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VegNews pisses off vegans everywhere
Thanks to a mouse at wank_report for this!

VegNews is "an award-winning vegan magazine and website packed with recipes, travel, news, food, reviews, and so much more."

"So much more" apparently means stock photos of meat used to illustrate vegan recipes. Comments are posted, comments are deleted, and users are banned when they point out that using photos of meat (some of them poorly photoshopped to remove bones) seems contrary to the tenets of the magazine.

“Thank you for your interest in VegNews. However, your inappropriate and mean-spirited commenting has violated the policy of VegNews, and we have and will continue to remove any future comments. Please know that we welcome constructive criticism from all viewpoints, and rarely unpublish comments from readers. Should you have any constructive feedback, feel free to email me directly. I’d love to hear from you.”

People are extremely not happy. (But their wanking is done in the most non-violent, humane way possible.)

VegNews posts a non-apology. Surprise, surprise, it doesn't go over well.

(Gothamist's closing line about this debacle is priceless: "Should VegNews change its name to CarnNews, was their apology enough, or is this all just much tofu about nothing?")

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	visp 2011-04-16 01:41 am UTC (link)
	It's the sorta thing where it'd be funny on the internet when bitching over a Draco pairing. "I just said it for dramatic effect! I didn't mean it as fact." When someone in the government says it, a wallop with something heavy, followed by never ever being re-elected is in order. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

puipui
2011-04-16 07:16 am UTC (link)

Thankfully, he's retiring at the end of his term, but he's from Arizona so I have this horrible fear that someone even more conservative is going to replace him. *worries*

On the comedy side, though, I have to say that I loved the CNN guy's reaction when he read the statement, because you can totally tell that only his professional integrity was stopping him from following it with "Can you even fucking believe this shit?" And the Twitter meme has been brilliant; Colbert's have been genius, of course, but I think my favorite so far has been the non-Colbert "Jon Kyl throws babies at the elderly."

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