PETA continues to promote animal welfare by exploiting women

It doesn't make them "look like insensitive assholes" - it simply proves that they ARE insensitive assholes.

PETA is, without question, an organization without moral values. It is a money-making pit down which fools happily pour their money because the fools are simply too stupid to recognize a scam when they see one.

What a shame that our legitimate concern for animal welfare can be so sickenly warped by an organization that exists to serve its own revenue goals.

where does it say that "sexual violence is totally fucking cool." in the commercial? Without going into gory details, I think you're confusing things here. The same way as you're confusing personal rants (fueled by whatever issues you may have) with journalism or useful commentary.

I may not be a big fan of every campaign PETA runs but I certainly wouldn't sign off an article with "I'm so angry I'm going to eat a baby animal" and then go on to say I'm "pro-vegan". That would be like saying I disagree with a Children's Hospital campaign so I'm going to go throw my kid off the roof...but I'm pro-children. Grow up Miranda.

I would agree that the PETA women are exploited if they say they are exploited. if they are not saying that PETA forced them to exposing themselves in this manner, then it is hardly a matter of exploitation.

Of course, third party onlookers can and obviously do feel offended, but there is no right not to be offended by things. Look away, delicate eyes!

People are ignoring the most obvious issue here. Most vegans that I know are disproportionately sickly human beings, fighting off colds and other signs of malnutrition virtually every other week. I'm not a huge admirer of Tantra, but I imagine that even their porn stars look different than the pale homunculi that I see posting the next all-new I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Made-With-Butter-Or-Eggs-Or-Anything-Else-That-Produces-Any-Flavour recipe on Facebook all the time.

Rollo, let's get serious. Take an afternoon and do some research on nutrition. Read a couple books and then get back to me about who is actually sickly. The ignorance on this page is amazing.

Tammy: Although I usually come down on the side of good old ivory-tower abstract book learning, there is something to be said for empirical evidence in this case. Sure, red meat may be rotting me out from the inside. Sure, I may die ten years before you do (let's not get into who's going to enjoy life more until then). But as far as pale and sickly goes, the health-crazed, exercise-addicted, milk-is-still-rape vegans that I know (and, yes, I know surprisingly many) don't only look less healthy in the here and now than many of my sedentary, chain-smoking, red-meat-eating boozehound friends. It virtually happens at least once a month that the latter hit the town, while one or more of the former stay home because of a new virus they've contracted or some other ailment. Science it ain't, but if PETA and the 9/11 truthers have taught us anything, it's that - unless you do the entire research yourself - science can prove pretty much anything people want it to prove. So, for once, I'll settle for the overwhelming empircal evidence here and that says loud and clear: Vegans are healthier only on paper.

I actually didn't think this ad depicted a battered women at all. To me it looked like
The fact that she was bringing him more vegetables (to fuel him?) and her face at the end made me think that their sexual relationship was consensual. Different people like to be touched in different ways and I think consensual touch and exploration is very different from domestic abuse.