Near-naked PETA models in hot tub protest water wasted on animal products

[The Straight Story]

OTTAWA -- Office workers out for lunch Wednesday got more than they bargained for as two near-naked female models shared a hot bubble bath at the corner of Bank St. and Albert.

Covered in little more than bubbles and goose pimples, the two bathers involved in the stunt staged by animal rights organization PETA, braved the cold and leers from passersby to mark World Water Day and spread the message that eating meat is not environmentally friendly.

"Not only is the meat industry cruel, it also wastes huge amounts of water and damages the planet," PETA campaigner Emily Lavender said. "This is a fun way to get the message across that eating a lot of meat is not good for people or the environment.

"If you want to save the planet, the best place to start for most people is to adopt a vegan diet, no meat, dairy or animal products."

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2014/03/20140319-145340.html

[Historic NY]

1. They're wasting water and soap..

for a stunt for preening themselves.

[Control-Z]

2. I'm not a PETA Fan.

But this stunt isn't offensive to me the way many often are. The models are less exposed than the average beach goer. Well, until their bubbles run out.

[Warren DeMontague]

18. I like this guy's reaction.

I don't know, it just seems very.... Canadian.



"ooh, wots this aboot, eh?"

[nomorenomore08]

24. I like him better than the yahoos recording on their phones...

[Warren DeMontague]

26. For sure, but then I've seen naked women in bathtubs before. Okay, maybe not in Ottawa, but...

to be fair, you don't do this sort of thing if you don't expect attention. It's sort of the point of the exercise.

[nomorenomore08]

27. For sure. I was just smiling and shaking my head at those guys, honestly.

You'd almost think they'd never seen a naked lady in person.

[Warren DeMontague]

28. It obviously aint Portland.

[pinboy3niner]

30. The Canadians I know are no stangers to nudity

The emails they send me I coundn't even post here.

[uncommonlink]

3. I'll stick with my meat and potatoes diet.

PETA can go pound sand for all I care.

[Warren DeMontague]

20. They get the folks mad about nudity and sexuality to fight the people mad about meat eating

really, what more can you ask for, in terms of public performance art?

[Gravitycollapse]

4. PETA: Cows, unlike women, are not just objects for your consumption.

[flvegan]

5. Notice how folks miss the message

because of how they feel about a certain group.

"Fuck having water, I like eating X. But I'll bitch about fracking and XYZ all day long. Chomp, bacon chomp. I'm an idiot."

[Beaverhausen]

10. +1000

[Codeine]

23. That just about sums it the fuck up, unfortunately. nyt

[CFLDem]

25. Mmm Bacon...

Nothing better than a 3AM bacon run.

Thanks flvegan!

[RandiFan1290]

29. Don't forget the transfats!

Remember Bloomberg? Make sure you eat pounds and pounds of transfats!

[Eleanors38]

6. I lessened my support of the meat industry...

...I got 2 deer this year, and they reside in my freezer without consuming water.

[BainsBane]

7. . . .

[seabeyond]

8. so fuggin awesome and perfectly... when you're strange.... bah hahahahah. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

14. Take heed, PETA.

You need meat.

[BainsBane]

17. . . .

[Warren DeMontague]

19. At first glance, I thought he was...

yeah, you got it.

[seabeyond]

22. Yikes... Da loaf.... Bah ha ha ha. Cute. Nt

[jmowreader]

9. How do they come up with this number?

According to vegsource.com, the "most accepted" number of gallons of water per pound of market-ready beef is 2500.

I did a little research here.

The National Research Council publishes "Nutrient Requirements of Beef Cattle." (You can get it on Amazon. It's nearly $50.) According to this book, an 1100-lb non-lactating beef cow will, on a 70-degree day, consume nine gallons of water in 24 hours. Let's throw a couple of variables in there - they don't always weigh 1100 pounds and over the cow's life it can range from below-freezing weather to 100-plus in the summer - to say our "average" cow drinks 14 gallons per day, every day of his short life. A beef cow needs 15 months to reach market weight...so let's use a 450-day lifespan, a 6300-gallon total consumption, and 50 percent yield on your meat...1100 pounds of steer on the hoof turns into 550 pounds on foam trays. Do all the math and round up to the nearest full gallon...12 gallons of water per pound of meat.

There is a vast difference between 2500 and 12. And so far I can't find what goes into the difference.

[Beaverhausen]

11. Water to grow the grain the cow eats

Water and fuel to transport the cow and the meat to market. Lots more water than merely what the cow drinks

http://water.usgs.gov/edu/sc1.html

[LeftyMom]

12. Growing feed. nt

[hfojvt]

13. the funny thing is that water, unlike oil

is never wasted.

Let me turn my sink on full blast and just run it for a week. I will end up with a huge water bill, but none of the water will be 'wasted'. It all ends up either back in a river, the ground, or the air and keeps cycling around.

Since it is treated water, the chemicals and energy that go into treating it would be wasted, but not the water.

Well some water is wasted, or taken out of the cycle. Some of it ends up in half full bottled water that is thrown away with its cap on and maybe sits in a landfill for hundreds of years before the plastic breaks down enough for it to seep back into the ground.

And maybe some of the water in batteries gets broken down into hydrogen and oxygen.

[LeftyMom]

16. Water can be "wasted" in the sense that it's no longer in the storage system for your region.

I'm in California. If I turn on the tap and let the water run for a week that water goes through the treatment plant and out into the delta and off to the Pacific. It's not used for showers or farms or lawns or wildlife or to generate electricity. We've got a finite amount of water in the reservoirs and the Sierra snowpack and we have to make it last until next winter, which means we have to use what's there efficiently. That what we waste is going to evaporate and fall as snow on Kilimanjaro (or wherever) doesn't make it any less "wasted" for purposes of managing our regional resources.

In other regions the wait might be a great deal longer. Growing feed is draining the Ogallala aquifer so fast that it's going to take 100,000 years to refill.

[hfojvt]

21. well that is true

I did not think California.

Even my hometown in South Dakota had water rationing every summer.

Here in eastern Kansas we have seemingly limitless supply with the mighty Missouri flowing by. But even that was getting dangerously low back in 2012.

Which was ironic considering the huge flood we had just a year or two earlier. Something like 100,000 cubic feet of water going by every second.

People don't seem to water their lawns here like they did in my hometown even though we usually have long very hot and bone dry spells in mid summer.

[jmowreader]

31. On the other hand...

a lot of chemical reactions (such as burning gasoline) produce water.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Ottowa?

I hope the bathtub was heated, at least.