Culturalia: Ad Battle
"If he was alive, I think he'd have some big questions about how the ad cheapens our lives ..."Summary
After TheChanges, the line between theri rights and animal rights becomes a contentious subject -- and can occasionally strike a raw nerve. A week after a San Francisco minotaur gets killed by a hit-and-run driver, PETA features a dead minotaur in one of its anti-meat-eating ads, and it touches off a bitter war of words.
Actual Creator
BaxilDragonRelease Date
Nov. 25, 2003Word Count
700Creator Comments
This piece struck a nerve with readers, too. As anexamination of a painful tragedy and the tough moral
questions around it, the news story won a BaMoTTuSto
Reader's Choice award.
Culturalia Data
Type
- News story
Major Focuses
Characters Cited
Piece's Author
- News wire services
Piece's Date
- Mar. 5, 1997
Piece's Setting
- San Francisco, CA, USA
Trivia
- The SFO theri rights group's name is a (not terribly subtle) in-joke. Check its initials.
- Believe it or not, I didn't make the car a Taurus for irony value. It's what I was driving at the time, so it's what came to mind as a random car model. Fate, it seems, occasionally loves a cruel jest.
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http://www.tomorrowlands.org/nov2003b.html#11252003
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