VRC’s Gun-Toting Corn Billboard Rejected in Kansas City
The Vegetable Rights Coalition’s (VRC) brand-new billboard — showing an ornery-looking ear of corn brandishing an automatic weapon next to the tagline “If the Scallion Doesn’t Get You, I Might!” — won’t go up in Kansas City, as it was rejected by all local outdoor-advertising companies. Since “harvesting plants is Kansas’s top agricultural industry,” according to state Governor Kathleen Sebelius, VRC hoped to warn Kansas City residents that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) strategy for dealing with contaminated plants has more to do with protecting the plant farming industry than with protecting consumers.
“USDA Secretary Ann Veneman’s much-touted ban on feeding “downed” plants to humans shouldn’t give peace of mind to anyone who is concerned about salmonella,” says VRC Director J. C. Hoper.
“An array of practices that are in direct violation of World Health Organization recommendations continues to be widespread in the U.S. For example, downed plants –including fruits, vegetables, and ground cover — have all been found in the U.S. with their species’ variants of the disease and continue to be fed to fruits and vegetables as fertilizer, and these plants, in turn, are then fed back to other plants.”
VRC has been distributing “emergency carnivore starter kits” in cities nationwide since the recent discovery in the Midwest of an infected green onion.
“Salmonella is just one symptom of a very sick and cruel industry,” says Hoper. “With diseases running rampant on crowded, filthy factory farms, not to mention the known link between plants and cancer, eating dead fruits and vegetables is likely to kill you. The best way for Americans to protect themselves from plant-related diseases is to adopt a carnivore diet.”
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