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PETA Pushes Tesla to Offer Vegan Interior on Model X SUV
NBC Bay Area ^ | 1/14 | Tamara Palmer

Posted on 01/14/2016 2:47:05 PM PST by nickcarraway

A kinder, gentler car has debuted in Palo Alto.

Tesla Motors has made vegan interiors (seats, steering wheels and gear shifts) an option on its new, falcon-winged electric Model X SUV thanks to the urging of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a company shareholder.

"By offering a 100 percent leather-free car, Tesla is pushing its eco-friendly business even further into the future," PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman said in a statement. "PETA can now point to Tesla as a source for top-quality vehicles whose cruelty-free seats are as kind to the environment as its engines are."

New reservations are being accepted for Model X with a $5,000 payment, with estimated vehicle delivery at the end of 2016. According to Fortune, the base price is $80,000.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Travel
KEYWORDS: coal; fools; insanity; peta
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To: twister881

“Lettuce wrap seats?”

Damn, you beat me to it.

I had coco mats in my old VW bus. I wonder if that counts as vegan?


21 posted on 01/14/2016 3:15:14 PM PST by Pelham (Nikki Haley, ethnically cleansing South Carolina for the GOPe)
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To: nickcarraway

Are the Vegans they plan to use for upholstery free range?


22 posted on 01/14/2016 3:16:52 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: nickcarraway
What a hoot!!!!

{^)

Vegans are as stupid as the ruminants they imitate.

I've come to think of the Tesla as "the rich man's Prius."

23 posted on 01/14/2016 3:18:44 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: ctdonath2

One of my old customers has a Tesla Model S. He says it pins him to the seat when he stomps on it, it’s way faster than his Porsche.

He gases it up by plugging it in to a socket in his garage.


24 posted on 01/14/2016 3:19:45 PM PST by Pelham (Nikki Haley, ethnically cleansing South Carolina for the GOPe)
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To: nickcarraway

They never rest, they never sleep, they never give up ....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2296572/PETA-killed-1-600-cats-dogs-Virginia-headquarters-year—90-animals-handed-charitys-American-shelter.html


25 posted on 01/14/2016 3:26:44 PM PST by IWontSubmit
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To: Bryanw92
The "engine" is nothing without the extremely toxic and dangerous battery. The battery is nothing without electricity, which is probably coal, liquid fuel, or nuclear powered. So, if they seats are as kind to the environment as the "engine", then they should make them out of live puppies. (Based on how enviro-socialists describe practical bulk electricity sources.)

YEP!!

The cotton and textiles the vegans wear all come from irrigated, land-gobbling crops. The vegies, fruit, and grain they eat come from irrigated, land-gobbling crops. They argue that a more efficient use of grain used to fed livestock would be to feed it to people instead. People don't have four stomachs that ruminants have to process that lower-quality grain fed to livestock.

Vegans take a heavy toll on the environment. They are extraordinarily wasteful of energy and nutrition.

26 posted on 01/14/2016 3:27:48 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: Slyfox

I think leather would be kinder to the environment than the plastic/vinyl or whatever likely non-biodegradable substance they used to make the seats.


27 posted on 01/14/2016 3:28:59 PM PST by Floratina
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To: Pelham
One of my old customers has a Tesla Model S. He says it pins him to the seat when he stomps on it, it's way faster than his Porsche.

Electric cars have incredible acceleration. They're fun that way!

28 posted on 01/14/2016 3:31:43 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: nickcarraway
Naugahyde, huh?

How many Naugas have to die to outfit this car????!!!!???


29 posted on 01/14/2016 3:31:55 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: nickcarraway

Unfortunately or fortunately, most of us can’t afford one so the point is moot.


30 posted on 01/14/2016 3:40:58 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: Calvin Locke

I faced one of those fools one day. He was racing around on foot in the roadway trying to catch a pigeon with a broken wing causing traffic to swerve around him or come to a stop. He never caught the pigeon but left alive with a memorial to his foolishness in hand. Idiots. Go figure.


31 posted on 01/14/2016 3:43:05 PM PST by chulaivn66 (Oh stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, trusting their words.)
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To: twister881

You stole my idea.


32 posted on 01/14/2016 3:51:19 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: nickcarraway
The heart of the Vegan Tesla?
33 posted on 01/14/2016 4:35:20 PM PST by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patriots are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: nickcarraway

Hasn’t been a car invented that doesn’t collect (dead) bugs on the windshield.


34 posted on 01/14/2016 4:42:41 PM PST by moovova
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To: nickcarraway

I’m not an animal worshiping, vegetarian weirdo. But I’ll praise anything that Elon builds, as long as it’s open source.

All Our Patent Are Belong To You
Elon Musk, CEO June 12, 2014
https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you


35 posted on 01/14/2016 4:43:10 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy," example of today's politico.)
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To: Finny
"Electric cars have incredible acceleration. They're fun that way!"

Yep. It's fun to watch the competitions for acceleration between electric cars and ultralight, gas-powered sports cars.

The Tesla and some of the faster Locost roadsters--quick, indeed, from 0-60 mph.


36 posted on 01/14/2016 4:47:56 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy," example of today's politico.)
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To: nickcarraway

A nice hemp upholstery?


37 posted on 01/14/2016 5:08:39 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Slyfox

Hunting with Honda’s Saturday at 6 on the sportsman channel ..... all new episodes starting February 12th...... < /sarcasm>


38 posted on 01/14/2016 5:42:41 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: twister881

Let us ignore PETA !!


39 posted on 01/14/2016 5:43:49 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Pelham

I have a Leaf. Despite its humility next to the Tesla, it still has crazy fast acceleration.


40 posted on 01/14/2016 5:53:46 PM PST by ctdonath2 (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
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