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PETA to Daniel Craig: You Don’t Need Real Bacon to Be a Bond Beefcake

Daniel CraigAm I the only person in the UK to have still not seen the new Bond film, Quantum of Solace? I must stop pencilling it in my diary, and just go! Anyway, confession time over. Following the news that whilst filming, the hunk of the hour, Mr Daniel Craig, requested that British bacon be flown to him in Italy, we decided to send the 007 star a treat of our own – veggie bacon! The meat alternative tastes delicious, has more health benefits than you can shake a stick at and – this is my favourite part – it doesn’t involve cruelty to animals. Everybody’s a winner!

We know that charitable Daniel couldn’t possibly want to contribute to the misery that takes place on factory farms. Just a few examples include piglets having their teeth, tails and testicles cut off without painkillers, and pigs are often slaughtered while they are still conscious. To be a hero on and off screen, we think Mr Bond should save animals’ lives and give the veggie variety of bacon a go! What’s more, he might not be aware that eating meat can make you sluggish in the bedroom: because meat can contribute to clogsing the arteries to all of a person’s organs, it can lead to a higher risk of heart disease, strokes and even impotence – a problem unlikely to affect the fictional James Bond.

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posted by Sophia on November 17th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

Drool. If he gives up the pig meat I’ll be kind enough to accept him as my boyfriend :p

posted by MM on November 17th, 2008 at 9:29 pm

Haha, you are funny people. I just had a big piece of bacon and some chicken. And it tasted great.

Why don’t you find a real cause to involve in, people are dying all over the world, and you care about pigs and cattle. Shame on you/

posted by Michaela on November 18th, 2008 at 9:54 am

To “MM”, the sender of yesterday’s email
re Daniel Craig/bacon:

It’s insensitive and obnoxious people like
you that make PeTA and other animal rights activists fight for ANIMALS rather than for
HUMANS! If it wasn’t for people like “MM”
the world would be a much better place
especially for animals!! You are disgusting.

posted by Katie on November 18th, 2008 at 1:15 pm

No, you’re not the only one who hasn’t seen the new Bond film but I don’t intend to watch it, I’m just not a Bond fan.

It’s be great if Daniel Craig showed the world that even “manly” men will happily go veggie!

MM: There are lots of human rights charities around and I think you’ll find that people who support AR charities like Peta ALSO support human rights/welfare charities.

posted by laney_boggs on November 18th, 2008 at 7:07 pm

Imagine if the real Bond was a veggie, veggie power!!

posted by Sue on November 18th, 2008 at 11:08 pm

Daniel Craig is got the awesome body because he consumes meat - lots of good protein. Choose pasture-fed and free-range.

posted by Sue on November 18th, 2008 at 11:10 pm

The natural bacon wins hands down to the artificial, processed vegie bacon.

posted by Anne on November 19th, 2008 at 8:56 am

You can get plenty of protein from non-animal sources. I know vegan body buliders and they’ve got just as hot bodies as Craig.

posted by Maria McMahon on November 19th, 2008 at 2:26 pm

Although your article is well intended and I too wish the utterly gorgeous DC would go veg (how cool would THAT be??) you need to look into semantices - the use of the word beefcake is damaging, albeit at a subtly subconscious level. Eating meet is (wrongly!) associated with maleness / machismo = being ‘beefy’= beefcake - the subliminal association is that it’s macho to eat meat. Words can be our undoing without our even knowing it. But I’m 100% behind PETA, all the way.
LOL & keep up the fight!
Maria

posted by Hayley on November 27th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

I hate people like MM,
Why does an animal have less right to be cared about than a human? We all have the same end nervings which cause the same pain!

And why do arrogant people think that just because you campaign for animal rights and care about animals it means you don’t care about other things in the world? How about I care about animals AND starving people, and the enviroment and war and everything else but I just happen to love and care about animals as well, grrrrrrrrr So stupid.

posted by Andrea on November 27th, 2008 at 3:38 pm

People like MM, who are saying rather to help
people than animals, they are often the ones who care about nobody and help no one, apart from their own ego to criticise good people.
Also, because we humans have the intelligence
(some obviously not), it is our duty to help the weaker ones.

posted by Tara on November 27th, 2008 at 5:20 pm

Sue, there’s nothing ‘natural’ about an animal that is killed for its flesh, even if it is free-range. There’s plenty of protein to be had in cruelty-free foods that don’t involve the death of one so another can eat.

posted by Daragh O'Donnell on November 27th, 2008 at 5:41 pm

I am a commited vegetarian, I have been for over 20 years. I will never eat meat again but I believe PETA often does our cause more harm than good. Hasseling individuals like poor hunky Daniel Craig is a waste of time and energy. I am more impressed by the extravagance of flying bacon over to Itlay than the fact that he eats meat.

I really think PETA should leave the poor man alone and tackle the more important stuff. Vegetarians harrasing meat eaters is very counter productive, it often alienates them and makes them more opposed to the cause. Intelligent adults should be allowed to make their own minds up about what hey eat.

PETA should keep its focus on a few key issues.
I want to see the end of intensive factory farming and animal testing. This is horrific. I want to see the dignified and humane treatement of animals that will end up being eaten. If PETA put all its budgetand energy nto a few focussed campaigns we might get somewhere.

It aggrivates me when PETA sweats the small stuff. It makes it hard for me to justify and support what they do. I dislike the proliferation of anti-PETA sites on Facebook etc. but I undestand how PETA can make people feel cornered, and some of these sites seem to provide solid arguments against the organisation and track record that I have not seen contested.

I will still continue to be on the PETA mailing list however as I agree with many things, for example I am wholeheartedly with the PETA in thier cause to ban the horrific treatment of bulls in Spainish ‘culture’. The enjoyment of animal torture as a ’sport’ has no place in any civilised nation.

All the best.

posted by Peter G. Hart on November 28th, 2008 at 4:08 pm

“Haha, you are funny people. I just had a big piece of bacon and some chicken. And it tasted great.

Why don’t you find a real cause to involve in, people are dying all over the world, and you care about pigs and cattle. Shame on you”

It always makes me laugh, that posters would take the trouble to migrate to an animal welfare site, and spend time to post an ignorant and obnoxious comment, solely to distress others. It’s always amazing that fools like this characterize animal welfare advocates as having NO possible interest in anything other than animal welfare: as if it was impossible for them to be spending time volunteering or working on behalf of charities benefiting people as well. Isn’t it sad that the time that this person spent deliberately working to frustrate and insult animal welfare advocates could have been spent supporting a cause that did the world good?

posted by Astra on November 29th, 2008 at 11:53 am

I’d just like to say how wise Peter G. Hart’s comment was - the world would be a better place if everyone shared your opinon.

posted by Alexia on December 2nd, 2008 at 1:46 pm

Daragh,

Thanks for your comment! I’d like to think that we weren’t hassling Daniel Craig with the fake bacon, it was a friendly gift from us to him, to protect his health and the animals! :)

We use different tactics to reach different people, so we can reach as many people as possible. From the ‘Heat’-loving girls, to the ‘Financial Times’-enthusisasts, we want to spread the vegetarian and cruelty-free message to all kinds of people, in a way that speaks to them.

People support some campaigns more than others, and some may not agree with everything we do, but our underlying goal is to always help as many animals as possible, by drawing attention to and building awareness of animal rights issues.

I agree that people can make up their own minds about issues, but sending some fake bacon in the post is hardly cornering someone and forcing them into a vow of meat-celibacy! Just a little option to consider and to become aware of the facts about factory farming.

Thanks!

posted by Katie D. on December 28th, 2008 at 5:40 pm

I disagree with Peter G. Hart. I hate people like him who has to judge PETA for loving animals. PETA doesn’t tell us to only focus on animals. They couldn’t care less if we donate to humans as well as animals. In case some of you don’t know, ‘PETA’ stands for ‘People of the Ethnical Treatment of Animals’ not ‘you can only love animals and nothing else’.
As for Daniel Craig, I agree with Alexia, completely. We are only sending him something to try, to see what he thinks. Personally, I think the veggie meat is much better than the real stuff. I also think that it’s pretty silly to order fried pig all the way from England to Italy… but that’s his choice. I’m not saying that people don’t agree with it, but still….

To ‘MM’:
You can’t judge us like that. Like I said before, just because we love animals, doesn’t mean we don’t care for humans, too. It’s just people like you that make us hate you. You brought on yourself. Why not try to stop being so selfcentered and ignorant fool who doesn’t have anything to live for.

posted by Ryan on January 28th, 2009 at 5:29 am

MM goes about it the wrong way but he does have a point.

The point being that until thinking reasoning beings that are capable of consciously adapting and evolving to become better both individually and as a group should always recieve more attention and more effort towards their betterment then beings driven solely by instinct alone who cannot (at least in the forseeable future) make concious decisions about anything.

I would much prefer trying to the rid the world of human rapists then to try to rid the world of male pigs, cows, horses, etc. who genreally will mate with unwilling females of the species because it is their INSTINCT TO DO SO. They cannot be changed and all the pampering in world will not stop them from doing only what their insticts dictate.

Humans are better then animals. Why? For one thing I am communiating with you from what is likely to be thousands and thousands of miles from your location. How am I doing this, you might ask. Why its an invention that humans use called the internet. You see as a spcie we invent things to improve our lot in life where as animals are incapable of such. When a poor little pig is about to have its testicles ripped off and stands up on its hind legs and clearly asks for a lawyer then I will be the first to admit that animals should recieve equal efforts to their betterment as humanity does.

Until that time though I cannot in good concience ever devote myself to a cause about animals when there are still thriving slave trades in parts of our world.

Good Day

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