Yes, the picture (see left) illustrating the chicken skin jawn in DI/DO yesterday was, how you say... rather Ingres? But like, whatever, bro.
Except for PETA. This publicity-shy outfit broke its tradition of silence to opine: 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." The Cod was not wild about the initial illustration, but this makes the bones in his head hurt (more on those later). The general inference of the PETA beef is that the pose is inappropriately sexual. But, PETA's whole schtick is sexualizing animal rights issues, including a forthcoming porn site. So if selling stuff w/ sex is PETA's meat and potatoes, the only recourse remaining to them to criticize DI/DO is to claim that the chicken skin illustration is the wrong kind of porn -- thus one "plucked" amd two "young"s in the description of the image. I can check w/ my poultry scientists, but if I am correct that a commercial chicken's lifespan is measured in weeks, the category of "young" is not that helpful. The DI/DO image is creepy, yes, but it is not the avian kiddie porn PETA alleges.
Ingres as in the school of Poussin? I consulted the Google.
PETA will likely take you to court over posting a pix of Nicki Minaj's hot-pink chicken wing necklace.
Posted by: Marco | Friday, 30 September 2011 at 09:28 AM