Photos: Nearly naked PETA activists put a human face on eating flesh

by Charlie Smith on Aug 5, 2011 at 10:47 am
PETA's cellophane campaign tries to convey a message that when you eat meat, you're really eating a corpse.

Last summer, a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protest in Vancouver demonstrated how the human body could be divided into cuts of meat.

Because these human bodies involved two attractive young women, it generated a great deal of attention.

This week, PETA took it one step further by wrapping nearly naked women on cellophane trays.

The event took place at the corner of Commercial Drive and East Hastings Street near a local slaughterhouse.

This is how PETA described the recent protest: "The activists aim to demonstrate that all animals—including humans—are made of flesh, blood, and bone; that animals have the same five senses and range of emotions as humans do; and that when you eat meat, you are eating a corpse."

Do PETA protests with nearly naked young women make you more likely to stop eating meat?

Yes 21%
165 votes
No 76%
605 votes
Not sure 3%
27 votes
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bill jenkins
Aug 5, 2011 at 12:43 pm
tasty tasty meat
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cori
Aug 5, 2011 at 12:56 pm
why do peta protests are always sexist and a disgrace to women. I'll continue to eat meat and maybe club a baby seal on my way home.
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Rick in Richmond
Aug 5, 2011 at 1:35 pm
The best thing about protests like these is so many dirty jokes about 'eating meat'. Even better is the jokes work for straights and the gays.

This is very democratic of PETA, when you think about it.
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Tyler
Aug 5, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Wow, the comments by Bill and Cori are so articulate and well reasoned. I applaud the incredible amount of time they must have put into researching this issue and their well though comments. You two are really thinkers. You should get together and write a book or head a study. Even better teach or coach our children! You are exactly the brilliant minds our children need.
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adam g.
Aug 5, 2011 at 2:07 pm
these naked protests may have little or no effect on the avg meat eater but i admire their commitment to the cause.
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powdakilla
Aug 5, 2011 at 3:06 pm
LOL @ the sign, 'all animals have the same parts', pretty sure our brain is a little different than those of most animals. With the exception of the brain of your average member of PETA.
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Jackie Byrn
Aug 5, 2011 at 3:25 pm
An ongoing dialogue about how animal wastes affect the quality of our drinking water might be more effective than folks getting naked in the interests of going vegan.
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unknown sample
Aug 5, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Most vegetarians I have meet are sanctimonious, self righteous trust fund douchbags working non physical jobs.

They arrogantly presume their lifestyle choices and life circumstances as being correct and morally superior.

Eating some meat in your diet is part of the human condition, as is generally liking to look at young, attractive and nearly naked people.

Ironic these PETA types employ a technique relying on an aspect of human nature to decry another.
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Goldorak
Aug 5, 2011 at 4:22 pm
How about the cry of the carrot? GoMeat.org sarc/off
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Rhonda
Aug 5, 2011 at 4:58 pm
There is not one single reason why humans should eat meat. It has been proven repeatedly to be harmful to human health. It is the number one contributor to green house gas emissions and global warming, surpassing all the worlds transportation methods. It is a massive waste of crops due to the massive amount fed to fatten up animals when it could instead be used to feed humans. On top of all of that we are mutilating and killing living, breathing, feeling sentient beings for no good reason than we enjoy how they taste. Just another clue as to human insanity.
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Lethale
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Freedom of choice. If you choose to be vegetarian, vegan, catholic, atheist, republican, etc.. that is your decision and yours ALONE. I beseech you, shut your yap and quit wronging those who don't agree with your choices/lifestyle. The world has enough fundamentalists claiming their way is the right way in a feeble attempt to make themselves feel better than. Where do they think the oil comes from that lubricates the machines that make the clothes on their back?

If you want to be a true vegan, take off all of your clothes, leave all your worldly belongings behind, and go sit in the middle of a field and shut the f__k up!

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njk
Aug 5, 2011 at 6:42 pm
enjoying the taste is a good reason.

nomnomnom.

Apparently my salmon is taking up your arable land. Sorry

#pescatarian
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GOT
Aug 5, 2011 at 7:28 pm
Let's get back to eating bugs, berries and dirt...ah, those were the days. No jobs, just lay around the cave all day, watching a bunch of sabre tooth tigers take down a mammoth outside, no replay of course but you can't have everything...hmmm, they sure do look like they're enjoying that mammoth! Can't fathom it myself. Bunch of savage beasts...oh well, time to shake the fleas outta the old leaf pile and call 'er a day....zzzz
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luna29
Aug 5, 2011 at 9:59 pm
And I hope someone clubs "cori" - I'm sure the English language won't cry over that one...
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You
Aug 6, 2011 at 9:39 am
I'm vegan and I hate PETA. They're the kind of people giving us all a bad name. I hate the "meat is murder" campaign---there are so many other, more easily relatable reasons to eat less meat. PETA isn't going to be able to make a successful appeal to people from moral grounds on this issue, but that's all they ever seem to try to do.

I cut out meat when I started running seriously. It just takes a little longer to digest, which just didn't work for my schedule.
That said, I like meat. I grew up eating it and probably will, from time to time, eat some for years to come. But I am 100% opposed to factory farming practices as well as these PETA boneheads and their lost cause of a campaign.
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GOT
Aug 6, 2011 at 9:33 pm
@ Lethale...'go sit in the middle of a field and shut the f__k up!'
Would you mind if they sat at the edge of the field? Aside from the distraction of naked people sitting in the middle of a field, they DO get in the way of the tractor and other machinery.
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GOT
Aug 6, 2011 at 10:18 pm
@Rhonda - OK I appreciate your point of view, but I have to ask, based on personal experience: what would be the difference in greenhouse gas emissions if everybody stopped eating meat (such as beef or pork) and started eating beans and lentils, etc.? Obviously the emissions by cattle would go down if there were fewer of them, but six billion people eating legumes? I think someone needs to do the math, but I'm willing to be convinced. Although I have to say, there's not much that's prettier than a herd of black Aberdeen Angus in a green Irish field. I'd miss that, over my bowl of peas.
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Pat Crowe
Aug 7, 2011 at 9:29 am
Wow looking at those pics makes me wanna pull a roast out of the freezer, thaw it out, bang it, then cook it and eat it.
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GOT
Aug 8, 2011 at 1:21 am
@ Pat Crowe - you're bad!!! Where you from? I smell Saskatchewan, but only because of the humour. Could be Manitoba, but we don't usually say " thaw it out". We say " thaw't" meaning 'thaw it'.
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Pat Crowe
Aug 8, 2011 at 10:02 am
@GOT, I thaw''t about your comment for a moment but I'm too busy terrorizing hippie, vegetarian, picnickers in Beacon Hill park.
Oh, I'm dating a 'pork' roast today!
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