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Ginnifer Goodwin Talks Veganism, Wears Leather for "W"

Emily Farris — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:28:00 GMT

Ginnifer Goodwin, otherwise known as Margene the third Mormon wife on HBO's "Big Love," recently got all gussied up for the June issue of 'W.' She wanted to let everyone know she's nothing like Margene or like Gigi, her character in "He's Just Not That Into You." It was a good interview and the pictures (after the jump) in which Goodwin describes herself "as seemingly tough and hardened but always on the verge of falling apart” are gorgeous. In fact, the whole thing makes us like her more than we already do. Except we have one little problem with it. The story is supplemented with a blog post on Goodwin's recent turn to veganism. The actress says she did it for health reasons and also because of the way animals are treated at industrial farms.

So why then is she wearing...

"Versace’s leather jacket; Kiki de Montparnasse’s silk bra; Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquière’s viscose jersey briefs with attached leather belt. Yves Saint Laurent gloves; Falke hosiery."

Just wondering. We love hamburgers and leather handbags. So we can't hate on a girl. But she might piss off a few vegans with that get-up.

[W: Not So Goodwin]

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Cloris Leachman Wears Only Cabbage for Her PETA Ad

Emily Farris — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:49:00 GMT

Last year Pamela Anderson posed for a PETA ad wearing only lettuce. Not to be outdone by a rookie, 82-year-old Cloris Leachman—who we can honestly say we want to be just like when we grow up—decided she would pose for the animal rights organization wearing only cabbage.

We had no idea Leachman was a vegetarian, and honestly we have a hard time believing she's been able to kick it for so many years without a little red meat in her diet, but if so, more power to her.

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Carrie Underwood: Terrorist?

Colleen Kane — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:27:00 GMT

The wack-job organization The Center for Consumer Freedom is accusing Carrie Underwood of supporting animal-rights terrorists. And why? Because she's donating some proceeds from her new single -- a cover of Motley Crue's "Home Sweet Home" -- to that controversial organization known as... The Humane Society of the United States.

Carrie Underwood may think she is supporting puppies and kittens, but she needs to understand that she is supporting domestic terrorists instead," wrote a columnist on the conservative site MichNews.com, referring in the first part of the statement to the understandable confusion of HSUS (which does animal advocacy, outreach, education about puppy mills, etc.) and the regular old Humane Society (known for pet adoptions).

So what's this supposed connection between the HSUS and terror? In a nutshell, activists in a different organization were convicted of using terrorist tactics, and some of those activists have apparently been in the same room as a representative from the HSUS. Check out this full-page ad that ran in the New York Times last December, where the organization attempted to explain with a flow chart how, exactly, the HSUS is a terrorist organization.

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PeTA: Again With Thinking Sex Sells Unpopular Idea

Colleen Kane — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:04:00 GMT

You can guess how this one goes. PETA wanted to run an ad during the Super Bowl. It was SEXY because it showed scantily-clad women cavorting about with vegetables, licking a pumpkin suggestively, etc. The claim is "Studies Show vegetarians have better sex."

NBC refused to run the ad, saying it was too suggestive...although something tells us there will still be plenty of scantily clad women in evidence in the Super Bowl commercials. Now you and others can watch the clip anyway online without them paying the Super Bowl fee.

Here's that "too sexy for prime time" commercial.

'Veggie Love': PETA's Banned Super Bowl Ad

But it doesn't matter anyway, because:

PETA! Enough already. Does this ever work? Depends what your definition of work is. It got attention. Did anyone see this ad and decide to become vegetarian? No. Was this ad going to convert any football-loving, hot-wings-pounding Joe Sixpack if it ran anyway? No. Did anyone see this and think that PETA, and by extension, vegetarians and vegans, are a bunch of crackpots? Certainly.

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Caged Heat: PETA Takes Topless Roadshow To Louisiana

Brian Fairbanks — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:20:00 GMT

The People For Ethical Treatment of Tasty Animals has invaded Shreveport, Louisiana, and they have a message for you meat-eating hicks. No, wait, they have a message for you circus-going hicks.

In other news: circuses still exist...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals staged the event — meant to coincide with upcoming local Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Baily circus stops — at the northwest corner of Texas and Edwards streets.

“Many people were baffled to see what goes on behind the scenes at a circus,” said Virginia Fort, a PETA paid staffer. She said the dozens who stopped to look or take photos was a good turnout.

PETA made a stop Tuesday in Alexandria.

“They shouldn’t treat them bad,” said Jody Abbitt, who works downtown and took photos of protester Christina Dang, 22, of Michigan. Dang crouched in a cage below signs saying animals should be free.

Whom shall they not treat badly, Jody Abbitt? The animals or the protestors? Either way, you're right, Jody: it's terrible to see what goes on backstage-- those poor bikini-clad or topless women are caged and told to visit Louisiana.

Oh, right, naked women are supposed to represent... tigers. Or something. Seriously-- this an, um, pet issue for us as well. Check out the video:

Top photo via KFC Protest (obviously.) Video, story, and additional photo via this link.

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Sophie Monk Has A KFC Relapse

Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:41:00 GMT

Sophie Monk, former Baywatch co-star with/protege of animal rights activist Pamela Anderson, has been busted committing the worst kind of celebrity hypocrisy.

This scandal is so monumental, it would be like seeing Michael Jordan leaving a Foot Locker wearing a pair of Reebok's in 1991. Okay, maybe we're joking around, but check this out: Monk posed nude for PETA in 2007 and said:

"I think the message to KFC eaters (is that) you should think about what you're eating. If you're eating deformed animals that are being induced by hormones, you know, it can not be good for you."

Well, Miss Monk, you appear to have fallen off the wagon. What do you say to Kentucky Fried Chickenshits, those who gobble down god-awful-tasting, god-awful-for-you, god-awful-for-the-world meat from their establishment?

Anyway, when we were going back to being carnivores after brief stints as vegetarians, we never, ever have cravings for KFC. Not even now, years later, would we touch that total garbage. So why would Sophie Monk risk the wrath of a batshit crazy and super-vindictive operate like PETA, just for a drumstick?

Top photo and link via news.com.au. Second photo via the Deceiver.

Scanner Highs and Lows: In Which We Consider Prancing Around in Stripper Shoes to Survive the Recession

Emily Farris — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:01:00 GMT

It was a long, cold winter and nothing says fuck me (and tip me) like a pair of stripper shoes, right?

Highs:

We got to look at naked, bearded, burly men.

We crushed on vegetarians even though we obviously love meat.

We have so many feelings about the new 90210 we're not sure whether it goes in highs or lows.

We cyber-visited the Icelandic Penis Museum.

We looked at some old pictures of Scarlett Johansson.

We learned you really, really love Jon Stewart. And Stephen Colbert, too. Just not as much.

We briefly considered purchasing a pair of stripper shoes.

This woman is probably going to have some seriously swollen breasts—a small price to pay for saving so many lives with them.

Ellen Degeneres very politely made John McCain look like an ass (who really didn't look like he believed in what he was saying, right?)

Lows:

For the first time in our lives, the New Kids on the Block let us down. But only just a little.

Um, did Mike Huckabee encourage shooting Barack Obama?

The Father-Daughter Purity Ball really freaked us out.

Apparently Hulu.com is too pure to allow embedding at Nerve.com.

We learned that R. Kelly's sex tape was set to the tune of the Backstreet Boys and the Spice Girls.

And that he's probably going to jail.

We're glad we had no part in this date.

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Crush of the Week: Veggie Pride Paraders

Emily Farris — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:09:00 GMT

We should first make clear that aside from one misguided and carbohydrate-loaded year, we do not practice vegetarianism. It's not beyond us to lick the blood from our steak plate, or better yet, sop it up with lard-fried French fries. In fact, we won't even date vegetarians (perhaps because we know they wouldn't want to watch us happily slurping up cow's blood?)

But we've been known to have crushes on plenty of people we probably wouldn't date if given the opportunity, and the Veggie Pride Paraders are some of those people.

We also love superheroes and people who aren't afraid to talk about their poop:

After the walking carrot and pea pod at the front of the procession came a couple in banana costumes, holding hands as they marched, and then a man in a "Super Vegan" costume with a blazing "V" on his chest and a woman waving a hot pink tinfoil pig with a plaintive sign reading, "Save me."
Bringing up the rear of the march were the ecofarmers with a long tube of pink netting representing a meat-eater's colon. It had signs pointing to "butt cancer," "polyps" and a large plastic "colostomy bag" filled with plastic poop.

Because there's nothing we appreciate more (not even butt cancer or superheroes) than people who appreciate their food—whether we agree with their choice of cuisine or not— the hundreds of proud vegetarians and vegans who swarmed New York City's Meatpacking District yesterday are our crushes of the week.

[NY Daily News: Vegetables on march against meat biz]

[Video: NY Mag at Veggie Pride Parade]

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Girl Crush of the Day: Chrissie Hynde

Emily Farris — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:49:00 GMT

(Are we allowed to do that? Well, we're doing it anyway.)

And no, it's not because she's wearing a PETA shirt; everybody knows we refuse to sleep with vegetarians.*

Being an aging female rocker can't be easy [blegh, sic], but Chrissie Hynde is pulling it off. "I'm just trudging along, you know. I wash every day, I've got my own teeth, and I don't dye my hair. I must be doing something right, as I've only canceled two shows in 30 years: once when the doctor said I would have a miscarriage, and once when he told me my eardrums would explode if I did the gig," the Pretenders star, 56, tells Britain's Guardian.

Chrissie, we want to be just like you when we grow up.

[Page Six: The Way to Age]

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*Before you get your panties in an uproar, you should know we absolutely support the ethical treatment of animals, it makes them tastier. Also we spent a year as a vegetarian, so bring it!