From the category archives:
I can’t always define what constitutes vegan porn, but somehow the new Yogi Bear movie promotion fits:
Not sure? Take a good, long, hard look. Then again, maybe this is a better fit:
I am grateful that my son isn’t old enough to see movies yet, and that when I giggle uncontrollably, it just means we’re happy and I don’t have to explain why.
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I have two passions in my life. Probably more than two, but for right this second, there are two that matter.
The first, obviously, is “alternative” vegan outreach, wherein I try to imagine the wackiest way to spread a vegan message and then do so here on VP. One recent example was our S4 campaign, which stood for Species Sex Study Saturday, wherein every Saturday we’d take a look at how a member of the animal kingdom does it, with the hopes (slim, but hopes just the same) that we could convince meat eaters that their diet was doing more than killing animals; it was preventing orgasms.
It’s a work in progress.
The other passion, and I mean as a concept and not the man himself, is Nicolas Cage. Call it a guilty pleasure, but I love watching his movies. They’re not high art, but they’re remarkably consistent (some would say a little too consistent…)
So imagine my delight when Lindsay sent me news that Nicolas Cage picks his diet based on the sex lives of animals.
Shazam! Did my S4 campaign work? On Nicolas Cage?
Sadly, not quite. It seems Mr. Cage still eats animals, but only the ones he feels “mate in a dignified fashion.” As far as I can tell, he feels that rules out pigs (which we talked about in this S4 segment.)
Nic – can I call you Nic? – if you’re reading this, and I know you are, because I know what you Google, here’s the deal: artificial insemination isn’t dignified. Rape racks aren’t dignified. Sure, you’re a big time movie star and can probably own your own corral of animals who all breed exactly as per your specifications, which might have been the reason you got into acting in the first place, but you’re so close to some crazy-ass enlightenment here! Stop eating meat altogether and let animals do their thing without industry getting in the way.
And thanks for saving Kick Ass.
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It was kind of a… thing a little while ago when Woody Harrelson had the crew make him vegan Twinkies for the film Zombieland (his character was obsessed with them, but Woody’s vegan,) and when I read about it I was pretty impressed.
Until today.
I’m working on a Big New Project (to be announced Really Really Soon) and it involves going through a lot of the archives here. Turns out we linked to a vegan Twinkie recipe back in ‘ought six.
Now check out the comments in the first link: the prop person who made the Twinkies used that exact same recipe. I’m not saying VP had anything to do with it, but what I am saying is this: you too can eat like a vegan movie star. Get yourself one of them fancy director chairs to add to the experience. Or a casting couch. You know, whatever.
Come to think of it, “I have vegan Twinkies and a couch” might actually be an interesting pick up line. I of course am unavailable for this research (if it was a crappy line, I could try it, but I’m 100% convinced that this will work, and I am becoming a Family Man,) so I am calling forth the Vegan Singles Research Unit to give it a try and report back.
I know, after the “Want Some?” debacle, some of the VSRU are still pursuing legal action against me, but just like how I forgot about breaking the Twinkie story, people forget the internet quickly, right?
Oh, the Want Some cards? Yeah, they’re old school. Long story, but they had a hand in getting Angela into my life:
It was a different time. ”The good old days,” I think we called them. I need to dig up the PDF for these things. Vegan Singles Research Unit, assemble!
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The anti-circus crowd gained an unlikely ally this week when Jackass costar Steve-O spoke out against circus cruelty. It seems that the guy with a big tattoo of himself on his back is a graduate of Ringling Brothers’ clown college, and he says he’s haunted by memories of how the animals were treated. Of course, this is the same guy who swallowed a live goldfish and puked it back up on film, so his credibility and judgement are a bit suspect, but hey, we vegans never met a pro-animal celebrity we didn’t like, right? Link.
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Dave Noisy notes that since dropping the “-McCartney” from the end of her name, Heather Mills has been throwing herself into her work, and all kinds of interesting projects are bubbling to the surface. The latest development is a vegan fast food chain, which Mills hopes to have open sometime next year. Assuming it’s actually going to happen, for a vegan chain to work, some level of celebrity would certainly help with the initial momentum. Frankly, I’d line up for opening day at a vegan chain if it was run by just about anybody, but does Heather Mills have enough name recognition for this to be a factor with the non-vegan crowd? Link.
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There’s already been plenty of discussion of Steve Irwin’s death over the past few days, so here’s something that’s different but along a similar theme: Dave Noisy sends word of a crocodile in India who lives on a diet of boied rice. Legend has it that the croc wandered into the temple pond in the 1940s and has stayed happily vegetarian ever since. Link.
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kunsjoi reports that NBA star Yao Ming has given up shark’s fin soup as part of his campaign to promote wildlife protection in China. Ming has been working with San Francisco-based WildAid, and apparently he’s got a commercial out there somewhere in which he takes a bullet for an elephant. I must see this. Find it for me. I have no idea what else Yao Ming might be eating or using that would harm his credibility as a spokesperson for wildlife (though we know the basketballs are synthetic), nor do I know how available shark’s fin soup is for a basketball player, but it’s nice to see a celebrity actually take action beyond posing for photographs or lending his or her name to a cause. Link.
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kunsjoi reports that India has picked a candidate for the UN’s secretary general job. I don’t know if it’s possible to pick someone cooler than fan favourite Boutros-Boutros Ghali, who served from 1992-1996, and whose name, let’s face it, was just plain fun to say, but Shashi Tharoor might just have my (non-binding) vote: he’s a pure vegetarian. Link.
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PonderingWillow sent in a 3 minute video featuring Willie Nelson and friends talking about horse slaughter for human consumption. Amazingly, they’re against it. This is one of those videos where I start watching it thinking it’s pretty cool, but then it turns into one of those discussions I used to hear in the cafeteria all the time, where eating a “domesticated” animal is horribly wrong, but nobody even mentions cows and chickens and pigs, and then I go insane. I’m sure they mean well, and maybe a ban on horse slaughter will lead to more progress with the rest of the animals, but I’m not overly hopeful on this one. Link.
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Dave Noisy sent in the latest political gossip: David Miliband, Britain’s incoming Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, might have vegetarian tendencies. Farmers are… concerned. Link.
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