:21 -0800

Just for the record, saying "Teen girls not getting enough meat" should never ever be said outloud at work.