Anti-meat ads on Chicago Transit Authority's menu

[marmar]

from the Chicago Sun-Times:



Anti-meat ads on CTA's menu
'RATHER MILD IMAGES' | Group wants L riders to think twice

July 18, 2008

BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Staff Reporter [email protected]



They might not be graphic enough to keep a few CTA passengers from sneaking a bite on a hamburger.

Just a little food for thought to force some to think twice about eating meat.

Ads depicting cows, pigs and hens in cramped, dirty cages and gestation quarters are staring CTA commuters in the face as part of Mercy For Animals' two-month anti-meat campaign.

"Our goal is not shock value," said Nathan Runkle, the Chicago-based animal-rights group's executive director. "These really are rather mild images of what happens to farmed animals. We haven't shown the gory slaughterhouse photos that I think people would be even more shocked and appalled by."

So far, Runkle says, he has had a lot of positive response to the 600 "How Much Cruelty Can You Swallow?" ads on the Red, Brown and Blue Line Ls.

But Jay Thomas, who saw the ads Thursday, said she was more convinced to curb her appetite for pork by watching the live slaughter of the pig. The ad "doesn't look really cruel to me," said Thomas, 24. "It just looks like regular farm animals."

Mercy For Animals ran an anti-fur ad campaign on the Red Line two years ago, featuring an image of a baby fox with the tagline, "She needs her fur more than you do."


http://www.suntimes.com/news/transportation/1062438,CST-NWS-meat18.article

[Bob Dobbs]

1. The ability to live in denial about the suffering of sentient beings

grown and mercilessly slaughtered for unhealthy food for lazy humans is the precursor to the ability to live in denial about the suffering of sentient (human) beings mercilessly slaughtered for cheap oil.

Carnivorism is the original sin.