When They Leave The Tofu Out Of The Tofurkey
Hilariously, via Jay J. Hector, a vegan magazine is illustrated with shots of meat -- with the bones Photoshopped out so they can pretend it's that edible turd with meat names stuff vegans eat.
When They Leave The Tofu Out Of The Tofurkey
Hilariously, via Jay J. Hector, a vegan magazine is illustrated with shots of meat -- with the bones Photoshopped out so they can pretend it's that edible turd with meat names stuff vegans eat.
I don't think they Veg News editors are unethical. They just don't want to admit that hiring their own photographer is not viable because there aren't enough idiots subscribers to actually pay the bills.
Jim P. at April 16, 2011 7:13 AM
I just saw that today, before I came here. Is there anything more self absorbed and pathetic than a vegan?
If a cat eats a mouse, or a trout eats a few hundred thousand mosquitoes, it's all right because that is the way of the world. But if I snack down on a bit of steer or stir fry some pig, I'm an evil exploiter of another species.
I was once chided for wearing a leather vest. I told the earnest young woman, "Well, after we killed the cow for her meat, it seemed a shame to waste her hide."
This did not get me laid.
Steve Daniels at April 16, 2011 9:05 AM
Hah, Steve.
Amy Alkon at April 16, 2011 9:37 AM
If the food in the vegan lifestyle is so good, why do they need to dress it up as fake meat?
Conan the Grammarian at April 16, 2011 9:49 AM
My only problem with vegans is when I order four special plates for them at my wedding party and they don't show up and don't call to say they're not coming, and we actually have to hunt them down to find out what happened, and it turns out they were just kinda tired and didn't feel like going out.
Not like I'm still bitter a year later or anything.
MonicaP at April 16, 2011 10:19 AM
Tofu has its place in Japanese cooking. It's good in sukiyaki. It absorbs the flavor from the meat...
Oh, we're talking about vegans. Did you ever hear of natto?
MarkD at April 16, 2011 11:46 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/04/16/when_they_leave.html#comment-2050477">comment from MarkDDid you ever hear of natto?
Apparently, it smells and tastes like the sticky stuff on the bottom of a restaurant dumpster, but has a great deal of Vitamin K2.
Amy Alkon at April 16, 2011 11:53 AM
Vegan are the world biggest hypocrites.
Who has less of an impact on the enviorment? A guy like me who raises my own beef and has chickens wandering around eating all the bug on my property?
Or the guy who runs a vegan resutrant who posions insects to keep his food vendors licence and had to import dozens of foodstuffs from the other side of the coutry, and the other side of the planet?
Also when soybean was transplanted here to grow care to wager how may animals had their habitas detroyed by an invasive species how spread was encouraged and guided by man?
Look at how much damage kudzu does, and we spend millions trying to kill it off.
Fucking morons, I'd like to see them try and be vegan and 'in tune with nature' when mother fucking meat eating interstate truckers werent gaurenteeing their food supply.
lujlp at April 16, 2011 1:11 PM
Steve:
You have heard of the vegetarians who insist their pets (dogs & cats) eat vegetarian too, haven't you?
The Former Banker at April 16, 2011 1:49 PM
Did you ever see that Mike Judge cartoon "The Goode Family"?
lujlp at April 16, 2011 1:56 PM
You have heard of the vegetarians who insist their pets (dogs & cats) eat vegetarian too, haven't you?
Insisting a cat eat a vegetarian diet is condemning it to a slow death.
I don't remember the details, but there's a certain enzyme both cats and dogs require (most animals require it).
Dogs, like humans, are omnivores and can survive on vegetables because they can make the enzyme themselves.
Cat require the meat of an animal the produces the enzyme because they cannot make it themselves.
Deny your cat this enzyme and you've basically condemned it to a slow, painful death.
Conan the Grammaran at April 16, 2011 4:38 PM
You might get away with this with the dog, but the cat, deprived of meat, will kill you in your sleep and eat your toes.
For a start.
Steve Daniels at April 16, 2011 4:45 PM
"so they can pretend it's that edible turd"
you can call vegan food edible turd all you want it will not change the fact that there are actually turds in meat and don't forget antibiotic resistant staph, e. coli and MRSA. Also 1/3 to 1/2 of all dairy cows have mastitis which means there is pus in your milk and that pus is distributed evenly at the pasteurization plant, mmm pasteurized pus.
you're right, vegan food is disgusting.
Diana at April 16, 2011 6:47 PM
news flash Di, the world is a filthy place
lujlp at April 16, 2011 8:34 PM
"you're right, vegan food is disgusting."
I imagine some of it is even grown in cow poop.
Not Sure at April 16, 2011 8:58 PM
Diana, if you're going to start that we also have to get in how much rat shit and bug legs are permissible foods according to the FDA - even vegan foods. Penut butter has the largest tolerance for rodent hair (1 per 100mg) and roach parts (30 per 100mg). Every food has gross natural contaminants in it (20 chewed kernels per pound of popcorn is the limit). 1 maggot per 250ml is allowed in orange juice. Even your vegan food is contaminated by some really gross stuff.
Lujlp is absolutely right. The world and the food we eat are filthy.
Elle at April 16, 2011 9:13 PM
the laziness and outright lack of respect from Veg News toward animals and vegans undermines everything we stand for.
I think this is the salient point from the article. It's not just that VegNews is deceiving its readers by using photos of nonvegan food, it's that the editors are so bad at it. This is different than dressing up a vegan dish with meat to make it look better and more appetizing on the page; this about being cheap and lazy. It's like a fashion magazine using a description of a YSL dress with a stock photo of a sort-of-similar-in-concept dress. Someone is going to notice. I'm not saying magazines are or should be bastions of absolute truth, but they should at least make a better effort for their readers. Were I a reader, I'd clue in some of the advertisers to the stock photo problem.
I've posted this on here before, but this is what I always think of when people talk about making pets eat vegetarian. I eat no meat at all, but my dog gets Blue Buffalo Turkey and Potato, and I occasionally cook her a small soup chicken to use for treats, since she is allergic to things with a lot of wheat.
NumberSix at April 16, 2011 9:34 PM
Lujlp, how perfectly condescending. I've worked in hygiene promotion research which involved everything from investigating public toilets in India to swabbing strangers' hands for fecal bacteria. I'm well aware that the world is filthy and it doesn't make me want to eat a microturd sandwich. But, full disclosure, I know that aside from an ability to plan for the future nonhuman animals have been evolutionarily endowed with the same pain circuitry, the same frustration at the thwarting of natural desires and the same motivation to live that I would have if crated up and raised for my meat and secretions.
The truth is that there is a lot of work coming out about how antibiotic resistant infections are spreading, MRSA killed 19,000 people in the past year, and many of these bacteria are coming from meat farming because animals are fed antibiotics to promote growth and to prophylactically prevent infection in cramped spaces and in poor conditions. There have been several articles in the mainstream news about this in the past month as well as news earlier this year that H1N1 originated on a US hog farm (likely in North Carolina), probably one in close proximity to a poultry farm.
for all of you making a "natural" argument. Chickens are often fed parts of cows and cows are routinely fed chicken litter, that is, chicken shit.
If that isn't natural I don't know what is.
Diana at April 16, 2011 9:35 PM
Well, Ive seen chickens eat their own shit, so I'd guess it is natural
And your kinda bouncing back and forth - its evil to give cows antibiotics to keep them from getting sick, while at teh same time you're arguing that animals are 'endowed' with the ability to feel pain and we should therefore help them avoid it
lujlp at April 17, 2011 5:58 AM
... and they say -vegans- are self-righteous and evangelic about it? Re-read your own posts, fuckers.
NicoleK at April 17, 2011 1:01 PM
"I've worked in hygiene promotion research which involved everything from investigating public toilets in India to swabbing strangers' hands for fecal bacteria."
I'd like to meet whoever paid to discover whether India's public toilets were less than clean. I could give them a great deal on a bridge in NYC.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at April 17, 2011 6:44 PM
Diana is making the born again Christians seem tame. Sheesh.
Diana, be careful. Falling off that high horse is REALLY going to hurt.
Off to go have a big steak now. With butter. MMMMMMMM.
Daghain at April 17, 2011 10:27 PM
And salt, which is pulled out of the dirt, by oil leaking machines
lujlp at April 18, 2011 6:17 AM
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