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The PETA XXX Porn Site

Posted by majestic on September 19, 2011

Elisabetta Canalis models for PETA

Elisabetta Canalis models for PETA

Ethical Porn? Ray Sanchez reports for Reuters:

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, no stranger to attention-grabbing campaigns featuring nude women, plans to launch a pornography website in the name of animal rights.

The nonprofit organization, whose controversial campaigns draw criticism from women’s rights groups, said it hopes to raise awareness of veganism through a mix of pornography and graphic footage of animal suffering.

“We’re hoping to reach a whole new audience of people, some of whom will be shocked by graphic images that maybe they didn’t anticipate seeing when they went to the PETA triple-X site,” said Lindsay Rajt, PETA’s associate director of campaigns.

PETA has been accused of campaigning for animal rights at the cost of exploiting women. A Facebook group, Real Women Against PETA, was launched after the organization paid for a billboard showing an obese woman with the message: “Save the Whales. Lose the Blubber. Go Vegetarian.”

Another critical Facebook group is called, “Vegans (and Vegetarians) Against PETA.”

“PETA is extremely disingenuous,” said Jennifer Pozner, executive director of the New York-based advocacy group Women In Media & News. “They have consistently used active sexism as their marketing strategy to garner attention. Their use of sexism has gotten more extreme and more degrading.

“This may be in their minds the only thing left at their disposal to lower the bar,” she said.

PETA has filed paperwork to launch its pornography site when the controversial new .xxx domain becomes active in early December…

[continues at Reuters]

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  • Josh

     I like how you treat theories as fact, it’s cute.

  • Anonymous

    Only hipsters should be eaten by wildlife

  • Anonymous

    Considering that the parts we’re talking about are coming from ancient Jews living before Zoroastrianism, Greek thought, etc, were invented, I don’t see how any of those cute theories about Christian ideology are relevant, even if they were based in some semblance of fact.

  • Anonymous

    Our definitions certainly are different, but we do know the ancient conceptions here. Conquer and control would probably be a better translation in our modern ears of וכבשה ורדו, it reads like any other ancient king’s initiative in ruling over a people, in the ancient mindset that comes along with a lot of responsibilities which are enumerated later, the next big mention being in Genesis 9 which forbids eating an animal while it was still alive, a prohibition on a common ancient practice of animal abuse.

  • Tuna Ghost

    At least I’ll die hip, baby

    …now that I think about it, it’s unlikely that your average hipster has enough meat on them to satisfy anything larger than a vole.  

  • http://twitter.com/pitbullover2011 Tammy McElman

    ya-people will be watching…animals….sex….animals…sex= beastiality!!! Geez-its that illegal in most states!! and gross!!

  • E.B. Wolf

    A good size python that was released back into the wild by a PETA follower could probably swallow one whole, and snakes don’t need to eat very much.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you, I will check them out!

  • Anonymous

    Thank you, I will check them out!

  • Anonymous

    Thank you, I will check them out!

  • Anonymous

    my own assertion is that a mostly vegetarian diet is the “best”, but like Wanooski i have issues with the vegan polemic on animal products. Specifically Honey and dairy. I don’t eat meat generally (though occasionally) and would never advocate eating it in it’s industrialised form. I think it is problematic to disregard the specific issues of agriculuture related to the growing of plant crops (caligornia strawberries in dec. florida tomatoes, gmo soy in tofu, human sewage used as organic compost, gmo anything…). I think plant-based agriculture other than permaculture , localised organic farming, and no till methods ARE in fact based in our industrialised system. I am not of the mind it is MORE destructive than meat, but neither would i say it’s impact is minimal.

  • emperorreagan

    I agree with you.  My only objection is to singling out vegetarian diets, rather than making a full argument.

    In terms of an industrialized diet, vegetarian diets are a step better but still fall far short of sustainability.  I would take this to be self-evident, because on top of the industrialized means used to grow vegetables and grain (which are consumed whether you eat meat or not, so also factor into a typical western diet), factory farmed livestock consume more factory-farmed, GMO grain than it would take to sustain a person.  Greater energy inputs + greater land use inputs = less sustainable.   

    Once you’re down to the level of localized organic farming, there’s little difference between someone choosing to only raise grains and vegetables or to keep a handful of domesticated/working animals.

  • Anonymous

    great reply. i completely agree.

  • http://meechity.blogspot.com Meech!

    This seems like the most anti-intuitive move possible. Not only can you get your human-porn fix, but they’re making a TERRIBLE visual connection here…. I can imagine that sick fans of bestiality and animal cruelty are now going to have an entry-level point into animal torture porn like crush videos. F-cking STUPID idea, Peta.

    (I don’t understand the “Peta kills animals” complaint? Any kind-hearted person can see that there are situations worse than death. Unwanted animals stagnating in stacks in no-kill shelters to go crazy or gasp in the fumes of their own waste is no way to live. As a tremendous believer in animal rights and kindness, I’d euthanize these poor creatures myself… I’d rather lethally inject a hundred-thousand animals, than know they’re wasting away with neglect, or see a single living throat slit to make someone’s sandwich.)

  • Anonymous

    We’re well past the tipping point. Oil has propped up our little system so far, and even the hardcore types who think Jesus comes down at night and refills the Oil wells think we have maybe 100 more years.

    I give it 30. Which means I’ll be 56 when WW3 breaks out over what little remains.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=561270894 David Crowe

    Is PETA still headed up by that insulin dependent diabetic harpy? (Ask: where do they get the insulin from?)

  • Tuna Ghost

    The neo-platonism merging with christianity produced gnostic cults and Hermetic stuff, it didn’t have a real impact on mainstream Christianity we see today.  

    You are having difficulty distinguishing between what the Bible as a  text says…and the popular interpretations that permeates culture at subliminal levels.

    I’ll agree that the Eve story has been used as an excuse for placing women below men, but that doesn’t support your whole “dominion over women, we think of earth as a woman, therefore dominion over the earth” argument.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_T4SPDWKBUV7EBDBDGYCTTBWNXQ Ashurbanipal

    This is a good example of going way too far.  

  • Syllvie

    I agree, to a point. The no-kill shelter that I volunteer for has only six cages for dogs (I don’t remember how many for cats, though). However, they always have someone who will become a foster parent. In other words, someone who will take the animal into their own home until the animal has their “forever home.” THAT is far more commendable than killing hundreds of animals.

    And as for the slitting of the throat of a living animal: I agree that this is cruel. However, where I come from, animals are humanely killed so that it is painless and fast.

  • http://meechity.blogspot.com Meech!

    Hi Syllvie, I’m glad you responded. It’s been an assumption of mine that most shelters don’t have a network of foster homes expansive enough to care for all of the unwanted animals if the shelter became overcrowded. That is certainly an ideal situation; it makes me happy that the shelter you’re affiliated with is so resourceful and kind. I wish I could say the same about our local no-kill shelters. The stench of their overcrowded “cat house” is almost inconceivable.

    (( Since people are always going to want sandwiches made of animals (a desire I do understand), it would be ideal to individually gas, then lethally-inject the animals: I’d think that would be the only guarantee of a painless killing. But since that’s far too expensive and time-consuming to ever be considered for mass slaughter, something like a shot to the brain, or a beheading, could conceivably be fast enough to be classified as painless. But that requires precision (and a bit of luck) on the part of the human administering the blow. ))

    Oops, I didn’t mean to get so off-topic. But I STILL think the porn idea is bunk. :P

  • Kumar Piyush00007

    can any1 send da link for peta porn website??