By: BrookHOWEVER, Superbowl Sunday banning this ad as 'too steamy' is an absolute joke to me. There will be many worse advertisements that viewers will take in that day, not to mention on any given day....shall I remind people of the 'axe' ads that leave you wondering if that is some ridiculous joke, until you realize that, no--the extent of their intellect in advertising is embryonic level at best. But I do have veggie love and get the bigger picture...
PETA's ad -- which features a bevy of beauties who are powerless to resist the temptation of veggie love -- was deemed too hot for the Super Bowl. NBC rejected the video because of concerns over "rubbing pelvic region with pumpkin," a woman "screwing herself with broccoli," and more!
Check out the video:
Actually....it's sort of weird, i'm having a strangely overwhelming desire to go make a veggie stew in my negligee after seeing the ad....
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Yeah, that was pretty hot. No wonder they rejected it...
It did make me hungry for some nice vegetables though.
I guess gay men and straight women aren't part of PETA's target audience. That seems rather short sighted.
In fact, why were there no men at all?
Are men really going to decide to be vegetarian simply for the sex appeal? In my mind, this ad was targeting the low-intelligence men who equate football, and meat with 'manliness'. I think PETA would do better to go with the tried and true method of scare tactics.
Seriously. If it can work for Bush, it will work for anyone. All they have to do is have a simple ad saying "Eating meat can lead to erectile dysfunction and death".
"Studies show that vegetarians have better sex".
...seriously? What is better, anyway? Can't the low-IQ man simply say: "I'm happy with my sex life, thanks."?
I'm with you, Brook.
It may be steamy, but I doubt it's effective, and it certainly panders to a chauvinistic male audience.
I think an unfortunately large portion of PETA's ads targeet this audience and I wholeheartedly agree with the criticisms. I think their campaign where celebrities pose nude to protest animal cruelty is great, but seems to be heavily biased toward female celebrities. Sure, Dennis Rodman posed for them, but I don't know of others. If they were not exploiting the common view of women as sex objects, then they would have a much more equitable mix of women and men posing nude.
I don't think it's that big of a problem, though, because it doesn't really reinforce the misogynistic attitudes, it just exploits them. I expect that once we change the mindset of the chauvinist male completely, it will have disappeared.
"...it doesn't really reinforce the misogynistic attitudes, it just exploits it." Exactly! Perfect summation! It's the only way some of the people watching the Superbowl would EVER watch a PETA ad. Not that I expect it to have a large sway over the audience.
In Chiropractic Philosophy 101 we learn that "the more educated a person is, the more likely they are to seek chiropractic care." I would say the same would be true for vegetarianism. Maybe we should be spending big $ appealing to intellectuals. Wait, they are... they are paying research groups to find out how to create the best lab-grown animal flesh, so we can feed people that instead. PETA is freakishly crafty at this ;)
So, everyone is always asking me why "Vegetarianism is for Lovers" like my bumper sticker says. I may have to refer them to that research! Can I get my hands on it? :)
Oops! Wrong username! That was me, Jennet. I'm sure my vegetarian husband doesn't mind I stole his identity for a moment.
Haha..you identity theft! I am of course, still rocking the "Vegetarianism is for Lovers" bumper sticker...and have recently added one Echo gave to me: Feminism Spoken Here...with the power fist behind it.
I've heard you talk about this animal flesh, but wanna know more about it!
yeah, and while we are in the same vein, where is this phantom bumper sticker: vegetarians taste better
I've got your "Vegetarians Taste Better" bumper sticker right here.
...and your "Vegetarians Taste Better" Tee Shirt right here.
Here's a link to information about the 'animal flesh'. It's not proper to call it 'animal flesh' because it's not really associated with animals. The amount of bioengineering which will be required to create meat in vitro is enormous and we're probably a decade or more away from that technology.
It would probably be much easier to simply genetically modify a real chicken so that it has no nervous system. That's really the difference between a plant and an animal anyway, so cruel treatment wouldn't be an issue. PETA wouldn't go for that, of course. Vegans don't eat honey because of the 'cruel treatment' of honeybees, who don't have much of a nervous system either.
Love your vegetables, but don't LUVVV your vegetables! Seems like more advertising for the sake of advertising, but the results would really surprise you.
I don't think growing meat is that far off, I mean its proteins and we are now synthesizing proteins. Granted, its synthetic genomics and its focus is on energy and pharmaceuticals..this would be synthesizing meat, not culturing animal flesh. But my point is that you can regress cells and turn one into another, and eventually yeah, we'll be growing meat.
Its interesting to think of the genetically modified, nervous systemless chicken, its sort of the opposite of the true story of Mike the headless chicken...who lived for 18 months as "The Headless Wonder Chicken".
You can't really define what separates plant and animal. When you eat a mushroom, you are eating both plant and animal in a sense.
yesterday I saw a heart stripped down to pure cartilage. It was "sprayed" with heart cells from rats. The cells self organized and the heart began beating. Also, lets not forget that there are some organisms that actually discard their nervous system all on their own after reproducing...like...don't need that anymore...haha
Speaking of reproduction, animals and plants make "love" to each other, using organs evolved for just such a purpose. All flowers and blossoms are reproductive organs. 10,000 species of plants are pollinated by insects. Its basically about bartering food for fertilization evolved symbiotically and elaborately over millions of years.
A few plants are actually evolving animal-like sexual behavior. Like the Barberry, whose stamens erect themselves when stimulated by touching or stroking. Or the mimosa who actually has a motor organ, the pulvinus, which stiffens the plant when the cells become gorged with a fluid corresponding to blood. There's even some cases where all a flower's stamens rise to the occasion together when a bee shows up. Some flowers actually go into heat. The Voodoo Lily increases up to 27 degrees when flies or beetles show up.
There are animals like barnacles and sponges that live rooted like plants, and there are plants probably close to 500 species that are carnivorous. And...in fact there are plants with contractile hydraulic tissues with nerve-like control systems similar to reflex arcs...which try to avoid cows by curling up in fractions of a second when touched.
Mimosas actually get tired from this responsiveness, there has even been studies on getting them drunk...you know they're happy drunks than they get wasted!
There is even predatory plants. The dodder is almost like a snake. It sprouts and then tendril- like stems sort of sniff out prey, when it finds it, by sensing shade, it grows towards it, it then "bites" onto the tree, for sap, and coils around it, unrooting itself entirely....and it has scales instead of twigs or leaves!
If you ever watch time lapse photography it will become clear that plants have very animal-like behavior.
I have seen some really weird studies on the effects and measurements of radio waves and electric currents on plants..sort of like plant EKGs...in one study the plant's readings went crazy when some shrimp were dumped in boiling water.
This guy named J.C. Bose spent his life studying plant sensibilities and concluded that the pea suffers an actual death agony in the pot, while celery he rated as low strung, and didn't care if it was eaten or left to rot.
Anyway, I have never done this before, but I will actually quote the bible:
"all flesh is grass, and all goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field"......
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