Sir Fartsalot sent me a CNN piece on vegan activism, and I’ve got mixed emotions. In years past, part of me would have gotten excited about seeing the V word discussed in just about any context, but the online news world has gotten to a point where the Beast Must Be Fed on a minute-by-minute basis and reporting doesn’t necessarily mean that something’s newsworthy; just that it’s something that someone managed to string a few hundred words together on.
(And yes, all you haters from CNN reading this, and I know your opinion of me because I’m not mentioned in your article, I’m aware that I’m doing the exact same thing right now. I can get away with saying I’m being ironic because neither of us really knows what that means anymore.)
Anyway, it wasn’t a total loss. I found out about the Vegan Avengers, who seem to have only made one appearance so far, but that might not be a bad thing:
I submit this as proof that the Big Book of Activism Ideas is not full, though the internet might be: Google is showing 223,000 results for how to make fake testicles. Going on a “if people are writing, people must be searching” basis (please don’t burst my blogger’s bubble by suggesting nobody is actually reading,) what if we could convert just 5% of the fake testicle searchers over to activism? What if?
And just to prove I am the grandfather of vegan testicular activism, because my business cards that say such things are on back order, I submit to you my post from November 2001. Cutting edge journalism at the time, but now probably on the home page of CNN.
Question of the day: what would you do (or, for some of you, what wouldn’t you do) with an oversized pair of fake testicles?
