Human Meat????
I was looking for advertisements for AP English and I came across this photo.
Does anyone else find this totally disgusting? I find it violent and repulsive. It's sexualizing violence again. Gross.
Thoughts?
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It's a PETA ad. That's kind of the point.
They're using a naked woman to show how inhumane the meat industry is. They're treating a human like meat to remind the viewer that animals are also living creatures, and they are treated horribly.
When you look at a really nice piece of meat, you think about it as yummy without considering where it comes from or how it may have been mistreated. PETA is doing something similar with the sex appeal of the model.
I'm not a big fan of PETA. I eat meat. I do however think this particular ad is very striking.
I don't think it's sexist, particularly when you consider that PETA basically thinks animals are equal to humans, and that any woman who poses for PETA is going to be a big believer in the cause.
I once saw an ad for a butcher shop that used a naked woman, and that offended me. This, not so much.
I get what PETA is trying to do, but I really can't stand them (and I've been a strict vegetarian for 17 of my 22 years). They consistently use eroticized (naked and writhing) or dehumanizing (naked and in tiny cages) depictions of women to generate some sex appeal or shock value, and the message they basically end up saying is that it's okay for them to treat women like that, but not okay for others to treat animals that way. I'm all for animal liberation, but NOT at the expense of women's.
Soooo...
Female human meat is $785... does that make male human meat $1000?
Fer pete's sake. The sexy vegetables are one thing, but I'm sure that possibly turning people on with a slightly gory naked woman is missing the point.
Showing scores of people, whole families (children=veal), in blister packs would have been horrifying. Showing clearly human body parts cut and packaged like meat would have really sent a message. Heck, if they wanted to use sex, they could brought in sexual exploitation, tying it in with the mass breeding of factory animals and how cows have to constantly give birth to provide milk.
That price tag is all wrong. An absurdly low price would have also hit home (the price of cheap meat is pretty horrifying when you think about it).
This? It's morbid, but lots of people are turned on by a little gore and bondage.
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