Comments | beatgoddess: Gentle Thanksgiving website = Fatphobic

beatgoddess

Gentle Thanksgiving website = Fatphobic

Nov 23, 2008 19:53

Dear FarmUSA/Gentle Thanksgiving,

I applaud your efforts to get people to eschew animal-rich Thanksgiving meals, but I find your Top 10 Reasons to Skip Turkey this Thanksgiving list to be problematic. Number 4 ("Commercial turkeys are too obese to breed. Won't happen to you.") is hurtful because it implies that fat people cannot reproduce, and ( Read more... )

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leah_puppette November 24 2008, 01:29:05 UTC

i LOVE this letter!!!!!

beatgoddess November 24 2008, 02:22:40 UTC

Thank you so much! I as always love that icon; did you draw it, multi-talented you?

leah_puppette November 24 2008, 02:54:28 UTC

oh no.. this was done by Robert Crumb.. cartoonist from the 60s

beatgoddess November 24 2008, 03:32:03 UTC

That's an R. Crumb piece? Holy shit!

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somechicksings November 24 2008, 01:51:06 UTC

i'd like to write an email, but i can't find any contact info. did you mail this?

beatgoddess November 24 2008, 02:21:45 UTC

I did! Gentle Thanksgiving is a project of FarmUSA. Their website address is http://www.farmusa.org (hosted by VegSource.org), and their email address is: info@farmusa.org - that's the only email address I could find...there was none on the Gentle Thanksgiving site, which I think is not very tasteful.