Website Review: GoVeg.com
Posted on October 10, 2007
Filed Under Vegetarian Websites |
GoVeg.com is a side project owned by PETA. The goal of the website is to inform the visitor of the benefits of a vegetarian diet. On the navigation bar, the site provides links to pages on cruelty to animals, health issues, and the environment. There is also an entire section where you can ‘meet the animals.’ GoVeg.com usually shows on the main page links to PETA contests, events, or other sponsored activities. Today it shows PETATV links to a ‘Lettuce Lady’s Video.’
In addition to providing information on vegetarianism, GoVeg.com seems to like to promote a free Vegetarian Starter Kit. I would review the contents, but I order one last August (2006) and never received it. This is not to say that its just a ploy to get your information, but I can’t argue that its not.
The meet the animals section likes to show graphic pictures of the animals and describe the gruesome ways in which they can be treated. It may be convincing as an argument for converting to vegetarianism but I honestly doubt that all conditions are so bad. In fact, I grew up in the Poultry Capital of the world and aside from the open air trucks and occasional bird that escaped somehow and is wandering around the side of the road, the conditions don’t appear to bad. I’m sure there are some terrible things that do happen; I know for a fact that most of these animals never touch the ground in their lifetime and frequently have excrement fall upon them in their cages, but we must keep it in perspective to.
PETA has good intentions for the animals; I have no doubt. But they do go to extreme measures which sometimes can have the opposite effect as they are looking for. People that have not chosen a side on the issues may frequently choose the opposing side simply because they do not like PETA’s tactics.
Take a look at the website here: GoVeg.com
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I write the VegCooking blog for PETA, and I would like to personally send you another VSK. Please write back so we can ship it out today. Thanks!