Porno For PETA

Peta is at again.

Some of you may remember the billboard ad featuring an obese women with the slogan "Save the Whales, Lose Blubber, Go Vegetarian."

I get it, I do. I'm not into torturing, testing, tormenting or any other harmful act towards animals. We are a meat eating culture probably to our determent and definitely to our chagrin of the vegans and veterinarians of the world.

In a somewhat strange turn of events PETA has announced their intentions to debut a pornographic website that they hope will promote veganism by mixing porno with images of animals suffering. Now, call me old fashion but I prefer the old nudity to protest wearing fur as opposed to the new tactic of treating women like the pieces of meat that they are trying to garner support for. Sure, cows don't get to choose to be displayed like this but I don't see why Pamela Anderson choosing to pose likethis has anything to say about why we shouldn't eat the cow. Obviously I understand the point is to remind carnivores that animals aren't entirely made of meat, but what about women being more than meat? PETA is putting animals and women next to each other and saying that animals are the ones that should be treated better.

Shock value may be a valuable selling point and it's true that nothing sells like sex. Given the fact that the internet is filled with every and any type of fetish pornography you can think of (and some you can't), what does PETA hope to accomplish with images that they themselves admit is more cuddly porn than anything already available on the internet. Let's hear from the associate director of campaigns for PETA- "The site, she said, will have nudity and "sexually suggestive content" but not hard-core porn: "A lot of people distinguish between erotica and pornography, and this will be erotica."

I'm not arguing against women having the right to use their bodies as a form of protest or to choose to participate in pornography. If and when women get to choose to engage in either activity more power to her. I am saying that PETA's campaign is dumb. It's dumb because it further marginalizes the group as a bunch of wing nuts who aren't all there. It further alienates supporters who otherwise agree with the cause but can't get on the porno for animal rights wagon.

So, holier than thou veganism, misogyny, mutilated animals and SOFT-CORE porn?

Great idea. Just super. I'm sure the next generation of young animal loving feminist vegans are going to be really inspired by this campaign.

I'm going to go get a cheeseburger, kick a puppy and watch some hard-core porn.