Comments on: The Power Of A Pen http://www.vegansoapbox.com/the-power-of-a-pen/ vegan theory, vegan activism, vegan video, vegan food and vegan resources for vegans, vegetarians, animal rights activists, animal liberationists, and abolitionists Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:55:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Jeff http://www.vegansoapbox.com/the-power-of-a-pen/comment-page-1/#comment-2995 Jeff Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:02:12 +0000 http://www.vegansoapbox.com/?p=1509#comment-2995 I'd imagine the majority of us are vegan largely because of one or more articulate and powerful books we've read. John Robbins' Diet for a New America did it for me. I had a question for readers of this blog, and I'm not sure exactly where the appropriate place to post it is, so I'll put it here since it's relevant to the general topic of communicating about veganism/animal rights. I don't watch TV a great deal these days, but I vividly remember a couple of the ads for animal products that I've seen in the past that were notably deceptive about what eating meat entails (animal death and suffering). There were the Charley the Tuna ads where Charley was for some reason eager to have his dead body stuffed into a Starkist Tuna can and eaten by somebody, but mistakenly believed Starkist consumers wanted tuna with good taste rather than tuna that tasted good. Then there were the Ronald McDonald ads where hamburgers grew in a "hamburger patch." So, my question is: I'm trying to locate other examples of such ads (and especially videos of them) as well as any analyses of advertising by the meat and dairy industries from a vegan/animal rights perspective. (Material for a segment on advertising in the psychology classes I teach.) Does anyone know where would be a good place to look? I've struck out so far Googling. I’d imagine the majority of us are vegan largely because of one or more articulate and powerful books we’ve read. John Robbins’ Diet for a New America did it for me.

I had a question for readers of this blog, and I’m not sure exactly where the appropriate place to post it is, so I’ll put it here since it’s relevant to the general topic of communicating about veganism/animal rights. I don’t watch TV a great deal these days, but I vividly remember a couple of the ads for animal products that I’ve seen in the past that were notably deceptive about what eating meat entails (animal death and suffering). There were the Charley the Tuna ads where Charley was for some reason eager to have his dead body stuffed into a Starkist Tuna can and eaten by somebody, but mistakenly believed Starkist consumers wanted tuna with good taste rather than tuna that tasted good. Then there were the Ronald McDonald ads where hamburgers grew in a “hamburger patch.”

So, my question is: I’m trying to locate other examples of such ads (and especially videos of them) as well as any analyses of advertising by the meat and dairy industries from a vegan/animal rights perspective. (Material for a segment on advertising in the psychology classes I teach.) Does anyone know where would be a good place to look? I’ve struck out so far Googling.

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