Is it only me.....
Posted by Di on Feb 13, 2007 · Member since Nov 2006 · 1343 posts
But even if I still ate meat, I would be disgusted with the TV commercials that personalize animals. There is a deer head on the wall of one saying it would like to be a server in a Montana's restaurant. Then the moose head says there is only only problem...he, the deer is attached to the wall. So not funny. They make me sick now (always did) but how do meat eaters find them enjoyable? I thought people didn't like to personalize their food. I find all of these ads tasteless and disgusting. Do you think they actually make people want to go there? Many meat eaters I know love animals but disassociate their food from pets, wildlife etc. I just don't get it.
Di
Well, How many here ever go to someones home that has a big deer or moose head looking out at them? >:( I posted something last week about my neighbor's party that I left early from. Dead animals everywhere I looked in his home. I'm sure some of you sometimes goto a someone's house that has a dead "head" on the wall staring out at you. Could be friends or family. I just want to know who thought it would be attractive and fashionable to have a dead "head" on the wall? I for one prefer art on my walls....and lots of it!
I'm with you Dave. Hate seeing dead anything on a wall. Most of my art is wildlife scenes. One with two wolves, one with a mom gorilla and her baby, one with an owl and one of a chickadee. Then of course the African Grey one. These are my "real" art (limited edition prints - Bateman, Seerey Lester and Terry Issac and an unknown). Then darn near everything else has an animal or two on it. I much prefer looking at someone's interpretation of life than someone's interpretation of death. I just don't get it.
Are you in Europe now? If so, have a great time and please keep us posted on how you are doing and how your mom is doing.
Di
Yes, I am here...thanks for asking....few days of rehearsal coming up (here in London)...then I get to go play :). Come to think of it....I have a lot of art....but I don't think there is one single painting that has an animal in it....but on the other hand, I have 12 dogs and a cat to look at everyday....so...sometimes it's hard to notice the art! ::)
(hmmm thinking of it I do have 3 Charles Fazzino's...I know there are little dogs in there somewhere...too much to look at on those paintings at times, they get you dizzy if you stare at them too long). :D
Lucky to say that i did not grow up in a home with dead animal heads on the walls, but i had a good number of friends that did. When going to their homes, I was always disturbed by them, way before becoming a vege.
if any vegwebers are in Europe and want to come to a show...i'll see if there are tickets available for my fellow veges....email me...i will NOT post the artist here (just not right to do so)...I'll be in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Holland (that's all i can think of at the moment)...email is starshiner123 at yahoooooooo Maybe I can start a "save an animal...see free music" club! (i can't promise there will be tickets available...but if there are, and you want to came...you're in)!
I always wondered why they used cartoon talking pigs to advertize BBQ joints. It's just weird.
Yeah, and don't forget the "happy cows" ad. I think if someone took my baby away from me and hooked my udders up to a machine would not make me very happy :'(
I find Bass Pro Shop to be the most disturbing store... TONS of dead animals all over the place in there. I bawled my first time seeing it (coincidentally I was wearing a shirt that said "Vegan Inside" that day), and I was just walking through from the parking lot into the mall. Now I avoid going in there at all costs. It's really gross and unecessary.
Well, How about the Chick-Fil-A cow ads: "Eat More Chicken" ?!(however they mis-spell it to try to make it funny)...as they make you want to think that eating chicken is "better" or "healthier" for you..... >:(
Ugh, this is reminded me of a place I worked at a few years ago; they stuck me in a corner that had, you guessed it, some sort of head on the wall; and since I was a temp, it's not like I could say, "could you please get this out of here?" I guess some people find nothing wrong with heads on the wall, but I think it is very distasteful and disturbing. I actually checked it out closeup, and there were little dead bugs all around its nose.....ick!!!
Well, How about the Chick-Fil-A cow ads: "Eat More Chicken" ?!(however they mis-spell it to try to make it funny)...as they make you want to think that eating chicken is "better" or "healthier" for you..... >:(
I always thought that was funny - go eet mor chiken!
Now it just seems kind of... sad - please eat the chickens, not us! :'(
Do not ever stop and go in the Big Texan Steak House in Amarillo. It's a house of horrors. Animal heads and stuffed animals everywhere you look and not a single thing to eat that's veggie on the menu. It's a big tourist attraction there but even before I became vegetarian again I felt like I'd rather take a sandwich and eat in the grave yard a bit down the road! My DH (this time it is darn hubby) took me there and bought us both sweatshirts. I'd like to burn mine but he wants it if I'm not going to wear it. . . .
Tintexas, is that the one where they sell that huge steak, and if you eat it all, then it's free? Barfarama!!!
Well surely they have baked taters up in there......for vegetarians they should have gianormous baked potaoes and if you eat it skin and all then your whole family eats free :P
This thread reminds me of one of SNL's fake commercials for The Cluckin' Chicken, which basically made fun of meat-selling companies using animal mascots in their commercials. Anyone else remember this one?
I found a video of it online, but it's really gross and will probably disturb you, so be warned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RToR7pnrSEw
Tintexas, is that the one where they sell that huge steak, and if you eat it all, then it's free? Barfarama!!!
Well surely they have baked taters up in there......for vegetarians they should have gianormous baked potaoes and if you eat it skin and all then your whole family eats free :P
It is indeed. I don't remember whether they had baked potato on the menu. I only remember the curly fries. I kinda think they didn't because I would have ordered one if they did. I remember looking at the menu and thinking don't come here if you're on a weight loss diet! The whole place reeked of machismo out the whazoo. I have nothing against masculinity or being proud of being a Texan. We are the state that was once its own republic, of course. Even when I wasn't veggie, I felt totally out of place there!
I think this place may take the cake:
http://www.heartattackgrill.com/
It is the home of the double bypass burger with FOUR beef patties. This is so disgusting. Oh, but don't miss "Alpha Male Monday" Looks like no one informed them that eating too much meat has been shown to cause impotence in males! :o
Oh gross. I'm not even gonna pull out my soapbox for this one. I'm too dumbfounded to know where to start. Do you think the guys that frequent this place know any words bigger than one syllable?
:D Good point Tanevab! Although, they must know at least one 2 syllable word: wheelchair. Because if you polish off one of these mega-gross burgers, you will get wheelchair service out to your car.
And we wonder why America is the fattest country on the planet?
Sad but true,
take a look http://www.heartattackgrill.com/
Too bad for the cows and pigs, the humans that eat it...well they'll get what they deserve in the long run. I can only hope it's painfull... >:(
sadly I grew up in a house where both my parents were hunters. I've seen killed deer hung from trees, and you can only imagine what else. *barf* And yes, there's a "dead head" on their wall, even to this day. I always mention it when I'm at their house hoping they'll take it down. :-\ It's just wrong...
And Hi Dave! Hope you're having a great time. :)
I think this place may take the cake:
http://www.heartattackgrill.com/
It is the home of the double bypass burger with FOUR beef patties. This is so disgusting. Oh, but don't miss "Alpha Male Monday" Looks like no one informed them that eating too much meat has been shown to cause impotence in males! :o
Uh, yeah, this place is like 5 minutes from my house--bleh. If the disgusting amounts of non-human animal flesh aren't enough, they have their waitresses dress up like slutty nurses. Apparently the only way for their customers to feel like 'real men' is to eat lots of flesh and be served by women who are showing lots of flesh...wow, manly... :-\
Heart Attack Grill - nothing natural selection won't take care of. ;)
Big Texan Steak House - Their website states 42,000 people have attempted and 8,000 have successfully eaten the 72-oz. steak (4.5 pounds), a baked potato, salad, dinner roll and shrimp cocktail to win it for free (otherwise it's $72).
(42,000 x 72 oz)/(1 pound / 16 oz) = 189,000 pounds of steak
189,000 pounds of steak / 50 ? pounds steak per cow = 3780 head of cattle :(
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