Sexy Chicken

[zona5101]

The power of photography to spur emotion...

(from yahoo news and NYT)


The "pin-up" style photo of a raw chicken lounging seductively ran in Wednesday's food section of the New York Times along with a story on the appeal of crispy, savory chicken skin. Now the animal cruelty prevention organization is aiming their laser-beam target at the old gray lady.

"When I saw it I just couldn't believe that an editor of The New York Times would find it acceptable," PETA's founder and president Ingrid Newkirk told The Atlantic Wire. "It's downright offensive, not just to people who care about animals but almost to everyone. It's a plucked, beheaded, young chicken in a young pose," she said.

Tina Loit, the Times photo editor who commissioned the shoot didn't see it that way. "That chicken had attitude," she said of the model, who was propped into a come-hither position with the help of weights and wire.

The image was intended as a humorous, eye-catching approach to your standard food fetish art. But PETA's Newkirk is calling it necrophilia.

Maybe he's mad that the Times stole a signature PETA move. For years, their print and commercial campaigns have relied on sex, particularly naked women, to attract media attention. Sex has become so synonymous with PETA, they're launching a pornography site linked, inexplicably, to their animal rights message. So what's so bad about a lounging chicken?

If anything, PETA should be thanking the Times. After staring long enough at the photo of this goose-pimpled, cross-legged, headless lady-harlot, I may never eat another chicken again.

source: Is this chicken too sexy? PETA thinks so. - Food on Shine

[BigFuzzy]

wow.. seriously PETA.. get over it.
As much as I despise animal cruelty and at times wonder why I eat meat, bitching about this is...really? C'mon.

I find it funny and effective and appropriate for what they were writing about.

"It's downright offensive, not just to people who care about animals but almost to everyone. "
Again, get over yourselves PETA you do not speak for "almost everyone"!

[SwissJon]

WTF?????

It's a dead chicken. It was killed for food. How's it then "cruel" to pose it in that way? Nobody complains when it's posed in a dish with vegetables..

I'm not going to comment about the way that live chickens are kept and slaughtered, but once it's dead, there's NO WAY that putting it in one pose compared to another is cruel.. It's DEAD FFS... Necrophillia my arse. If you want Necrophilia, roast it in an oven and serve it to me with some gravy, then I'll tell you I love it...

Some people just need something to cause trouble over.

[andyw]

That is brilliant - wish I had thought of that as a shot.

PETA - bunch of sad prats - they really need to get over themselves.

[Hill Country Hack]

I find that a very appropriate and imaginative use of the subject to get the intended point across. I wish I had half of the ability to come up with a pose like that.

PETA- I won't even begin on this.

[zona5101]

Originally Posted by BigFuzzy

... I eat meat...

DUDE! You admit it - you have an oral fascination with dead chickens!!!
You're obviously into necrophilia! You know you want to stick your rooster in that dead headless chicken you sick meat eater! You know your pork tender loins are aching for some of dat sweet white meat!

/sillyextremecrazyrant off

jeez o pete.

[Biomech]

I think the Hindu's have got it right. Worship cows..

... milk, steak, beef, cheese, bacon .. ok not bacon, but if they did, they would be on to a winner

[mosgood]

I thought the photos were clever & well done! Wish I'd have thought of it!

PETA needs to get over it. Lots of people eat chicken. Chicken is good eats!

[BuddhaPi]

Originally Posted by zona5101

DUDE! You admit it - you have an oral fascination with dead chickens!!!
You're obviously into necrophilia! You know you want to stick your rooster in that dead headless chicken you sick meat eater! You know your pork tender loins are aching for some of dat sweet white meat!

/sillyextremecrazyrant off

jeez o pete.

well it is one hot chick!

[NathanFranke]

My father in law is pretty wise. I've saved a quote of his:

"How many people do you know who are allergic to soy, or to legumes, to fish, to dairy, to all that other stuff? And how many people do you know who are allergic to steak?"

Sums it up rather nicely, I think.

As for PETA, the fact that they're putting up a porn site speaks volumes. Not even they can take themselves seriously anymore.