I had a hard time deciding whether to post this story or the picture at the link as a "caption this"

A butcher in Australia is generating plenty of controversy across social media after literally treating a woman like a piece of meat.

Darren Gerrand of Lancelin in Western Australia, teamed up with photographer Kym Illman to photograph a nude woman lying alongside the meat offerings in his refrigerated display case. In the photo, the model posing is painted with lines indicating where her “flank,” “rib” or “breast” meat is located-- much like cows or chickens on a butcher chart.

Illman explained to Vice that the shoot was the brainchild of both himself and Gerrand, although the model was the one who came up with the idea for the paint lines “after she spotted a poster in the store with beef cuts marked on the cow."

The photo, which was taken in February, was first posted to the town of Lancelin’s official Facebook page last Thursday, where it was deemed “a curious sight.”

Critics, however, are calling the photo offensive and degrading to women, with one local resident claiming she’ll “never support this business again,” and another simply calling it “disgusting.”

On the other hand, many commenters took the opportunity to dissect the message of the photograph, or, in some cases, defend it.

Others merely shared jokes inspired by the post, with one writing that he “never did like parsley,” and another stating that he’d like to order “2 rump, 2 legs and 2 breast” pieces.

Illman has since told Vice that the project was simply “a great social experiment to see how people would react,” but Jasmine Sanders, an online branding expert and the CEO of Acent-cy Online Marketing, thinks it was staged purely for publicity.

Sanders told Fox News she believes the photo was likely “an appeal to get potential customers and media in the store,” and the idea to sell it “as some new social media campaign … probably worked well.”

“This type of branding stunt reminds me of something you would have seen in National Lampoon magazine,” she added.

http://www.foxnews.com/food-dr...cial-experiment.html

Must have been cold in there.

For goodness sakes, her bits are all covered up.

Nbd, imho.

As long as they notified the public of their intent (an art exhibition or commentary) I really don't see any fuss.
But maybe that's just me.

I could be wrong, but I think they have the 'rump' misplaced......

Where is the Filet Mignon?

How much for 5 pounds of..........nevermind.

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Originally posted by 18DAI:
How much for 5 pounds of..........nevermind.

Spit coffee out over that one

There are certain female parts for which I have a particular fondness. But I never thought of buying them separately.

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Jasmine Sanders, an online branding expert and the CEO of Acent-cy Online Marketing, thinks it was staged purely for publicity.

Sanders told Fox News she believes the photo was likely “an appeal to get potential customers and media in the store,” and the idea to sell it “as some new social media campaign … probably worked well.”

“This type of branding stunt reminds me of something you would have seen in National Lampoon magazine,” she added.

Brilliant marketing!

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Originally posted by 18DAI:
How much for 5 pounds of..........nevermind.

Or for a half-pound of parsley, even.

I'll have some sirloin and some... Aw heck, just give me the whole....

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Originally posted by irreverent:
For goodness sakes, her bits are all covered up.

Nbd, imho.

"parsley? Nobody eats parsley"

I've always loved a good sirloin. That looks like grade A!

Boneless sirloin please, if there is a bone in it no thanks!

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
Where is the Filet Mignon?

Inside her, the psoas muscles.

lovely display,

if he is the one that did the markings, he needs to go back into meat cutter school,
since most of the cuts wrong

Looks to be a rather Fit and attractive young woman, wrap he up and I'll take her with me.

BTW, here in the US the Health Inspectors would be pitching an absolute fit.

Arby's roast beef!

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Originally posted by Scooter123:
Looks to be a rather Fit and attractive young woman, wrap he up and I'll take her with me.

BTW, here in the US the Health Inspectors would be pitching an absolute fit.

Ummm Dude "wrap HE up"?!?! Your Freudian slip is showing. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

♫♪♫ U.S. prime, grade A stamped, guaranteed ♪♫♪
♫♪♫ Grease it up and turn on the heat ♪♫♪
♫♪♫ You gotta' throw it down and roll it over once, maybe twice ♪♫♪
♫♪♫ And chow down, and down and down and down ♪♫♪