MetaFilter posts tagged with peta

It's THE DELICIOUS.

kliuless — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:42:29 -0800

SCIENTISTS have grown meat in the laboratory for the first time. and with a little further extrapolation...

In-Vitro Meat will be fashioned from any creature, not just domestics that were affordable to farm. Yes, ANY ANIMAL, even rare beasts like snow leopard, or Komodo Dragon. We will want to taste them all. Some researchers believe we will also be able to create IVM using the DNA of extinct beasts—obviously, "DinoBurgers" will be served at every six-year-old boy's birthday party. Humans are animals, so every hipster will try Cannibalism. Perhaps we'll just eat people we don't like, as author Iain M. Banks predicted in his short story, "The State of the Art" with diners feasting on "Stewed Idi Amin." But I imagine passionate lovers literally eating each other, growing sausages from their co-mingled tissues overnight in tabletop appliances similar to bread-making machines.

BONUS /. & electric sheep [animal 57] also see:

Slow beef - "So... by 'docile', you really mean 'mentally retarded'"
Meet Your Meat - "The turkey wasn't always so dumb"
On the domestication of human beings - "humans in the last 30, 40, or 50,000 years have been domesticating ourselves"
Benton's smoky ham and bacon - "The very rise and continuing existence of humanity is based on the widespread slaughter and extinction of other large mammals"
Is It Ethical To Engineer Delicious Cows That Feel No Pain?
In The Barn

(previously 1 2 3 4 5)

As God as my witness, I thought that polar bears could fly.

cjorgensen — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:59:17 -0800

NPR fact-check of environmental protest group Plane Stupid's latest commercial featuring polar bears falling from the sky. [Warning: graphic.] This is not the only commercial that has people upset. Enter PeTA's "Grace" which several NBC affiliates predictably refused to air during Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Veat: It's what's for lunch

mrgrimm — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:16:40 -0800

The top 10 fake-chicken sandwiches in the U.S. Fake meat is popping up more and more, but it still can be hard to find a good vegan/vegetarian sandwich that doesn't provide its protein from cheese and bread. Amy from PETA's VegCookingBlog has selected her top 10 faux-chicken sandwiches. In reverse order: 10. Chickette Sandwich - Red Dog Saloon, 1421 Colley Ave, Norfolk, VA 9. Breaded Chicken Sandwich - Vertical Diner, 2280 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 8. No Chicken Caesar Club - Foodswings, 295 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 7. Grilled Gardein Bruschetta Pomodoro Panini - VegiTerranean, 21 Furnace St, Akron, OH 6. Mock Chicken Dijon - Pizza Lucé, various locations, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN 5. Chicken Parmesan Hero - Red Bamboo, 140 W. 4th St., NYC, NY 4. Chicken Run Ranch Burger - Native Foods, southern CA 3. Bayou Chickin' Sandwich - Veggie Grill, L.A. and Irvine, CA 2. Vegan Philly Chicken Cheese Steak - Govinda's Gourmet Vegetarian, 1408 South St, Philadelphia, PA 1. Secret BBQ Chicken Sandwich - Green New American Vegetarian, 2240 N. Scottsdale Rd. #8, Tempe, AZ Red Bamboo might be my favorite vegan restaurant, but for fake meat in San Francisco, I like Golden Era, Loving Hut, and Millennium. In Louisville (KY), I like Zen Garden. The latter offers a bitching BBQ Soy Sandwich, but none of them have fake-chicken sandwiches. Got a local favorite that should make the list? What's the best fake-chicken sandwich in the world? Does anyone really care? Bonus content: Recent update on in vitro meat from Wired UK. And CNN. And Wikipedia. (previously)

Vould you like to touch my deafferented monkey?

Rhomboid — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:56:28 -0800

This week Slate featured a five part series by Daniel Engber on the treatment of live animal subjects in biomedical labs and the birth of the animal rights movement.

Kittens of the Sea

mippy — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:23:22 -0800

Fish. They're ugly and they smell. You can't find many calendars with them on, and they lose out to pandas when it comes to zoo adoption. But wait! PETA are going to save fish through canny PR. Say hello to Sea Kittens.

Who Are You?

cjorgensen — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:56:10 -0800

I am Jack's raging bile duct, but I'm not CutoutDissection.com. Nope, that distinction goes to a woman formerly know as Jennifer Thornburg. I am also not a Nugget. Some have not been kind. Maybe you want the play at home game. Previously. Previously. Previously. (you get the idea.) Warning, PETA heavy links, but MetaFilter loves PETA. google lists 12,700 results for cutoutdissection (up one after this post).

What does Chrissie Hynde really do?

joeclark — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:10:39 -0800

Chrissie Hynde: “[A] complete rock star in every sense of the word”? Nope: “I consider myself an animal activist first and my music as more of a hobby that gives me a platform to fight for animals.” Has anybody in Ohio eaten at her restaurant, Vegiterranean (Flash link)?

Stay Classy, Ingrid.

gman — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:25:49 -0800

While Greyhound pulled their own ad campaign, PETA has created a new ad comparing the Greyhound bus attack last week, outside of Winnipeg, to slaughtering animals.

Global food studies

stbalbach — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:49:19 -0800

Exposed: The great GM crops myth. A new study shows some genetically engineered crops (soy, cotton) produce less than equvilent conventional crops. Meanwhile the IAASTD - sort of the IPCC of agriculture composed of 400 experts from around the world - has concluded in a major report that GM crops are not the answer to world hunger and there must be a "paradigm shift" (IAASTD report summary). They predict global demand for food will double in the next 25-50 years, but with the current food crises, some GM crops are already less taboo, but PETA is banking on vat grown meat.

Udder Silliness

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:19:10 -0800

Milk Gone Wild! From the fine folks at PETA. Be sure to watch the video (it's possibly NSFW, definitely weird).

Can Vick's dogfighting house be repurposed?

pineapple — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:30:59 -0800

Before he went to prison for dogfighting, Michael Vick trained his pit bulls at a 4,600-sq-ft house on 15 acres in Surry, Virginia. Earlier this year, local tax rolls valued the property at $747,000, but Vick hurriedly sold the house to real estate developer Ray Todd on the cheap, to aid his mounting financial troubles. Todd had hoped to resell the house for $1M at a December auction, and dozens of rubberneckers toured the property -- to gawk at the syringes left on the ground, the twenty kennels "like prison cells", and the outbuildings where the dogs were fought. Naturally, no one was buying. Still, Todd wants to recoup his investment, so he’s turning to a conventional sale this month… and failing that, is considering building (unbelievably) a bed-and-breakfast where pets are welcome. Enter The Vick House project: a Dallas charity called Jalie’s Butterflies is hoping to raise enough money online to buy the house and convert it to a non-profit animal shelter, under guidance of the SPCA. But no good deed goes unpunished: from a post today at the Vick House blog, it appears that the charity has chosen to dissociate from PETA, removing them from their "Friends" page after after animal rescue activists opposed to PETA tactics have raised a fuss. Is this a case of “lemons into lemonade”? Or just a tempest in a teapot? And can a house where countless dogs were killed and trained to kill really become a good shelter for abused animals?

Propacrayonda

Ambrosia Voyeur — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:34:24 -0800

Coloring is fun! Engage kids and get your message across with soothing, simple style!

Print these .pdfs for the little ones in your life to color. Together, learn a little grown-up wisdom about Being a Witness in Federal Court, Disaster Preparedness, Food Safety with Thermy™, Why Elephants Cry, Biomedical Research with the Lucky Puppy, or how the United Nations is a very bad organization made up of foreign countries who do not want you to be free, with Brasco!

Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, MURDERER!!

billysumday — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:07:31 -0800

Fishing Hurts is a new website from PETA aimed at getting people to stop fishing. No one would consider doing to a dog what some so casually do to fish—trick them into impaling themselves in the mouth and pull them into an environment where they can't breathe. But the fact is—fish feel pain just as all animals do. When it comes to feelings, a child is a dog is a fish.

BULLSH*T!

crunchland — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:22:19 -0800

BULLSHIT! Penn & Teller present their rational, libertarian bent views on diverse subjects, now available for free download on Google Video ::: profanity; creationism; alien abductions; conspiracy theories; recycling; gun control; endangered species; religion; the bible; family values; the apocalypse; signs from heaven; the occult; 12-step recovery programs; exercise v. genetics; environmentalism; hypnosis; ghosts; the war on drugs; feng shui / bottled water; college; PETA; and abstinence.

Next thing you know someone will protest against foie gras.

sour cream — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 05:11:35 -0800

Hello, my name is Kentucky Friedcruelty.com.

Ballad of James and the wiener dog

troutfishing — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 10:29:04 -0800

Dobson vs. the miniature Dachshund : the musical ( subtitle : "The Will To Whip" ) OK, it's not really a musical. But it should be : in a slice 'o life piece of high camp from "Focus on the Family" head and author of numerous books on parenting, including "Dare to Discipline" and "The New Dare To Discipline", Dr. James Dobson recounts an epic battle, belt in hand, to dislodge his 12 lb Dachshund from atop a fuzzy toilet seat cover. Dobson also advocates the disciplinary beating of chidren, but not those younger than 15 months. The Dachshund has sinced passed away, ending "a fifteen-year-love affair between man and dog".

GRAAAAAAAIIIIINNNNNS

qDot — Mon, 23 May 2005 08:50:04 -0800

Hufu, the vegetarian alternative to human flesh. With a name thought up by Milla Jovovitch, you know it's gotta be good.

Who'da thunk it?

konolia — Tue, 10 May 2005 11:49:46 -0800

Peta Kills Animals

Nathalia Edenmont!

TwelveTwo — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:34:26 -0800

At first glance it would seem to be something one would find in some photoshop gallery. But then one finds out that she has been forced to justify her work, for they are pictures of freshly killed animals. Much to the dislike of some craigslistians. With the growing uproar, there is even a petition going around (though petitions like that are har dly ra re.) Is this a work of someone seeking attention through offending people? Or someone unable to use photoshop? Whatever the case, I’m sure PETA will join in. . . . Wait, it has.

I hate PETA, but they may have a point.

dr_emory — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 00:05:36 -0800

I hate PETA, but they may have a point on this one. Workers at a Pilgrim's Pride slaughterhouse have been filmed demonstrating their criminal lack of respect for living things by torturing living chickens. via Salon

Bull. It's all ass to me

troutfishing — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 07:43:32 -0800

Running of the naked bull-equivalents? (warning - NSFW, maybe - pic of naked female buttocks) Wouldn't this PETA protest, over bullfight cruelty, be more directly analogous to the "Running of the Bulls" if the naked runners were to be chased by a herd of meat eaters, on motor scooters, armed with stun guns?

El Viaje al Infierno

ed\26h — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 03:48:20 -0800

That most peculiar of spectacles the Fiesta de san Fermín (Running of the Bulls) seems to still exist and will be going ahead tomorrow. The event is held in parallel with Feria del Toro (the Bullfighting Fair); the run itself seems to be in the interests of transporting the bulls to the fair while getting them good and angry, confused, scared and weakened in the process. Being that the event is in honor of Saint Fermín, when the San Fermín church strikes 8am, the bulls are released and the runners get underway, trying to avoid them on their just under 1km trip. On arrival at the Plaza del Toro (Bullring) they are herded into corrals and later released so the crowd can watch the matadors kill them in traditional bullfighting fashion [wmv: 380k | 150k | 56k]. Of course, many people are not really so keen on this event; and it seems PETA will be holding one of their typically daft protests. Can't people just throw tomatoes at each other or something?

Pork. The other white meat.

PWA_BadBoy — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 00:24:31 -0800

The PETA sinks to a new low. This time drawing parallels between the gruesome Pickton murders and the the slaughter of pigs for meat. Many of the human remains of Pickton's victims are still being found at the Pickton pig farm. They were drugged and dragged across the room... Their struggles and cries went unanswered... They were slaughtered and their heads sawed off... Their body parts were refrigerated... Their bones were discarded.

PETA

Irontom — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:33:29 -0800

PETA plans to hand "Your Mommy Kills Animals" flyers to kids at Nutcracker performances. The fliers urge kids to "ask your mommy how many dead animals she killed to make her fur clothes" and include a color drawing of a woman plunging a large bloody knife into the belly of a rabbit.

Dumping on Clay Aiken

mathowie — Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:05:38 -0800

A great PETA ad ...for me to poop on! Amusing recent campaign featuring Triumph the Insult Dog to promote spaying/neutering that is catching heat for a subtle Clay Aiken jab.