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Each week, our friends at TreeHugger share some of their most curious and provocative posts with us. We're doing the same over on their turf. Enjoy! -- The Boingers
A poisonous cloud of endosulfan blew through the Sierra Mountains and into crucial frog habitats. What happened next?
You thought Fiji water was evil because it is shipped halfway around the world in plastic bottles. Here's another reason for it to deserve your ire.
An oldie but a goodie: our green guide to sex! (PG-13 photos are safe for work, unless you work around kids)
An iPhone app for controlling your car? It's real. Just not your car...yet.
Had a bird poop facial or Bull Semen conditioning treatment lately? What other horrors are we massaging into our heads?
You won't get fries with that. Bicycle discrimination at the drive through.
After sending skinny nude models to protest fur, PETA calls overweight women "whales" in a new ad campaign. Sounds like PETA has a body image problem. Does it need a hug?
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Fiji water evil because it's shipped halfway around the world? Good Lord - if only we held all the utterly needless crap Americans buy that's shipped halfway around the world to the same standard...
Protecting animals is cool. Discriminating against overweight people not cool.
The water is especially egregious for a couple of reasons, but yes frankly I wish more things would be tainted by that stigma.
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@4: I'm glad you're on the job blasting fatties. I'd hate to think they'd live through the rest of their lives living an abuse-free existence and without complete strangers reminding them of their physical shortcomings. What an outrageous thought!
Strangely (or not so strangely) the Onion actually has the best commentary on PETA's shenanigans:
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/advocacy_group_decries_petas?utm_source=a-section
This video invoked Poe's Law with my partner (who could only hear the audio when I was watching it).
Intellectually I know they're just looking for publicity, but PETA makes me sick.
What you see in the picture is not what happened next- that's a Leopard frog, not one of the two species mentioned in TFA. And that picture is over two years old.
Personally, I don't think the PETA ad is particularly offensive; certainly not as offensive as #4's comments.
Also, the deformities in the frog are apparently caused by a parasitic worm infection, not pesticides. While I'm all for protecting biodiversity, these sorts of representations make me cringe.
I've known more than a few fairly chubby vegetarians-- losing meat but hitting the potatoes, vegetable oils, chips, fries, and desserts like mad doesn't make for automatic health.
Double bacon cheeseburger five days a week? Not so good. A few ounces of lean meat or fish a few days a week? Pretty good idea, particularly the fish.
Whether or not you think bottled water is in general and bottled water shipped halfway around the world specifically are "evil," I'd like to think that we can at least all agree it's dumb, considering the widespread existence of indoor plumbing.
Bull semen provides the best benefits to a woman's hair when it is consumed, as in Liz Lemon's favorite off-brand Cheetos "Sabor de Soledad."
I appreciated the tip about bamboo sheets, but the rest of that blurb on green sex is silly. I don't care if I am being green or not as long as I get to do it. (Some people don't care if they ever get to do it or not as long as they are being green.)
God I hate PETA. They want something as ridiculous as Phish to change their name to "Sea Kittens" so we can save the poor wittle fishies, yet they run kill shelters.
as a naturally underweight carnivore (who has yet to meet a skinny vegetarian or vegan), i find the ad rather entertaining.
"You thought Fiji water was evil because it is shipped halfway around the world in plastic bottles."
lol, I used to work for a organic/natural food distribution centre (SunOpta) that sold a lot of Fiji water. It's certainly not surprising that they sold unethical products, considering the state of the warehouse itself - work accident cover-ups, vermin infestation, dust and mold contamination, union-busting and use of illegal immigrants and 'guest workers' to drive down wages. I think it's safe to say most of the packaged products you buy, even if they're labeled organic and healthy, are produced and/or distributed by greedy, short-sighted businessmen eager to exploit the trend towards environmentalism and healthy eating habits.
Just fyi, always, always, always rinse off your bottles, cans and food packaging before consuming/cooking time... :-S
Please, please tell me you're joking. Or, if this is true, cite your source so we can all see irony's last stand. (Shudders, weeps.)
Dear God, no, it's true! From Peta's letter:
Heh. I bet Trey et al. are still mulling that one over! Phsea Phkittens just doesn't have that ring....
...and I love the article's attempt to seem in-the-know by saying "word on Hollywood Boulevard has it...".
Anyone really in the know would know that most of working 'Hollywood' left Hollywood itself back in the '20s and '30s, and the only 'word' you're likely to find on Hollywood Boulevard today would come from the throngs of tourists who go there to see Graumann's Chinese and the Walk of Fame.
The high-end cosmetic consumers of 'Hollywood' seldom go near Hollywood itself, unless they happen to be shooting something on the lot at Paramount, the only major 'Hollywood' studio still located in Hollywood - and it's nowhere near Hollywood Boulevard.
"Not so good. A few ounces of lean meat or fish a few days a week? Pretty good idea, particularly the fish."
'Cept for the overfishing. Pretty bad idea, destroying the world's fisheries.
@#18- Well, I guess you'd just have to pick types that're not overfished, then. Sardines would probably hit the sweet spot there-- low on the food chain, high in healthy oils, breed like weeds.
I'm just amazed anyone could READ #4...
I have a set of bamboo sheets. Very soft. But also very susceptible to piling. Facial stubble will ruin a pillow case. Maybe it's just the brand I bought, I don't know. It was also made without harmful dyes or pesticides.
not just bikes, what about armoured tank discrimintation at the drive-through
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71-h9A2XvWo
"Had a bird poop facial or Bull Semen conditioning treatment lately? What other horrors are we massaging into our heads?"
Considering that most perfumes used to be made with whale bile, bull semen conditioner doesn't seem that outlandish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris
Honestly the iPhone app reporting details of one's electric car is portrayed as a luxury. Shouldn't that type of information ALREADY be somewhere in the car's dashboard?
And I'm down with protecting animals, but leave it PETA to do something like that.
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Your URL can go on your profile page, thanks.
I find it a little troubling how easily the article dismisses the claims of carbon offset. Suspicion is certainly justified, but to say that “Bottled water is a business that is fundamentally, inherently and inalterably unconscionable. No side deals to protect forests or combat global warming can offset that reality," really isn't much more than a negative gut reaction. Think of it this way: yes, bottled water is silly, and yes, the company probably isn't doing as much as it claims it is to be environmentally friendly, BUT, isn't it better to buy carbon offsets out of PR-greed than buy none at all? Isn't this something that we should at least consider before condemning the first feeble efforts to cater to a consumer preference for environmental considerations?
I know some fat and some chubby vegetarians. I eat cheese and eggs nearly every day and meat maybe a few times a week and I'm slim. If PETA really wants to start an anti-obesity campaign they shouldn't just say "vegetarian=skinny" and "carnivorous=fat" because it's not true.
PETA has never been slowed down by "but that's not factually accurate."
I've walked through several different McDonald's drivethroughs before, during hours when only the drivethrough was open. Walked through a Taco Bell drivethrough once. The employees often seem a little confused, but if there's no vehicle traffic that could lead to a hazardous situation, there really is no reason why the restaurant shouldn't take my money. I've been lucky enough to visit locations with managers who understand this.
Yes but semenancy and other forms of ritual require copious amounts of semen, don't they? And what about semen foods such as the moose semen soup that kept so many Alaska gold rush miners alive and remains a favorite in that state to this day?