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Vegan Website Uses Altered Pics of Meat Dishes
Bayoudegradeable writes "It seems that Photoshop skills that not-so-cleverly hide the bones of a rack of ribs are not enough to change meat into acceptable vegan dishes. The NYTimes reports that readers of VegNews are horrified to learn that images used to portray vegetarian images are none other than meat and dairy images manipulated to hide their animal origins. One commenter noted, 'vegan food must turn out so unappetizing that even the leading vegan magazine will not show legitimate photos of it.'"
Is it the notion of "Angry Vegans" or is it the fact that meatless food is apparently so unappetizing that they have to edit images of meat to make it look tasty.
Vegetarians bug me (but not as much as humanitarians). We are animals and our natural diet consists of both meat and vegetables. I used to say "if I had to kill for my meat, I would probably go vegetarian" but I don't any longer -- I can definitely handle killing for my meat. It's just not so bad if you do it right. When I was a kid, I learned to clean fish and after watching a pig get butchered using bamboo knives, it's simply not all that different to me now. The actual act of "killing" isn't as hard as the butchering anyway and when de-boning chicken, (something I have gotten pretty good at) it's not so hard to imagine it were another species of animal.
I think it's about time vegans stop harming their bodies and resisting their animal desires. Meat is good. It just is.
I was in a health food store a few years back which had a box on the shelf labeled "Vegetarian Turkey Tetrazzini". Uh, it can either be vegetarian, or it can be turkey, but it can't be both!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Though wouldn't it be more appetizing if grocers started using Photoshop to enhance images of their produce... making the vegetables appear more meat-like?
It's a shame that VegNews took the lazy way out and decided to use non-vegan images of food. Eating healthy food can be enjoyable as long as you know how to cook... I have had more than my fair share of some tasty-ass vegan food.
Angry at being taken in by the images, one reader commented on the magazine’s Web site how awful it felt “to have craved any of the foods featured here, because now I feel I was craving animals.”
Yes, meat is murder, tasty, tasty murder!
Two of my imaginary friends reproduced once
In an interview, Joseph Connelly, VegNews’s publisher, apologized for using nonvegan images and said the practice would be discontinued. An earlier statement by the magazine acknowledged using stock images of meat and dairy but said it was necessary for budgetary reasons and would continue.
They can't afford to cook and photograph vegan meals?
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