March 18, 2004

PETA = lack of tact

For a while, PETA (not very well known for their tactfulness) has been promoting an ad campaign comparing the plight of animals to Holocaust victims. The ad has been used in a few places here in the U.S., but most of the reports on it's reception have not come from the big news outlets (not surprisingly).

Today, there was a story about how this ad is being received in Germany.

The posters, due to be displayed in Stuttgart from Thursday and in 11 European cities at later dates, show pictures of battery hens packed into cages next to historic pictures of emaciated Jewish inmates in Nazi concentration camp bunk beds.

That's pretty much gone over like a lead balloon there. As it should...

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Did you see they have UNA on their website... it's about Leo, of course, and they posted Robert Potts' phone number for people to call and complain.

Posted by: Mary at March 19, 2004 07:31 AM