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Vegan Website Uses Altered Pics of Meat Dishes

Posted by samzenpus on from the this-is-not-the-food-you-are-looking-for dept.

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.'"

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  1. Not sure which is more funny! by erroneus · · Score: 2

    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.