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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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platedlizard
2011-04-16 07:02 pm UTC (link)

Do you like looking at pictures of meat? How about a juicy beef burger, covered in egg mayonnaise with cow fat dripping off? Perhaps some soft, meaty chunks of chicken breast in chicken stock and cream? What about a pork sausage, oozing in pig fat, fresh from the slaughterhouse? OK, let’s tone it down a little. Perhaps you like to look at egg mayonnaise potato salad, made with eggs from those poor battery hens that are dead basically from the moment they are born. How about creamy mac and cheese made with real cow’s milk, pulled painfully from their sore and tender udders, infused with antibiotics, pain and anguish?

I got to admit, whenever vegans writes stuff like this, it just makes me hungry.

/off to eat some KFC before I go torture a dragon

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	schrodingerscat 2011-04-16 08:27 pm UTC (link)
	an infusion of pain and anguish makes everything better. But yeah, those first couple sentences made me pretty hungry too. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	platedlizard 2011-04-16 09:17 pm UTC (link)
	My sister didn't like foi gras until after she learned how it was made and how to use it. Ah, chef school. Never change. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	emily_goddess 2011-04-16 11:01 pm UTC (link)
	I LOL'd when I followed the OP's "non-apology" link and this was the second comment: I used to be vegan, but after seeing those pics of yours I started eating flesh again because it looked so tasty :( (Reply to this)(Parent)

	visp 2011-04-17 05:01 am UTC (link)
	infused with antibiotics, pain and anguish? But it's the pain and anguish that give it that special flavor! It's like MSG squared! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	platedlizard 2011-04-17 06:20 am UTC (link)
	Pain, anguish, MSG, and meatglue are the basis of my diet! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	librarianmouse 2011-04-17 03:00 pm UTC (link)
	The four food groups! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	schrodingerscat 2011-04-17 07:13 pm UTC (link)
	doesn't everyone keep a little powdered infusion of pain and anguish to sprinkle over their vegetables? Just in case the carrots didn't scream enough when you yanked them up by their roots. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	visp 2011-04-17 08:16 pm UTC (link)
	It's three holes for the salt shaker, two for the pepper, and five for the pain 'n anguish mix. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	brennalarose 2011-04-17 05:53 pm UTC (link)
	But... But... If you don't milk cows, they get hurt! I'm a city girl and I know that (I think)! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

the__ivorytower
2011-04-17 06:24 pm UTC (link)

Sorta:

Basically, once a cow gets pregnant and it produces milk, you can keep it going by never weaning the cow off. If you miss milking it, it *does* hurt (and so does weaning, I imagine).

It's just... I don't know, I grew up on a farm, and while it was small production (just for personal use), we were always good to our animals. THEY were the ones that were really annoying at times. *vague mutterings about escape-cows*

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tachikoma01
2011-04-19 01:13 am UTC (link)

And escape-cows can't ever get out and go somewhere that DOESN'T get them in trouble.

I like to describe farm animals in terms of the internet. Horses be trollin', cows are the guy who keeps asking questions that were answered three posts above his, pigs are off-topic all the time, sheep like picking a fight and then running away, and the chickens talk gossip about the royal wedding all day.

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	the__ivorytower 2011-04-19 01:14 am UTC (link)
	Goats like being edgy. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2011-04-19 04:41 pm UTC (link)
	[You like this] (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cmattg 2011-04-22 04:27 am UTC (link)
	The monkeys stand for honesty, giraffes are insincere, and the elephants are kindly but they're dumb. Orangutans are skeptical of changes in their cages, and the zookeeper is very fond of rum. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ecchaniz0r 2011-04-19 06:09 am UTC (link)
	My OMGBFF's dad grew up on a farm. They had a freaking kamikaze attack rooster. That is all. And - dang, does every farm have escape-cows? XD; They had escape-cows and the laziest bull ever. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	libelle 2011-04-22 07:53 pm UTC (link)
	Back when my mother was a kid, her aunts used to keep chickens and a rooster. The latter was the reason why you always had to take a broom or a sturdy stick with you to the outhouse. If he didn't attack you on the way to it, he would be waiting for you when you came back. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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