By Iron Chef Leftovers
In one of the more ironic pieces that I have read in The Stranger in a while, apparently a well known Vegan magazine was caught red handed doctoring stock photos of meat dishes and passing them off as vegan. You can read the whistleblower’s comments here. Now, I am probably a bigger carnivore than most people, but even I have a problem with this. If you are going to show me a picture of food, it better be what someone made with the recipe. I was also disturbed to find out there is a website that has stock photos of food.
What is even more disturbing was VegNews’s response to being outed:
The entire VegNews family is deeply saddened with the dialogue that has transpired over the last 12 hours. As an ethical vegan magazine, owned-and operated by vegans since its inception, VegNews is a labor of love, totally motivated by our dedication to ending animal suffering.
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Yes, from time to time, after exhausting all options, we have resorted to using stock photography that may or may not be vegan. In an ideal world we would use custom-shot photography for every spread, but it is simply not financially feasible for VegNews at this time. In those rare times that we use an image that isn’t vegan, our entire (vegan) staff weighs in on whether or not it’s appropriate.
So, the way I read this – We are dedicated to militant veganism and think that all people who eat meat are worse than Hitler, but we are happy to use pictures of the same dead animals whose suffering we swear we are trying to end if it means that we can sell more magazines, even if it means deceiving our readers
What ever happened to truth in journalism?
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