Suicide Food: Animals That Want To Be Eaten
Here's a strange bit of marketing that has always bothered us: Animals that want to be eaten. Reminds us of something from a Douglas Adams book, only not as funny.
Enter the Suicide Food blog, keeping tabs on suicide food logos for all of us. We've noticed a lot of pigs. Editorial bias? Or an insight into some eternal truth? —MEGHANN MARCO
Suicide Food [Via BoingBoing]
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Thank you! This has bothered me fo forever. If someone hands you a gun and tells you to shoot them, that's considered quite messed up, but "please, eat me" is ok? FWIW, It's not just animals getting in on the anthropomorphic assisted suicide solicitation action, it's other food as well, i.e. the M&M mascots.
I went to this website and unless I'm missing something the site condones (or tolerates) the slaughter of born-for-food animals as long as that animal is not depicted on the label? Mmmmk!
According to the website the mass-slaughter of animals that are born-to-be-eaten is OK except if that animal is on the label??? Mmmmk!!!
Bah the site snorked me again sorry.
Humans don't like making a connection between adorable piglets and that nice rack of ribs.
Raising the animals for food is disgusting, but forgetting that we're doing it helps.
This kind of advertising just throws it back in our face.
Bubs BBQ in Western Massachusetts has a sign like that, I always loved passing it on the highway but never did bother to eat the food.
http://www.bubsbbq.com/shirt(large).jpg
@Holden Caulfield: Talk about subconscious I have no idea why I said Snorks. I don't even remember that cartoon. That song rocks though.
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This product is 100% roadkill... the animals were just begging you to eat them anyways..
Why this picture disturbs me:
1. Definitely not kosher
2. The BBQ sauce looks like blood
3. We tend to anthropomorphize our animals, and having a human-like animal begging to be eaten is especially weird
4. As stated before, we really don't like thinking about where our food comes from. I know that I, as a little kid, was shocked to hear about what my meat actually was. When I ponder it I become a vegetarian. I don't need a visual reminder...
Editorial bias towards one animal? Where have I seen that before... :D
Ate there yesterday! Woot!
Did anyone else grow up in the south with Valley Dale commercials on TV. They had a marching band made up of pigs that sang a peppy little song about the company and it's products. I always imagined the marching band leading the rest of the piggies in a big parade into the slaughter house. Very sick stuff if you think about it for more than a minute.
Darn my flickr being blocked at work, but there are flickr groups that hilight this type of signage. Your mission: find the group(s) and link them here!
Marketing campaign aside. No one is forcing you to eat meat. Specifically the people here who are vegetarian.
And yes, meat that is for food. Usually comes from farms that breed animals specifically to be food. Thats the concept of a farm. The animal is born to become eventually food. Having said that, most animal farms do not inhumanely treat their animals or slaughter them that way either. It is just the most effective way of farming meat possible, it is unreasonable and dangerous to assume that we should all hunt for our own meat.
There for. Please do not insist on telling people what they may or may not eat. It is counter productive and counter intuitive. Because as I mentioned at the start. No one is forcing you to eat it. (marketing aside).
Danny's BBQ is so freaking good, it's easy to ignore the suicidal pig.
However, I always have the turkey. YMMV.
What disturbs me more is the recent trend in commercials where the advertised food is portrayed as fleeing for it's life from hungry people. I can't even look at Pop Tarts anymore. Not after the ad where the happy tarts land on the moon, gleeful at finally escaping the clutches of manking only to be gooily eviscerated by aliens.
At least cereal still seems to want to be eaten. Nothing's happier to be consumed wholesale than a neon colored puff of sugar that's punch drunk on milk.
@rugger_can: I completely agree! I grew up in the mountains of VA. I watched my family slaughter and clean pigs,chickens and deer among other things. I have never had a problem knowing where my food comes from. Besides ppl only care about the animals they can put a cute little picture on and assign human emotions to. I am sick of vegetarians bitchin and moaning about meat..you don't like it eat a freakin carrot and shut it. I don't complain when I go somewhere and somebody is eating a tofu burger or drinking soy juice (its not milk its juice milk comes from a breast). Even though I think its nasty and disgusting...
What about those eggo waffles commercials where the dad is trying to steal the waffles from his daughter? And he always winds up getting hurt. Is it a moral lesson? "Don't steal from children" Or is it a cry for help from some disaffected commercial writer....
BTW - the meatrix has you. google it.
it's animals' own fault for being made of meat.
@bluemeep:
Nothing's happier to be consumed wholesale than a neon colored puff of sugar that's punch drunk on milk.
Hysterical. I can't stop laughing.
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Google "Cluckin' Chicken."
One of the funniest SNL commercial parodies in recent memory.