Jun 16 2010
HSUS Lets Its PETA Show
"Don't Eat Me," according to its Facebook page, is "an upcoming docu-film on animal rights and veganism."
The film's producer is an 18-year old Canadian woman named Nadia Masoudi. (Her father, conveniently, is a vegan who runs a video production and marketing company.) And according to a press release, she's also organizing "a world-wide event called Animal Freedom Day, which takes place on July 24th 2010."
This one is a doozy. It's pure vegan-utopia stuff, with a not-so-articulate adolescent writing style. Two of Masoudi's stated goals are:
- To globally promote refraining from eating meat, poultry, fish/seafood and animal bi-products [sic].
- To pass a [sic] legislation for all governments to halt the advertisements of raw flesh/meat appearances on any marketing medium.
Why pay any attention to what amounts to a high-school teenager's vanity project? For one thing, the multi-gajillion-dollar Humane Society of the United States is listed among Masoudi's sponsors, right alongside PETA, the Vegetarian Society, VIVA!, Compassion Over Killing, and other organizations with zero-compromise attitudes toward meat and dairy foods. (Side note: What the heck is the Comfort Inn hotel chain doing co-sponsoring this?) [Update 6/21/10 -- Comfort Inn's logo has been taken down.]
Also, HSUS has already been promoting Masoudi (and her veganize-everyone goals) to its youth audience on its "Humane Teen" website.
It's not likely that this film (or its related ad hoc veggie holiday) will amount to much. So why would HSUS publicly hitch its wagon to it? Is the group getting sloppy about hiding its affinity for the whole vegan agenda thing? Or has Wayne Pacelle finally let HSUS come out of the closet and admit that it sings from PETA's hymnal?
This should be fun to watch.
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Posted on 06/16/2010 at 11:33 AM by the HumaneWatch Team
Animal Agriculture • Dairy • Eggs • Meat • (8) CommentsComments
It is curious to me also that a supermarket chain is supporting this. If you go to their homepage you will plainly see “advertisements of raw flesh/meat appearances” on their online “marketing medium”
Who would listen to a foreign 18 year old advocating for forced vegan diets on all Americans and who wants all governments to criminalize groceries or any other sales outlets for advertising meat for sale? What’s behind this? This truly smells to me like an effort to do massive damage to the American population and our economy. Who would benefit from leaving Americans without essential to life Vitamin B 12 we obtain from meat?
“would benefit from leaving Americans without essential to life Vitamin B 12 we obtain from meat?”
Ha… Obvioulsy “humane watch” isn’t actually humane, and all american’s would benefit from eating less meat
Criticizing the dream of an 18 year old? Sad, David.
To Twilight: To cease the consumption of meat in America WILL displace jobs. Many, in fact. The irony is, many of them are held by poor, illegal immigrants. Overworked in a dangerous industry, these downtrodden people are maimed, sexually harassed and forced to take drugs (amphetamines, generally) in the workforce. I’m sure you don’t like the idea of jobs stolen from U.S. citizens? Either way, the jobs lost from windowless slaughterhouses (Why won’t they let us tour their facilities?) will be gained in vegetable production. Soy beans can cause considerably less harm to a worker than a kicking cow.
whats the point of becoming vegan im not trying to be rude or anything but i love my meat and i think that if the slaughterhouses were to be begone with the animals in those slaughterhouses would have no where to go and become over populated. animals that have been born and raised in these kind of places have NO CHANCE OF SURVIVING IN THE WILD.noone wants stinky cows because they cant afford to feed such a big stinky but kind animal. i am under eighteen and i am only speaking from my heart.
The reason why those animals are over-populated is because of humans. We breed so many of them for human consumption. Most times they are genetically impregnated, which is a cruel and inhumane practice.
Also, it is not “your” meat… that was once the living body of a creature who wanted the right to live just as much as you do. Why are you here? You don’t really know, but you’re living and wnt to survive, just like an animal. I don’t think you would like to be brutally slaughtered… but it’s funny, because humans are over-populated right now too.
genetically impregnated? Either you mean genetically altered or artificially impregnated. But neither is cruel to the animal. And what would happen to all the cows, ducks, chickens, etc that would be banned from sale? Its not like the ‘humane society’ is going to find them loving slaughter free homes. They would just be killed. So much for their ‘right’ to life
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