NBC pulled the plug on a PETA pro-veggie commercial planned for the Super Bowl because it “depicts a level of sexuality exceeding our standards,” according to NBC Universal’s advertising standards executive, Victoria Morgan. The ad, which carries the tagline, “Studies Show Vegetarians Have Better Sex,” shows lingerie-clad stunners getting “intimate” with vegetables. One shot depicts an actress “rubbing her pelvic region with a pumpkin.”
Says a PETA rep: “PETA’s veggie ads are locked out, while ads for fried chicken and burgers are allowed, even though these foods make Americans fat, sick and boring in bed.”
Well, maybe that’s because fast-food ads don’t show lingerie models rubbing Big Macs all over themselves and licking french fries suggestively. Would that it were so… But then, even McDonald’s isn’t as desperate for attention as PETA.
Great ad, though. “Studies show.” I’d like to see how these studies are conducted. By which I mean being in the same room, perhaps with a video camera. Just imagine the hot, forbidden sexy talk these vegetarians must whisper to each other to make things dangerous and exciting: “Sometimes I wonder if global warming is even real.” “Ooooh baby, recite another Paula Deen recipe.” “Oh God, oh God… not that He exists.” “Yes, yes, hybrids are for dorks!”
By the way, has anybody told the lions and wolves and so forth about this whole thing? They probably thought they were doing fine, but PETA knows better.
Check it out, ladies, here’s your all-night vegan lover:
You’re welcome! And don’t worry, fellas, here’s one for you:
What’s that? Well, you’re wrong. Studies show.
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OH GOD! Smart ass humor overload… “rubbing her pelvic region with a pumpkin.” That’s what she said about me… Studies/hybrids/vegetarians/good sex vegan chicks less flexible…brittle bones… kick Moby’s ass and eat him… not in a sexy vegan way…I like to go swimming with one legged women….
**PAFF! Head explodes***
I actually feel like exploding with frustration. PETA make me so enraged, what a load of absolute that vegetarians have better sex.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’d rather have a delicious, rare, and dripping-with-blood steak than sex.
M’eh, predictable shock tactics for either PETA or Howard Stern.
What’s next? A Jenna-Jameson “I’d rather dildo with a zuchini campaign?”
Or perhaps a Moby “I’d rather be schtupped with a butternut squash” 30 second spot.
Or Heather Mills replacing her carbon fiber prosthesis with a living tree, complete with a waterproof boot to hold water and mulch?
You haven’t had sex until you have had it with a cauliflower.
Well, maybe that’s because fast-food ads don’t show lingerie models rubbing Big Macs all over themselves and licking french fries suggestively.
They show Paris Hilton on a car eating Carl’s Jr. >_< That should’ve been banned too.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’d rather have a delicious, rare, and dripping-with-blood steak than sex.
Truth? I’d rather have both.
One after the other, like really great sex. and then a bloodybloody rare as might as well be mooing-steak. 
Here are some details maybe PETA should check out:
foods like meat, dairy, and shellfish are high in zinc. A zinc deficiency can lead to an inability to produce testosterone, which affects both male and female libido. The same holds true for low protein diets, especially in older men. Foods such as whole grains and beans, part of a vegetarian diet, can also interfere with the body’s ability to absorb zinc.
Some vegetarians also suffer from anemia, a lack of iron, B12, or folic acid. This can also affect sexual performance.
In females there is no significant effect of vegetarianism/veganism on oestradiol or sex hormone binding globulin, as compared to meat eaters. Estradiol/oestradiol is a female hormone which fluctuates during monthly cycles, decreases at menopause, and is is important in female sex drive. An increase in estradiol can increase libido… but this will not occur because of a vegetarian/vegan diet.
Yeah, but she was just eating the burger, not rubbing it where it might improve the smell.
i need to go wash my eye’s in bleach thanks to PETA.
on another, totally unrelated note, i’d totally do moby (but not because he’s a vegan).
Simon you just made me vomit in my mouth.
Qgirl – you took the post right out of my…uh mouth?
After all the hoo-ha about Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction a few years back, it’s hard to believe PeTA thought NBC would go for this spot, which is practically soft-core porn.
It makes me think that Simon’s “desperate for attention” remark is more than apt.
Sex sells. Sex with vegetables? Not so much.
Besides, what’s sex without the meat?
not rubbing it where it might improve the smell.
Rofl.
Touche.
I still vote that it should’ve been banned though.
I’m usually not fussed about sexual content/nudity/blah blah. But really, it doesn’t matter that this is even a PETA commercial. It really doesn’t belong on network TV. It’s more than just the sexuality of it. It’s implying sex with vegetables, which if that’s your thing and it makes you happy, I’m no one to judge, but it just goes a little too far for your average middle aged viewer in the Bible Belt.
If I were twelve and that commercial had come on while I was watchinig TV with my parents, it would have been a very long, awkward thirty seconds. Just sayin’.
Well, a fuss was raised about the Paris ad too… but this was so much worse. This kind of made me want to go confess and I’m not Catholic.
From a practical standpoint, who is supposed to be influencing? Can they not get dates, so they have to bribe men somehow? http://www.blondie.com/dailies/index.asp?month=1&year=2009&comic=2009-1-27
PeTA can afford Super Bowl commercials? NBC can turn down Super Bowl sponsors? I thought this was the New Great Depression?
Ask a lesbian.
No. That’s why they made sure it would be rejected and they could complain about it.
Yeah, what would be funny would be PETA trying to advertise themselves by recruiting ACTUAL VEGANS to whore themselves out.
The scantily clad, airbrushed women in anti fur ads? AREN’T REAL VEGANS. If PETA wasn’t so worried about publicity, they would have hired Moby or Heather Mills to rub their genitals against a broccoli spear.
I feel bad for the little boys who convert to veganism because they’ll think it’ll get “hot chicks” in their beds. PETA is shallow, and what’s even worse than being shallow is placing yourself on a sanctimonious pedestal while being shallow.
PETA’s diatribe against society, as if they’re superior to a mainstream lifestyle is so logically flawed in many different ways. If you must resort to the same desperate standards used by the media to recruit subscribers, you’re no less of a conformist to the “big bad machine” AKA consumerism.
Touche, Rocko!
The cattle industry (I forget the official name of the beef association) don’t resort to half naked women rubbing up against livestock in their ads. I am sensing some desperation on PETA’s part here. And really, creating a romantic atmosphere in order to lick produce is desperate on so many levels.
I have to wonder also… did PETA members go and have sex with hated “meat gorgers”, as we are called, to compare?
PETA are full of sh*t!
Moby and Heather Mills? You are not serious ::vomit:
Wait. Why would PeTA want an ad of their’s to be played during football? Aren’t footballs made of leather? Shouldn’t they be boycotting football in general, not using it to gain vegetarian footing over the drunk people downing pizza and hot wings?
My thought exactly Simon. PETA never intended for this ad to air on the super bowl. They are just looking for more hits on their ‘too hot for tv ad’. We’ve played right into their hands.
PETA has no standards. In fact, go to consumerfreedom.com and read about how PETA people have smaller brains than meat-eaters.
Actually Lexi, PeTA loves football:
http://blog.peta.org/archives/2008/12/top_five_vegeta.php
Look at the winning stadium mascots:
1. San Diego Chargers (okay, I’ll admit that electricity guy in spandex might be a vegan)
2. Oakland Raiders (Raiders eat meat at every meal, real Raiders even eat other Raiders)
3. Philly Eagles (hello? Eagles are blood sucking raptors)
4. Minn Vikings (mead & meat & raping & pillaging & mead & meat…)
5. Green Bay Packers (named after A MEAT PACKING COMPANY!)
I’m also guessing from the last paragraph that the author is a little unclear about what goes into bratwurst.
I don’t understand “The Superbowl™” — If your team isn’t in it, who cares?
Minnow, you’d think that PeTA would love it some Redskins…after all, they are named after potatoes…
How come there weren’t any men rubbing themselves with vegetables, other than the obvious ick factor?
But MC Mom – potatoes have eyes! Eyes are used to see! Therefore, potatoes are animals!
QED.
I don’t care if they weren’t Famous. I don’t care if they are Vegans. I would hit it!
LOL everyone! Hooowee. X-D
Well, Dr. Ruth should be happy.
Raiders eat meat at every meal, real Raiders even eat other Raiders…
Minnow: Are you from the Raider Nation?
Sorry chrocs, I’m from Lions territory.
I know. Go ahead. Laugh now.
That’s why I do the college football thing. I’m a Michigan Wolverine.
I know. Go ahead. Laugh now.
Hockey anyone?
Minnow, don’t you have a baseball team too? Detroit Tigers.
Don’t worry. I’ve already laughed.
Minnow:
How could I laugh at you when The Emperor seems to be inclined to choose Cable the Hutt over Darth Chucky as the new coach?
Ah, we used to be the terror of the NFL…
“Ah, we used to be the terror of the NFL…”
You still are. Fat men in sadomasochistic leather is always quite the fright.
Cable makes our Jim Schwartz move seem downright Einsteinian. Jim who?
And Rocko? Pblllttttttttt!
I’m a Dolphin fan.
You know what Dolphins eat?
Sea kittens.
Alive and raw.
Eh, I’d still do Moby. And then slip some bacon in his mouth while he was asleep.
Chronic, we here in Boston used to laugh at your Dolphins, but no more. They must’ve improved by eating lots ‘n’ lots of sea kittens.
And Minnow, buck up – you’ve still got the Pistons, right? Right?!?
If at least those fat men were our defensive line, no RB would be having 200 yd against us in a single game.
Chronic: So, now you have the biggest, fattest, sea kitten in the front office. Is that the reason your guys improved so much this year?
Talk to me when you go 0 and 16 chrocs…
*completely off topic*
Uht oh, Minnow… I think I have to hate you now, being a Buckeye and all
Actually, go Michigan, but don’t tell anyone that. In other football news, I feel your pain. As a Broncos fan, while we’ve never had a record like that, we’re just the ones known for losing the Super Bowl.
*back on topic*
So, apparently now some (sorry, don’t remember who…) is raising a fuss because this ad has been rejected but NBC has okayed a pro-life ad which is “political.”
What exactly IS this NFL of which you speak? Football is the one where they have the little black disc that they try to throw into a hoop, right? With the goalie and stuff.
Here we go, an article about NBC walking both sides of the fence… not surprising, and not that strong of a hypocritical argument, but interesting nonetheless.
Oops, actually putting the article link in would help: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=404492 That’ll teach me to try to sneak comments in while at work.
Cows are vegetarians. They don’t appear to me to be having a great ‘sex life’. They seem to be obsessed with eating.
“Cows are vegetarians. They don’t appear to me to be having a great ’sex life’.”
Been on a farm much? I think by 3 I was well aware that cows and horses loved to give each other piggy back rides… several times a day. And lawd-ah’mercy, goats are REALLY serious about team sports.
MC Mom, chrocs…
I was laughing and crying all last year.
And yeah, sea kittens, especially big, fat juicy ones, might have something to do with it.
uh, correction… what about that totally unnecessary carls jr super bowl ad that ran last year??? i guess that paris hilton dressed in underwear rubbing herself all over that car and taking a bite out of hamburger is somehow relevant and not just attention seeking???
please explain.
Please scroll up.