NEWS: PETA to Michael Moore: Stop Being Such a Fattie

Thanks for keeping us up to date with this article, unfortunately, my initial reaction is that this was lame. I havent seen "Sicko" and so I cant critique it, and apparently there is no interest in this article.

Secondly, it would appear that PETA had a brainstorm session and saw an opportunity to USE this as a chance to gain some kind of attention for "the cause". - once again alienating individuals and further polarizing the public.

My favorite comment = from Calamity: "Hahahaha. Oh man. Nothing like activists out-causing each other" - seriously, boring.

Ok, let me start this off by saying, every time you process a cow, baby Jesus cries.

I admire PETA's philisophical stance on the issue for the ethical treatment of animals. I deplore their tactics. And yes, this was a blantant coattail on the large caboose of Mike Moore's movie. But, she has a point. Mike has a weight problem, whether it be by compulsion (addiction to food), medical (thyroid condition), or just plain carelessness for his well being. Either way, I wanna see Mike around for years to come cause he makes me laugh and think.

As for all the bantering and posturing about how food tastes (with or without meat involved) and whose evolved enough to make a choice to eat meat or not, its all moot. It all comes down to choice. Do you enjoy what you eat? If so, follow your bliss. The only thing I ask anyone to do is be aware of what you eat, how it was prepped or processed or produced. As a nation of consumers, not Americans, consumers, we have the power to vote with out wallets. Without being trendy, without being fake, spend some time shopping around for what you eat. If you eat meat, try to purchase the local free range meats. If you are a veg, be sure to support your local open markets. And for everyone, eat seasonally.

I won't deny I enjoy some guilty food pleasures on rare occasions, but I try to balance my eating habits with wise choices for myself and my family. Ya, I eat meat on occasion, but I kill my own animals when I hunt, I clean and dispose of the parts I won't eat by finding use for the parts (my dog enjoys those parts more than I do). I have boxes of vegitarian dishes that kick the butt of some meat dishes. But, damn bacon, eggs and blueberry pancakes tastes good on a sunday morning while camping (local butcher who purchases free range pigs grown in the county).

FYI, reducing my caloric intake of fat, of excessive meat consumption helped me lose weight. The side effect was I learned a lot about internaltional dishes and cuisines which use more veggies and only use meats for flavor and the sporadic holiday. It's all about moderation.

Just my two pennies.....

Says the woman who uses animal based insulin.

As a former vegetarian, I wholeheartedly agree with this. Nasty.

I'd take too much fiber over too much grease-soaked beef any day of the week.

The real queston is, why isn't anyone else researching what they put into their bodies? Is a few hours' research really a waste of time if it could add years to your life?

PETA just doesn't know when to shut the f*** up... I mean come on... Leave the poor fat bastard...err.... I mean... man alone.



PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals

Tofu, ehh. I'm 50/50 on that one. It can be done well and be decent but often is not worth the energy used to chew it.

There are many things that are vegetarian-friendly that are really good. Don't think this means I am vegetarian, I prefer to keep a balanced diet of all things from meats to fruits to psuedo-foods every now and then, but when I make many meals such as tacos I throw in some taco flavored TVPTVP so that I get a little more balance out of it than just some meat in a thin bread.

Anyways, back on topic. PETA has some strong opinions, and I think the intentions started int he right place, but I think this whole machine has evolved into a bunch of radical kooks at the head while doing more brainwashing than informing. I'll pull out my PETA links later but I'm feeling too lazy to click 4 more buttons right now

I love how someone always to bring "Jesus" into any discussion.

Props for you are both clever and original.

Wow, I am speechless. For one, you obviously didn't do very well in the analogies section of your SATs. What I was trying to get @was that, IMO, PETA does for vegetarianism what Fundamentalist Christians do for religion...fuck it up and give the rest of their ilk a bad name.

Second, when you're going to make a sarcastic little personal attack, why don't you check your grammar first.

Despite your grade-school typing skills, you get a Gold Star next to your name on the Good Deeds board for helping me laugh my ass off. Go you!

-TM

Cafe Gratitude on 20th and Harrison. Gritty, barely edible yet bland salad in the shape of a small square of lasagna. $12.

I mean, I like some veggie stuff here and there too, but don't pretend that some of it isn't nasty. It is. I assure you.

After 17 years, wouldn't meat pretty much be poisonous to you anyway?

You could work at it a hundred years and not make more banal a post.

A good friend of mine is half blind from multiple sclerosis. He says tofu makes him see. Go tofu!

This isn't addressed at you either, but I find often people get paranoid about what vegetarians are trying to tell them.
Telling a non-veggie that a sausage is a dead pig is neither inaccurate or insensitive.
It's a dead pig. It's a fact. That is all.
Politely refusing a hamburger when offered is not a 'I'm greater than thou' statement, it's just a choice.
We're all omnivores and we all have a choice to eat meat or not.
And we're all intellegent too so we can be mindful of what it is we're eating without either ramming ethics down somebody's throat or shying away when somebody points out where meat comes from.

I feel the same about militant vegans- I'm not a vegan, I drink milk and I don't see a problem with it as long as I'm mindful of where it comes from.
But of course, like vegetarians, most vegans aren't militant.
And I've never really got fake meat... it tastes as good as meat but there are millions of veggie dishes which don't need to pretend.

A pretty good way to attract some attention to yourself while the movie is being watched... But I'm still eating animals and not being overweight so...

I love my "tortured dead animal parts," they tastes to scrum-diddly-umptious.

Michael Moore has urged more reform and change in the public mind than PETA ever will. Fuck them for saying this.

I always like to point out that meat is also a global warming issue. Al Gore is a hypocrite here as well.

I figgered I warn't smart enough to be a healthy vegetarian. At least I know I'm not alone.

False. I'm a bacon lover and we're having tofu tonight and it's amazing. Gotta have it prepared well though. It takes on the flavor of whatever you cook it in, so if it tastes yucko, you have only the cook to blame.

On topic, PETA goes overboard a lot (most obvious statement ever, I know). And this is no exception, but the connection between eating animal products and cancer and other serious health maladies is undeniable. See Diet for a New America.