PETA's New Donor Recognition Program
ABC News is reporting this morning on a study that shows that most vegans refuse to have sex with people who are not vegans. Apparently, the vegans find meat eaters disgusting and have no desire to be intimate with people who practice something they find so repulsive.
Whatever. I have no "take" on this. Do what you want, or don't do what you don't want, with whomever you choose. Not my business.
PETA, however, feels compelled to weigh in on this issue, and they have an opinion on what people should do in their own bedrooms, but it's not necessarily what you'd expect. While PETA has, as most of us (including Michael Moore) know, long advocated that people become vegetarians, they are not really supporters of this idea that vegans only sleep with vegans.
"Sex is a very effective form of outreach and activism," said Dan Shannon, PETA spokesman, and 10-year veteran vegan. He went on to add that meat eaters could be "converted" to a vegetarian lifestyle by their sexual partners.
PETA, using any means necessary to convert people to their cause. This is one hell of an "outreach" program.
And to think that all I get from them are address labels.
Whatever. I have no "take" on this. Do what you want, or don't do what you don't want, with whomever you choose. Not my business.
PETA, however, feels compelled to weigh in on this issue, and they have an opinion on what people should do in their own bedrooms, but it's not necessarily what you'd expect. While PETA has, as most of us (including Michael Moore) know, long advocated that people become vegetarians, they are not really supporters of this idea that vegans only sleep with vegans.
"Sex is a very effective form of outreach and activism," said Dan Shannon, PETA spokesman, and 10-year veteran vegan. He went on to add that meat eaters could be "converted" to a vegetarian lifestyle by their sexual partners.
PETA, using any means necessary to convert people to their cause. This is one hell of an "outreach" program.
And to think that all I get from them are address labels.
Labels: ABC News, Michael Moore, PETA, vegans
posted by Trent Stamp at 9:36 AM
5 Comments:
I can see the headlines on Charity Navigator now:
"Donors seek to avoid acclaim and applause, but still get clap."
I don't know why this study is considered newsworthy. I mean, aren't we all more likely to have sex with someone who shares our values rather than someone who disagrees with us? Aren't liberals more likely to sleep with other liberals, Christians with other Christians, active sporty people with other people who enjoy being active?
For that very reason, I doubt Mr. Shannon's plan will get very far. Sex is an awfully appealing "carrot," but I have a hard time imagining many people being attracted enough to others whose values are so different from their own to be willing to contemplate such an intimate act with them.
Ed says:
ashley, I agree with you (except in your understanding of men and acts that you view as intimate) ... but you're thinking too much (as in, any at all).
It's newsworthy to ABC because
- it's about sex;
- it's about sex; and
- it's about people out of the mainstream ... having sex
As for PETA, this is standard "PLEASE don't think" fare. Let's see Shannon come up with some scientific studies that support what he says.
Signed affidavits. Video-taped interviews with the subject's face blocked out and their voice changed. Anything. Other than stories about how foreign agents recruit spies, that is.
If you follow the link to the story on ABC, you read that guys are more willing to overlook a woman's non-veganism than the other way around. (Except for long-term relationships, of course. Should one ever, ummm, fall in their lap.)
I'd sure like PETA's take on that.
Tucker the Siberian Husky says:
Under advice of counsel, my only comment at this time is Wooooo!
Though I am not normally one to kiss and tell, I can say this: I thought vegetarians were ridiculous until I started dating one. The girl, now my wife, converted me to vegetarianism about 10 years ago.
Of course, she has since left "the righteous cause" ... and I am still clinging to it. Somehow, I have not been able to use the same... allures.... to lure her back.
Oh, the things we do for love.
What about the meat eater with a distaste for tobacco and the vegetarian smoker? Maybe they could rub off on each other to eat a balanced diet and not smoke?
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