They were the ones that did the excellent expose on the vegan restaurants in LA that were actually using animal ingredients. Luckily, I had not frequented any of the shameful establishments before the piece was published.
Their latest work is humorous rather than horrifying, though.
VegNews is a leading website/magazine for vegetarians/vegans. I have dipped in and out over the years, mainly looking for dinner ideas.
But the latest?
It has been revealed that VegNews have been using stock photos in their articles to go along with their recipes.
OK, you say, what's the problem with that?
Well, my dear readers... the problem is... they have been using stock photos of MEAT!
So that lovely veggie burger? Beef.
Nice bean stew? Chicken.
Vegan ribs? Real ribs with the bones airbrushed out.
I shit you not! Article can be seen here.
People (understandably) were upset and so contacted VegNews about it. And how did they respond? They blocked people, deleted their comments, and claimed they were violating their terms of service.
So everyone waited til the mods of the website had gone offline for the night and went kinda crazy.
VegNews could have handled this so much better but chose not to. Their former staff say this has been common practice for a long time.
Wanna see the abuse they are getting on Twitter?
It has been my experience over the years that people just like to exploit vegans (unreasonable prices for things labelled vegan, etc). I see this as being no different.
Boycott VegNews and all other money-grabbing charlatans.
0 comments:
Post a Comment