Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Meat Industry Anti-Vegetarian Attack Ad?

Vegetarians and Vegans attack and smear meat-eaters and meat producers all the time, covering themselves with blood and so forth, trying to guilt trip people who raise animals for food and attacking people who eat meat with guilt-by-association tactics. So when will meat producers take a page from this same playbook and attack back by fighting fire with fire in a guilt-by-association ad campaign of their own? So here’s an example of how this might be accomplished:

The commercial starts with the headline: “Hitler Was a Vegetarian.” Then we see old historical footage of Hitler making hateful rant-filled speeches and giving the Nazi salute, and then Nazi storm troopers marching and goose-stepping about, some of the horrors of war like bombed-out cities, etc. Then the slogan appears on the screen: “Don’t Be Like Hitler: Eat Meat!”

(Now, this is just a joke, of course! I like to think of ridiculously inappropriate ideas for ads. But it would be similar in tone to some of the attack ads made against the meat industry.)