Even though we’re Canucks here at Enviralment, we like to take time to acknowledge all our fans south of the boarder. Being that it’s American Thanksgiving, here’s a great little ad from PETA to honor the American Holiday.
“Mmmmmm, save the neck for me Clark.”
PETA being the publicity mongers they are, created this ad and intended to run it on NBC during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. NBC wanted the stats to back up the claims about conditions in factory farms, which were answered by this opinion piece in the New York Times. NBC decided “this commercial does not meet NBC Universal standards” and declined to run it. God forbid they air a commercial with any truth to it.
More info on PETA’s blog.
I’m entirely supportive of truth in advertising, but I just can’t get behind the whole vegan thing. If that’s what blows your skirt up then more power to you, but in my opinion there are few things better than mouth watering med-rare steak.
Whether the aim of this ad was to actually get people to go vegan or if it was simply to be created – knowing that it would be rejected – and then pick up on the publicity from that, remains to be seen.
I think this would have been a stellar ad if at the end the super flashed “Go organic” rather than “go vegan”.
Whatever their pompous goal was it’s nice to see them actually hit the mark for once and not just have ads with People Exposing Tits & Ass.
See what I did there?
P-eople
E-xposing
T-its
A-ss
God my cleverness is astounding at times.
EDITORS NOTE: it actually took me about 30 min to come up with that little gem as well as read the wiki page on acronyms.
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