Naked PETA protesters have a bone to pick

[Pompal 09.]

TORONTO - In a bid to save animals’ skin, protesters showed off some of their own Tuesday.

Nearly nude volunteers from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals were wrapped in plastic and smeared with fake blood in front of Quality Meat Packers Ltd. on Tecumseth St., near Bathurst and King Sts.
Their provocative poses were intended to mimic the meat packages in grocery aisles and butcher shops in an attempt to draw attention to the food industry’s treatment of animals.

“There’s very little difference between the meat that’s wrapped up on grocery store shelves and the human meat we have on display today,” said Natalie Fenton, meat-free for 14 years.

“As my five-year-old says, ‘I don’t eat my friends,’” volunteer Miriam Porter added.
Over two dozen protesters held up signs with slogans such as: “If Slaughterhouses Had Glass Walls...Go Vegan!” and “Meat Is Murder.” Photographers, police and passers-by crowded the street were the biggest commotion is usually caused by the rumble of transport trucks hauling hogs to the meat packing facility.

Some residents complain about the noise, smell and impact on property value of the abattoir in the heart of their residential neighbourhood, but PETA members came with one thing in mind.

“Any publicity is good publicity,” Black said. “And I think that’s the PETA mandate, drawing attention to it by any means necessary.” Some attendees arrived at the PETA point of view the long way.

“I was 310 pounds,” said a young man who identified himself as Richard. “I went vegan and I managed to lose 130 pounds with that. But I encountered many reasons why I should be vegan like animal rights, environmental reasons.”

The protest kicked of a series of similar PETA events that will see volunteers in cities across the country frozen in packaged poses of helplessness. The graphic displays will reveal themselves at specially chosen sites between July 15 and Aug. 4.

“We’d like to pick the most meaty looking steakhouses,” said PETA campaigner Emily Lavender, whose current job involves following Prime Minister Stephen Harper around in a seal costume. “People will be eating their steak while seeing this blood and flesh.”

Quality Meat Packers declined comment on the protest.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/06/21/naked-peta-protesters-have-a-bone-to-pick

 

[wintersunshine]

I love my meat. It is my choice and will continue to eat meat.

 

[Janet W]

Cooking a big T bone steak tonight

 

[MALTENG]

If we weren't meant to eat meat, then why do we have canines and incisors and stereoscopic vision? We owe our privileged existence on this Earth to carnivorism. Our big energy-hungry brains require meat, vegetarians supplement their lack of energy by pigging out on sugar.

 

[Tabitha H]

If God hadn't wanted us to eat his little creatures he wouldn't have made them so fricking tasty.

 

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I consider myself an Omnivore... JUST like nature intended!

 

[paulad23]

I used to love meat too! Until I found out all the hormones they jack our meat up with. Now I only eat fish and halal/grain-fed chicken, or occasionally very lean beef. Yes, we were meant to be carnivores - that means hunt down your own food like an animal - not treat animals like crap and mass produce them to send them off to a slaughter house.
PETA may be going a bit over board with this, but I'm with them! Maybe not so much about going vegan. And I DO LOVE their ads "I'd rather dance naked than wear fur" with Karina Smirnoff

 

[GoT MiLk?]

Well, if we're supposed to be eating only meat that we hunt down and kill ourselves, then we must need to eat it raw too. Using such high-tech fancy-pants technology such as fire turns the natural food into processed food. Fire, our first food processor. :666:

 

[Smart]

LOL

 

[Kaherine:)]

Actually, we've lost the ability to process raw foods as well as our ancestors did. The cooking/boiling of food makes it easier for us to break down the nutrients we need, leaving the body to devote more time to powering our massive brains.

As for veganism, not everyone can handle it. It depends on your metabolism, your ethnic background, your overall health. There are several emerging articles, both scientific or anecdotal, showing the horrible consequences of eating vegan. Me, I'm a total carnivore and a devout baconista.

 

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[Unicornrider]

There are some culturally vegan societies, such as Hindus, who have come up with ways of eating vegetables only and still get their proteins. But they use a lot of spices and oils which I'm sure would be anathema to western vegans.

 

[cathrl69]

Yes, which is why I mentioned ethnicites as a factor. For example: Eastern Europeans and Scandinavians retain an active gene allowing them to process milk, way after they've matured. In Celts, that gene shuts down.

 

[Rossy]

Well, I don't know about if it's just genetics. Some food preparation techniques help too. But as I said, western society vegans like to typically eat vegetables in the same way rabbits like to eat vegetables: lots of leaves like in salads. Indian vegetable curries are amazing, but I don't think western vegans would even consider eating vegetables this way.