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hi guys, thanks for your encouraging words on my last post =) you're right - we can't beat ourselves up for mistakes; the most important thing is the intention to do good and live a vegan lifestyle, because we truly want to and believe i in these values. thanks again ( Read more... )

( Cut for rantyness and swearing )

Ok I don’t post here allot (more of a wallflower). However I have been vegan for 2 years now and have got most of my family and friends liking tofu, soy milk, understanding my beliefs and even loving seitan. Then PETA goes and does sh*t like this and now my older family members in their 70's think I am into some crazy group of extremist. Why PETA ( Read more... )

From:
http://www.backpacker.com/blogs/717

( NBC Knocks Racy PETA Ad Out of Super Bowl Lineup )

Ok, I am not necessarily for or against PETA. I think they do good and bad things. BUT, I have always wondered about these quotes from petakillsanimals.com and if they had any truth. Well at least two of them were taken out of context. Observe quote from wikipedia on Ingrid Newkirk below:

Ingrid Newkirk: "I went to the front office all the time, and ( Read more... )

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oh, celebrity intelligence...

maybe i'm behind on this, but i guess someone in paris dumped a bunch of flour on lindsay lohan for wearing fur in a night club. well i just saw a link to this and HAD to check it out: some friend of linsay lohan i've never heard of (samantha ronson) responds in her myspace celebrity blog

( quality celebrity intelligence ensues... )

just out of curiosity, how do you guys feel about PETA?

i've always considered them good, but i've heard otherwise.
would just like some opinion.

~thanks.

so peta has an interview up on feministing talking about their exploitation of women.

no, ingrid, no. no ones being anti-feminist in saying these women need to cover up just because they're scantily clad women.
it's sexist because YOU only show semi-clad women and your choice in the women you choose to show. and then you turn around and say, "well ( Read more... )