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    Is this chicken too sexy? PETA thinks so.


    The "pin-up" style photo of a raw chicken lounging seductively ran in Wednesday's food section of the New York Times along with a story on the appeal of crispy, savory chicken skin. Now the animal cruelty prevention organization is aiming their laser-beam target at the old gray lady.

    "When I saw it I just couldn't believe that an editor of The New York Times would find it acceptable," PETA's founder and president Ingrid Newkirk told The Atlantic Wire. "It's downright offensive, not just to people who care about animals but almost to everyone. It's a plucked, beheaded, young chicken in a young pose," she said.

    Tina Loit, the Times photo editor who commissioned the shoot didn't see it that way. "That chicken had attitude," she said of the model, who was propped into a come-hither position with the help of weights and wire.

    The image was intended as a humorous, eye-catching approach to your standard food fetish art. But PETA's Newkirk is calling it necrophilia.

    Maybe he's mad that the Times stole a signature PETA move. For years, their print and commercial campaigns have relied on sex, particularly naked women, to attract media attention. Sex has become so synonymous with PETA, they're launching a pornography site linked, inexplicably, to their animal rights message. So what's so bad about a lounging chicken?

    If anything, PETA should be thanking the Times. After staring long enough at the photo of this goose-pimpled, cross-legged, headless lady-harlot, I may never eat another chicken again.
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    9,495 comments

    • Abid  •  Islamabad, Pakistan  •  3 months ago
      nothing
    • Kocaloco  •  Chattanooga, Tennessee  •  4 months ago
      OH- COME ON! Necrophilia? That's perverted, Miss Ingrid. I believe that you are the only one here who thinks that this dead chicken is "sexy". What kind of message are you trying to send? Sounds like you are talking out of both sides of your mouth. You [claim] to stand against animal abuse but yet show a lustful attitude with this chicken? Now that's perverted. I think I'd retire after this one. FAIL!
    • Alireza  •  Tehran, Iran  •  4 months ago
      oh my god
    • Sheuli Aktar  •  Dhaka, Bangladesh  •  5 months ago
      oh come sexy boy!
    • the crystal  •  5 months ago
      I think it is hilarious actually. you could also randomly lay a chicken down on your counter and it could end up like that.i am supportive of animal causes, but in this case, those opposed sound like chickens going around with their heads cut off.
    • Sabir Usmani  •  5 months ago
      wow
    • Fly  •  5 months ago
      Oh! nothing wroth
    • Audrey  •  6 months ago
      very very sexy!
    • Mariela  •  7 months ago
      Hey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      Where you from you
      SEXY THING!!!!!!!!!!
    • edyr  •  7 months ago
      Humanity is not only to respect all people rights but we should respect to all God's created (everything who live in these world and the outside there). Please do not push your ego to the others and the God will bless you,always.
    • AndreaM  •  7 months ago
      I think people went too far, the way they think, do you like eggs? tell me, where it come from? Your life depending in......... dont dig too much
    • Dr. Dammike Dissanayake  •  6 months ago
      I think PETA fond of necrophilia. Sure,isn't it?
    • Roger  •  6 months ago
      there's nothing wrong with the picture...it's only when you put a new meaning to it that makes it 'offensive'...
    • sho017  •  7 months ago
      niceeeeeee
    • Phiwe  •  7 months ago
      Was the chicken cruelly killed? If not let us not waist our energies debating this. Life is about sex fullstop.
    • Betty Nabisenke  •  7 months ago
      I see nothing sexy about the dead bird.People are just perverts.
    • parimal  •  7 months ago
      In the world of hunger men are most curious to eat.
    • kokoette inyang  •  7 months ago
      the designer is indeed creative. i die for creative minds
    • aziz  •  7 months ago
      THAT'S GOOD
    • Meshelle  •  7 months ago
      I rais meat! beef, chickens, rabbits, soon goats. They live well- and I kill them. They live better then me, they will expire or die better then I will. They are freerange. We also eat less meat.

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