It was a weird idea for a photo shoot, but this show isn't really turning out actual top models and is a joke. Ignoring it is the best policy. I seriously doubt anyone watching felt motivated to go eat greater quantities of meat because of it.

Posted by: mabel | March 13, 2008 05:02 PM

totally discusting I'm sending a letter !!

Posted by: Steven | March 13, 2008 05:29 PM

I cannot imagine for a second how this is supposed to be glamorous.

Posted by: Margarita | March 13, 2008 05:45 PM

wow! I almost don't know what to say about this! I'm assuming this was FOR animals. I didn't see this, so I don't know. I hope it was like when Janice Dickinson got her models involved with a (PETA)protest against fur. But I definitely agree...flesh from a tortured animal is flesh from a tortured animal.

Posted by: Pamela Oates | March 13, 2008 06:18 PM

I was so disgusted by that episode. I have watched almost every ANTM episode (guilty pleasure) but I just can't watch it anymore after this. I "almost" boycotted the show after finding out covergirl tests on animals but this was the last straw. I am wondering if this is why Twiggy left the pannel? She seems like an animal lover (did i hear that somewhere of just a guess?).
What a waste, and not a word about the welfare of animals.

Posted by: Lauren Truscott | March 13, 2008 07:26 PM

I watched this episode and pretty much threw up all over myself. It's funny how there pulling this crap while Twiggy isn't there anymore..I wonder what she would've thought of this horrendous idea. It was tasteless, tactless and vomit inducing; pretty much the whole fashion industry as a whole (the ones that still use fur and leather that is)

Posted by: Courtney | March 13, 2008 08:56 PM

Thank you! I was thinking about this when I watched it last night. I was actually shocked that no one spoke up and pointed out the insanity here. But I guess if people eat meat and wear leather, this isn't much different. I found it very disturbing though.

Posted by: Saeran | March 13, 2008 10:40 PM

I saw this episode and was so grossed out that I literally had to stop watching.

Posted by: Canaduck | March 14, 2008 01:25 AM

I did not see that .i hate those shows a lot.is very sad to read it this is a very sick world we are living in .It only shows how ugly this womans truly are inside their selfish black heart.they all clearly lack compassion towards animals i wish someone cut their flesh and wear it.that will be AWESOME.THEY CAN GO TO HELL .

Posted by: Rose Corletto. | March 14, 2008 01:47 AM

I did see that and it was very disturbing. The picture that Tyra had taken of herself was just sad. Perhaps she has so much going on that she has run out of ideas and cannot think clearly? Maybe that's why she did such an irresponsible episode?

Posted by: Shelley Vorenkamp | March 14, 2008 01:56 AM

Oh TYRA!
You won't wear fur, so instead you make others drape themselves in flesh? you are a FRAUD!

Posted by: Lee | March 14, 2008 06:01 AM

I am very surprised that Nigal the Phtographer let this happen, he is very involved in saving harp seals. I actually stopped watching that show when I found out that Cover Girl test's on Animals but I can't even imagine how discusting it was, What a joke!!

Posted by: Theresa Lopez | March 14, 2008 08:07 AM

I hope they sanitized themselves thoroughly. Even the smallest amount of raw meat, left untouched or cleaned, can cause contamination of the body leading to disease.

It seems like a waste of life on both sides - all for higher ratings.

Folks the times of idiocrocy have long arrived.

Posted by: Eric Silberstein | March 14, 2008 09:00 AM

This show lost both of my daughters after this episode. I have never watched. They are trying to make it controversial to drum up more viewers I guess. How pathetic. Too bad they can't be a success on the merit of it just being a worthy show. Of course, to me, they are all a bunch of morons anyway. Even if I ate meat; what is the point? Seriously stupid.

Posted by: Lori | March 14, 2008 09:03 AM

This show was appalling! Women wearing dead carcasses should not count as fashion in anyone's books. I myself have decided to boycott ANTM as a consequence of their ill-concieved show idea. Where can I send a letter vocalizing my disgust???

Posted by: Mary Ellen Skinner | March 14, 2008 10:22 AM

This show is truly sickening.

PETA's response is right-on. This is a violent industry that should be rejected by all who value compassion, equality, and respect.

Posted by: Brandon Becker | March 14, 2008 10:56 AM

ew, seriously? Man I am glad I never watch that show....so um Jack, America's Next Top Model? Doesnt seem like a very guyish show to watch.

Posted by: Sarah | March 14, 2008 11:28 AM

Alot of people turn a blind eye to the atrocities happening to the animals raised for meat. So this may turn out to be a good thing. I personally do not watch the show but alot of people I heard are talking about it and are grossed out and turned off from "meat". Growing up my mom would try to get me to eat meat and say the chicken was made from flour and water and it wasn't from a actual "chicken".

Posted by: Carla | March 14, 2008 12:11 PM

I'm speechless. My only hope is that everybody who viewed that episode is now as horrified by the meat industry as I am. Those poor animals died to be disposable panties for a bunch of idiot wannabe models. Do these girls have any values or brains? Obviously not. Not one of the airheads even questioned it. Somebody should skin them alive and put them out of their misery.

Posted by: Lindsay Thomas | March 14, 2008 01:03 PM

I stopped watching before this happened, simply because it's TIRED. They're obviously trying too hard now...this show's done and they need to cancel it.

Posted by: BullyDawg | March 14, 2008 01:30 PM

You know, when I saw that they would be doing a shoot in a meat packing plant, I thought it would be for the sake of expanding the knowledge of abuse in slaughter houses. It's really to bad that they went the direction they did.

Posted by: Joan | March 14, 2008 02:02 PM

This episode seriously disgusted me. I couldn't understand the logic behind the photoshot and it made me want to lose my lunch. I will be sending a letter to Ms. Tyra Banks. Thanks so much for all you do.

Posted by: Giullia Cossano | March 14, 2008 04:45 PM

ew, seriously? Man I am glad I never watch that show....so um Jack, America's Next Top Model? Doesnt seem like a very guyish show to watch.

ignorance is also murder.

Posted by: krist | March 14, 2008 05:44 PM

Please contact The CW to share your thoughts. There is no excuse for this.

Dawn Ostroff, President
CW Network
11800 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 575-7000

Posted by: Nicci | March 14, 2008 09:55 PM

I was completely appalled as soon as I saw it today. I knew to come to this site to see what can be done. I will send a letter but if you guys let me know of anything else that PETA is thinking of doing, I will join!

Posted by: Juan del Hierro | March 14, 2008 11:28 PM

I guess they had to top the show where the models posed among real homeless people.

I think it might have worked.

Posted by: Tamara | March 15, 2008 12:16 AM

Abunch of whores dressed in meat, do they have any idea how that meat came to be? What that meat went through?
Do the whores no how much cruelty that meat went through.
NO they don't because the are stupid old whores...
Peace!

Posted by: Judith, Freedom Fighter for Animals | March 15, 2008 02:09 PM

i have been watching antm for a really long time and when i saw that my heart sank ! i just kept hoping that someone would refuse to do it. but no one did. its amazing some of the girls freak when they have to do a nude photoshoot or with a snake or whatever but they can prance around in a dead animal ! that doesnt make sense to me

Posted by: kayla | March 15, 2008 05:15 PM

I do have to say that i watch the show but when i saw what tyra was making these girls wear i thought it was disgusting and tasteless.

Posted by: Maria | March 15, 2008 07:45 PM

Tyra,
why oh why did you do that. I was a big fan but that really disapointed me. You wont wear fur, but you will wear make up from companies that animal test, you let your models wear meat from tortured animals, but oh ya you went green last segment right, well if thats the case mabey someone should remind you that animals are part of this world to, and takeing care of them takes care of the world to.

Posted by: Elizaebth Sandoval | March 16, 2008 01:12 AM

It was pretty gross--but no worse than having models wear leather or feathers or down. Maybe this will help some viewers make the connection between killing animals for meat/fur/leather etc.

Posted by: Kelley | March 17, 2008 02:49 PM

My 16-year old daughter and I were totally disgusted by this episode. I have always thought the show is rather tacky but I do like to watch some of the shows which my daughter chooses. However, after seeing this episode I will boycott the show - unless I hear that ANTM has made a public apology. By the way, I tried to call the phone number listed above but didn't really get through to anyone - there is a voice mail which gives no direction for leaving a message. Does anyone know of a valid phone number which can be used to contact the network?

Posted by: Sara Venney | March 17, 2008 05:22 PM

This episode was disgusting! I was a loyal viewer of America's Next Top Model and because of this episode I will never watch it again. I also sent an e-mail voicing my dissapointment with this situation.

Posted by: Kelly | March 17, 2008 07:41 PM

yeah i was kinda weirded out when i saw that.

Posted by: Melissa Vigna | March 18, 2008 11:18 AM

While watching the episode in question show I saw the preview of what was coming. I deleted the partially viewed episode from my Tivo & cancelled any future scheduled recordings of America's Next Top Model. I will no longer watch any show associated with Tyra Banks & I am terribly dissapointed in her. Wearing bloody carcasses is not fashionable; it's pathetic, cruel & disgusting.

Posted by: Lisa | March 18, 2008 12:47 PM

It's right there before their eyes, these slaughtered innocent lives, and the models remain unmoved. This deadening of the senses starts so early in life.

Posted by: lynda downie | March 19, 2008 01:46 AM

I sent an email to CWTV with the following comment: "I feel compelled to share with you the overwhelming disappointment I experienced while watching the episode of America's Next Top Model where models wore raw meat sewn together. I actually had to look away as my daughter continued to watch, it was so repulsive. As a society, it is perfectly acceptable to kill animals for food and nutrition, but to take the life of an animal for purposes of vanity and commerialism is morally wrong. I am shocked that no one on the show saw a problem with the image this projected, it wasn't sexy, it was wasteful, cruel and entirely in poor taste. Does the show have a moral compass? Will models start posing with cigarettes and guns next? Where do you draw the line? Tyra is an influential female role model, but I am disgusted that she approved of slabbing raw meat on models for a photo shoot. Don't you think that meat could have been put to better use? Perhaps donating it to homeless shelters, etc. It is unfortunate, but our family will need to boycott this show until a public apology for airing such an insensitive use of meat is issued."

Although I am a vegetarian, I did not write my comment from a vegetarian point of view, I wanted to send a mainstream perception that what they did would disturb anyone, even meat eaters.

Posted by: Tama Becker-Varano | March 27, 2008 01:48 PM