Just in case this country happens to be Switzerland it should be mentioned that this is due to the state protecting domestic farmers from any foreign competition (for long there was an almost de facto import prohibition) and resulting ridiculously high meat prices. It is not motivated by a worry for the environment or the animals but comes out of a concern for the income of the mythical farmer.

But perhaps you live somewhere else. Anyway I agree with you to a large extend. I just have a reflex against Swiss rural romanticism, that’s all. Sorry.

I wouldn’t trust her to interpret any art, not with her foregone conclusion about what it all means. It is a common mistake that amateur critics make when they assume that any statement about a subject that an artist makes is an endorsement of that subject, rather than a call to think about that subject.

Soap, just read her Wiki and reach your own conclusions. What seems evident is she was attacked on her way back from a modeling gig. She blamed her profession for her attack – or for cultivating the mindset of her attackers. Ergo, better not model. Better warn the whole world not to model! Better consider that it is all a conspiracy to cultivate a mindset in which women can be attacked! Some traction to that idea, in that there is certainly art – and advertising – which does depict women as weak, and it is indeed trying to sell an image of what women “are”, which is limited and constraining and objectionable if it were meant to be the sum total of the person’s (character’s) existence. But a sensible person knows that people “are” everything – weak to strong, happy to angry, perfect to imperfect, etc., and would not try to stop the depiction of some aspects of the human condition out of the belief that people are too stupid to know anything but what bands of conditions they see in art.

Heck, come anywhere 120+ day corn isn’t going to happen.

The US grazes plenty of cattle.  You are simply incorrect. Do no not confuse corn finished with corn raised.

We don’t bale the interstate RoW to feather our beds!

Right now it’s a useless, masturbatory stock photo that says nothing, and achieves even less. (Beautiful and sexy, but useless.)

A better example: (translation: “Here is the rest of your fur coat”)
http://greenmob.com.mx/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/pieles.jpg

> Perhaps this sort of imagery is new to you. Lucky you. It is not so to the rest of us.

I think, like others, you’re focusing on the female nudity. I don’t think that is a fair evaluation. It could have been a naked man and still an interesting photo.

> isn’t the least bit funny, especially if you bother to be troubled by the misogynistic dismissal of women as disposable or consumable flesh

I do agree with this issue. However, you seem to have already decided that there was no ironic intent in the picture; irony and sarcasm are forms of humor. Therefore I don’t think my original choice of words in describing the photo was inaccurate.

Maybe there’s a certain crowd on boingboing that is jaded, but I think they’re just a) failing to see things in a simpler light, and b) projecting their own pre-existing opinions on the comments of other people. I myself am new here and find this kind of hostility unwarranted. I must point out that the objective fact is this thread is 70+ comments long. Let me ask, how else do you want to measure provocativity?

Perhaps this sort of imagery is new to you.  Lucky you.  It is not so to the rest of us.  

2. You disagree with what I said, and so allow only the most extremely interpretation of the word “provocative”. I.e. you’re fixating on one single piece of diction.

To be clear:

> Anybody claiming that images of nude conventionally attractive women

I never claimed that. Your objections are sloppy and I find this extremely difficult to respond to.

All the people who “Liked” your comment are being similarly misled. This is quite frustrating.

Look, there’s no way you could support your statement with facts, let alone your “vast majority of the world’s livestock” claim (which is especially specious). You really don’t have to justify eating meat; it’s perfectly acceptable in today’s world.

These people have never watched a nature special, have they…  The world spins on ‘murder’.

If you’ve got a cunning scheme for making a typical Scottish Highlands hill farm into an arable farm with rolling waves of amber grain then I’d love to see it.

[edit: caption says this was part of a protest. If I were around bunch of protesters, I'd be more likely to look for the message in the art. So I WOULD figure it out.]