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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 1 2007 4:00 PM

"Vegansexuals" Say No to Hot Beef Injection

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Tags: Vegansexual, Hot Beef Injection, Animal Carcasses, New Zealand

A group of New Zealand vegans are taking their dietary choices to bed. In a brand-spanking new phenomenon being called "vegansexuality," some animal-friendly Kiwis are choosing "not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals."

One vegan respondent from Christchurch said: "I believe we are what we consume, so I really struggle with bodily fluids, especially sexually."

Another Christchurch vegan said she found non-vegans attractive, but would not want to be physically close to them.

"I would not want to be intimate with someone whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance," she said.

Okay, hang on just a minute, here. I'm a strict vegetariana vegan, for all intents and purposes (any animal products that make their way into my diet do so accidentally, at this point), and while I'm not too keen on swapping saliva with my boyfriend just after he's eaten a big, juicy burger, I find this vegansexuality thing to be verging on the absurd. Unless these vegansexuals are engaging in some kind of cannibalistic, Praying Mantis-inspired sex, I don't really see what the problem is. You're not eating your partner, are you? You're not wearing a jacket or a pair of shoes made out of your partner, right?

The revelation of this new little movement came through the research of Annie Potts, co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human and Animal Studies at Canterbury University.

Cruelty-Free Consumption in New Zealand: A National Report on the Perspectives and Experiences of Vegetarians and other Ethical Consumers asked 157 people nationwide about everything from battery chickens to sexual preferences.

Many female respondents described being attracted to people who ate meat, but said they did not want to have sex with meat-eaters because their bodies were made up of animal carcasses.

"It's a whole new thing I have not come across it before," said Potts.

Their bodies are made up of animal carcasses? That's just ridiculous. While I can understand being hesitant about romantic involvement with a meat-eater due to potential health issues like heart disease, hypertension, and colon cancer, viewing their bodies as "made up of animal carcasses" is taking it a bit far. I picture a zombie-like creature with a ham hock for a heart and chickens feet for eyes.

"When you are vegan or vegetarian, you are very aware that when people eat a meaty diet, they are kind of a graveyard for animals," she said.

"Sorry, I don't do the hot beef injection, but I do give great cabbage head."

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Cigarette

Cleveland, OH

April 2004

AUG 06, 2007 05:28 PM

StarBelliedBoy said:

Cigarette said:
I fail to see how veganism is particularly extreme. Hell, if it's the prime mode of nutrition for most of the animal kingdom, seems pretty reasonable to me.

You pretty much have to put everything you eat under a microscope and your diet is severely restricted. How is that not extreme?

As far as I know, "veganism" doesn't necessarily involve an uncompromising orthodoxy in making sure one is not consuming animal products. It doesn't have to be a total Type A behaviour. And restricting oneself to (mostly) non-animal products seems to me pretty typical of our closest genetic relatives, gorillas and chimps, so it doesn't seem odd to me at all that people would forego meat and such.

StarBelliedBoy

Philadelphia, PA

December 2003

AUG 06, 2007 05:42 PM

Cigarette said:

StarBelliedBoy said:

Cigarette said:
I fail to see how veganism is particularly extreme. Hell, if it's the prime mode of nutrition for most of the animal kingdom, seems pretty reasonable to me.

You pretty much have to put everything you eat under a microscope and your diet is severely restricted. How is that not extreme?

You know, chimps and gorillas aren't strictly herbivorous. They both eat bugs, and have been known to eat birds and small mammals. And I bet they don't have any moral qualms about it, either.

SonOfAPunk

Maple Ridge, BC

January 2006

AUG 06, 2007 05:44 PM

"When you are vegan or vegetarian, you are very aware that when people eat a meaty diet, they are kind of a graveyard for animals," she said.

Oh yeah?

"When you are a sane human omnivore, you tend not to stick your dick inside a compost-heap of dead vegetables."

dingoes8

Milwaukee, WI

March 2004

AUG 06, 2007 07:50 PM

waylonlove said:
I didn't read all of the comments, but I was really wondering...

DO VEGANS SWALLOW!!!!?????

Do they? Animal byproducts and such.

You've now asked that twice. Do you honestly think you're the only person who ever heard that joke and that you would be bringing something new to the discussion by asking it?

It comes up almost every time anyone starts talking about veganism, but fine, I'll bite. Veganism isn't about some arbitrary choice like, "Gee, I don't want any type of animal byproduct in my body, just... 'cause.". It's about prevention of cruelty and needless death. There is no cruelty or death in a good blowjob, so there's no reason a vegan can't do it however they want.

Even justifying the question with an answer makes me feel dumb because if anyone who ever asked it put two seconds' thought into it, the answer would be extremely obvious. But I really don't think that the question is ever asked in a serious manner, it's almost always as a joke to somehow ridicule veganism and make it seem stupid and hypocritical.

apesamongus

Atlanta, GA

July 2002

AUG 06, 2007 08:08 PM

Cigarette said:

StarBelliedBoy said:

Cigarette said:
I fail to see how veganism is particularly extreme. Hell, if it's the prime mode of nutrition for most of the animal kingdom, seems pretty reasonable to me.

You pretty much have to put everything you eat under a microscope and your diet is severely restricted. How is that not extreme?

As far as I know, "veganism" doesn't necessarily involve an uncompromising orthodoxy in making sure one is not consuming animal products.

Yea, I'm pretty sure that is what it means. As long as there's the concept of vegan sugar and vegan beer, then it's pretty darned uncompromising.

JunkyardAngel

San Gabriel, CA

February 2006

AUG 06, 2007 08:50 PM

SonOfAPunk said:

"When you are vegan or vegetarian, you are very aware that when people eat a meaty diet, they are kind of a graveyard for animals," she said.

Oh yeah?

"When you are a sane human omnivore, you tend not to stick your dick inside a compost-heap of dead vegetables."

Well, this whole topic is stupid, but damn, that made me laugh!!

laremyj

Anaheim, CA

February 2007

AUG 06, 2007 09:41 PM

Dogslife said:
Plants grow from soil which is made of decomposed plant and animal matter. Suck on that, vegansexuals.

But I do appreciate this point of view. I do. I appreciate it so much that I'd like its purveyors to emblazon it on their foreheads (in vegetable-based inks, naturally). You see, I'm a notanidiotsexual and it would really help me out if I could spot the non-humpable at a distance.

laremyj

Anaheim, CA

February 2007

AUG 06, 2007 09:43 PM

i agree with you Dogslife. i couldn't have said it better myself.

Westley

Vatican City

April 2004

AUG 06, 2007 11:55 PM

apesamongus said:

Cigarette said:

StarBelliedBoy said:

Cigarette said:
I fail to see how veganism is particularly extreme. Hell, if it's the prime mode of nutrition for most of the animal kingdom, seems pretty reasonable to me.

You pretty much have to put everything you eat under a microscope and your diet is severely restricted. How is that not extreme?

As far as I know, "veganism" doesn't necessarily involve an uncompromising orthodoxy in making sure one is not consuming animal products.

Yea, I'm pretty sure that is what it means. As long as there's the concept of vegan sugar and vegan beer, then it's pretty darned uncompromising.

The existence (or apparently, even just the concept) of vegan beer as an option removes the option of non-vegan beer? Next thing you know people will start thinking they can choose how their food and drinks are prepared. Low or no fat food could be just around the corner. Where are we America?

Cottser

London, ON

April 2004

AUG 07, 2007 11:55 AM

StarBelliedBoy said:

Cigarette said:
I fail to see how veganism is particularly extreme. Hell, if it's the prime mode of nutrition for most of the animal kingdom, seems pretty reasonable to me.

You pretty much have to put everything you eat under a microscope and your diet is severely restricted. How is that not extreme?

Severely restricted? Fuck that.