“Sushi” refers to the sour rice, not the fish. You can have completely vegan sushi.
A farmed salmon would use / pollute orders of magnitude more water then an ai image. Even if peta was willing to buy salmon there wouldve been way more resources used to create this in real life then via ai. Just the rice in the sushi would’ve required more water to grow and then prepare compared to the AI image.
And yet you participate in society - curious.
Juxtaposing cattle trains with the Holocaust was all I needed to dismiss this organisation as chronically unserious. They’re the equivalent of those antiabortion activists who think showing disturbing gory photos of medical procedures is a moral argument against said procedures.
The thing that made me question my meat-eating was not images of slaughterhouses, battery farms or being harangued by tone deaf social media posts that scold me as immoral. It was watching animals playing and showing affection for each other and for other species. Gifs of cows playing with a ball, a lamb begging for pets from a human, chickens recognising their human friend and running up to them for a hug, a cat and a crow being pals; that’s the kinda shit that changes hearts and minds. PETA’s tone and behaviour makes animal rights activism look like an emotional outlet for narcissists who don’t actually have any expectation that they’ll achieve anything, but just enjoy the recreational self-righteous hectoring.
Isn’t that what this post is trying to do? It’s not using gory or disgusting pictures of salmon farms, the sushi even looks appetizing. It’s humanizing the animal and talking about the joys a salmon was supposed to have before it was caught and served up to you.
A lot of the modern peta campaign is more in the vain your talking about. The ones I’ve seen recently are ads in the metro saying “I’m me not meat” with pictures of crabs and other animals looking cute
AI bad AND Peta bad, right guys!
Are we sure that’s AI and not just AI paranoia caused by a decent photoshop job? Cause it looks like a shop to me (Because of the pixels, and having seen quite a few shops in my time)
Also keep shitting on PETA, the aegis and vanguard of an ethical and ecological movement, you certainly won’t ever regret doing that.
they are very easy to hate and there’s a lot of misinformation about them online. I used to hate them too before going vegan and I still don’t agree with some of their activism
It’s worth taking a moment to remember that PETA, despite not being perfect, has been the victim of a smear campaign by the meat industry, so every mistake they make is amplified and every policy that isn’t immediately obviously sensible is reframed to look as bad as possible. E.g. you’ll often see that PETA-run dog shelters euthanise a lot more dogs than the average shelter, leaving out the context that plenty of no-kill shelters send all their sick dogs to a PETA shelter to be euthanised so they can claim not to have killed the dog, but that skews the statistics. You’ll also see news reports about PETA abducting a pet dog and killing it, which leave out the fact that it’s one past event being reported over and over as if it’s news each time, and that it was a much more nuanced situation than most people think. A pet dog’s collar fell off while it was unattended playing with a pack of strays, which animal control had been dispatched to round up, and then sent to PETA to be put down, then a series of clerical errors meant animal control told the owners they never had the dog and told PETA that the dog had already been held waiting to see if an owner claimed it, so it was already dead by the time the owners tracked down where it had really ended up.
PETA is the Westboro Baptist Church of the animal rights movement: Purely focused on getting eyes at them at any cost, no matter how stupid it makes them and the people associated with them look. I’ll never take an organization that wasted their time yelling about how catching bugs in a video game is evil seriously. At this point, they’re either willfully stupid or they’ve been infiltrated by the meat industry and pushed to do things that discredit them.
Hating one side doesn’t automatically make you like the opposing side.
You can hate both PETA and the industrial meat industry. You can also laugh at memes mocking both.
At the end of the day, PETA creates misinformation and isn’t on the side of good. They milk their supporters for more money and once in a while, gets a really good talking point but then botch it because of how stupid they present themselves.
Smear campaign or not, their marketing and social media presence is aggressive and obnoxious on purpose. It seems to be purely focused on getting as many eyes on them as possible without actually considering what those eyes will think of them after getting the desired attention.
When I think of PETA I don’t think of an organization with strong moral and ethical principles, I think of an organization that made a bunch of tone-deaf video game parodies in the 2000s to try and get attention. Those are wounds that are entirely self-inflicted.
i played all those awful peta games as a kid, they would show all the gross shit in slaughterhouses and stuff
didnt change my eating habits one bit
We’ve got a badass over here!
thanks 💪😎🤳
That… wasn’t a compliment.
it was and i thank you for it
PETA exists to kite misplaced public vitriol and industrial counter-propaganda away from the constellation of smaller animal advocacy groups who make the majority of forward progress on their shared mission. Some local vegan advocacy group with 30 members can do an outsized amount of good in their community but isn’t going to survive a corporate laser targeting, however PETA can shrug off an attack like that without issue. PETA is basically the main tank of a raid group, smaller orgs are the DPS, and industrial animal agriculture (Or from my social ecology perspective, our tendency to dominate the natural world in general) is the raid boss. PETA very much wants the vitriol and isn’t at all the out of touch misguided organization that they willing and strategically wear as a reputation.
Except tanks don’t go around making adventurers look bad.
To the contrary! A bumbling oafishness that sometimes makes the team look bad to outsiders is a core tank trope and a common recipe for initiating encounters. And Taunt is a cornerstone of the tank kit.
Seriously though, PETA doesn’t make other vegan activists look any worse than animal ag propaganda already does. A lot of money goes into making vegans look bad.
Yea a lot of money goes in to making activists look bad … which is exactly why it’s absolutely moronic of PETA to contribute actively to the problem.
Especially when they’re adding credibility to the slander.
And yet, it’s a strategy that has worked for decades.
TIL that showing PETA actively contributing to slander and demonstrating to normies that vegans can be massive moronic hypocrites is magically a good thing… Your brain is mush.
No ad hominem please, I presume we’re all adults here. I understand why PETAs strategies may seem counter-intuitive from the outside, but they’re a large organization that has been finding success in their mission for decades.
Im in the mood for sushi now.
Wow, this is so edgy and hilarious!
Thanks! I’ll be here all week!
They aren’t promoting an environmentalist message here though, but an anti-animal-cruelty message. You can agree or disagree that it’s a good message, but it has nothing to do with their shitty AI ad.
Animals aren’t as good as humans at surviving climate change, so caring about one should include caring about the other…
Firstly, human beings are animals.
Secondly, there are plenty of examples of different species of animals that benefit - nay, thrive - because of climate change. Blanket statements such as yours is not helping either side.
Ahh yes, we’re thoroughly within a mass extinction event, but let’s celebrate because a select few are thriving!
You’re braindead.
I agree. However if you do stuff primarily for the animals, you almost always are secondarily doing things for ecology and society too, even if that isn’t necessarily the intention. There are a lot of beneficial external side effects to spreading veganism.
The animal they’re asking us not to eat requires water to live. Something ai uses a lot of.
Sushi is generally salt water fish. AI uses fresh water.
a big fish requires smaller fish to live. something that himans eat a lot of
ai does use a lot of water, but i dont think its a driving factor that majorly affects fish. there may be places where industrial water use is “drying up” rivers, lakes, etc, but ai data centers are not likely a proportionally large part of this. most water use goes towards agriculture, and a lot of that agriculture is used for animal feed (for the animals that people eat) and creating ethanol to power cars. ai is bad, but not in a way tgat greatly affecta fish
Pretty sure that’s a trout, not a salmon.
A freshwater fish that will never see a kelp forest. Because those only exist in salt water.
And trout are not full of rice
Aha! And just how do you know what the inside of a fish is like, fish-murderer?
Wow, good eye. I hope that doesn’t mean the whole thing is fake
I know peta isn’t perfect, but really now?
Yes, really.
Why did you post this 3 times?
isn’t that just a photoshoped image (except maybe the fish) or am i missing something? cause i can’t really tell if that’s AI-generated
It has the ChatGPT image gen grain. Also notice the sushi slice closer to the knife, the salmon makes no sense.
Yeah the closer the sushi got to the salmon the more the AI confused it as part of the fish to the point that the closest roll has spots on the wrap that match the fish lol
It does seem easy enough to whip together in photoshop, and partially I’d guess that’s what happened because of the way the fish casts zero shadow on the hand behind it and the way the salmon skin is layered over one sushi piece and no others, but perhaps it’s simply become easier for companies to use GenAI for even simple photoshop tasks.
The salmon look like a picture of a salmon trophy that’s been cut out with a pen tool selection without a feather.
Though the meat looks a little bit suspect…
Why is it crying a giant sperm?
Because seas are full of seamen.
you don’t?
Fish turned into nori… funniest shit I’ve ever seen.
