Miracle Whip does just that with their new ad campaign. Its tagline:
"Bad news for turkeys; good news for you." One of their commercials portrays a couple of turkeys disguised as grocery stockers, and pricing the Miracle Whip at $1,000 a jar in an effort to prevent people from buying it, thereby lowering the amount of turkey consumption, because everybody knows you just can't eat a turkey sandwich without Miracle Whip.
I don't know about you, but that makes me never want to eat another turkey sandwich again so long as I live. It makes me just want to take those little turkeys in my arms, and say,
"It's ok, little turkey. I won't eat you." I have a similar reaction every time I see a
Chick-Fil-A billboard featuring bovine prodigies encouraging the world to
"Eat Mor Chikin," and every time I see a BBQ joint with a pig as its mascot. Have our sensitivities really become that dulled?
(That pig looks way too happy for a pig who's about to have his ribs barbequed. And what's that chef's hat all about?)
It is common in Asian cultures to honor the chicken for all that it offers humans in terms of nourishment. They hold solemn ceremonies. We form ad campaigns waging war between the chicken and cow to see which can be eaten less.
Sadly, we don't just limit our barbarism to animals, either.
Witness the jubliant little chocolate chip cookie, so pleased to finally be invited to a party with people, only to find out he's not a guest; he's dessert. Granted, cookies aren't meat, but it's still a barbaric example of how we're no longer troubled by the idea of eating living things with unique personalities.
Maybe I'm uptight, but I just don't like getting to know my food before I eat it. If meat weren't so damn good, I'd do without it. In fact, I'd give almost anything to be a vegetarian. Anything, it seems, except for meat.
I am making great strides, though. I've recently discovered that there is a salad I can eat. I have long been anti-salad because of my distaste for lettuce, but a recipe for a Strawberry Spinach Salad has me seeing leafy greens in a whole new light.
Here's the recipe:
Dressing 1 cup sugar
1 1/2 Tbs. minced garlic
3/4 tsp. paprika
1 cup canola oil
6 oz. red vinegar (add more if desired)
3/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. white pepper ( I always use black pepper)
Mix together in plastic container with lid. Shake well. Keep at room temperature 'til used.
Salad 1/4 cup toasted walnuts or almonds (I use almonds)
Sliced strawberries (use as much or as little as you want)
4 cups Baby Spinach
Crumbled bleu cheese if desired
If anybody has any footage of strawberries and/or spinach leaves being anthropomorphized, please, by all means, keep it to yourself.
From QuoteGarden.com:
Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family. ~Berke Breathed, Bloom County Babylon
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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