Some poignant and very clever ethical, animal rights, and environmental ads and posters from Greenpeace, WWF, and many others have been making the rounds in print and on the web of late. Whenever I see a good one I stick it in a drawer thinking that I’ll put it up in a post, but I never get round to it. This morning I looked in that drawer and found it overflowing. After a quick cull (no pun intended), I’ve pulled together what I consider to be the top 20 of the bunch, scaled below in descending order of awesomeness.
Number Twenty
Number Nineteen
Number Eighteen
Number Seventeen
Number Sixteen
Number Fifteen
Number Fourteen
Number Thirteen
Number Twelve
Number Eleven
Number Ten
Number Nine
Number Eight
Number Seven
Number Six
Number Five
Number Four
Number Three
Number Two
Number One
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Andrew Morrison is a west coast boy who studied history and classics at the Universities of Cape Town and Toronto after an adolescence spent riding skateboards and working in restaurants. He is the editor of Scout Magazine, the weekly food and restaurant columnist for the Westender newspaper, a contributor to Vancouver and Western Living magazines, and a proud board member of the Chef’s Table Society of BC. He lives and works by the beach in Vancouver.
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Wow. That bear!
Not a very romantic Valentine’s Day post… 🙁
What a great collection of ads. The skinned bear resonates with me because many of Canada’s black bears are killed so that their fur can be made into hats for England’s Royal Guard. Very sad.
Let’s not forget that these cruelties and injustices are perpetrated on domesticated animals as well as endangered animals. Chickens and cows feel as much pain and suffer just as much as the elephants and whales in these ads.
Also, strangely, WWF supports trophy hunting: “We aren’t opposed at all to trophy hunting and wholeheartedly support the proactive, science-based, in-situ management of plant and animal populations and the sustainable consumptive use of surplus stocks, but oppose canned hunting where animals are specifically bred for hunting outside of natural systems.” source: ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/aj114e/aj114e06.pdf
Perhaps on Valentine’s Day we can share some of our love and compassion with all members of the animal kingdom, from the people living in Vancouver’s DTES to the chimps, dogs, rabbits, and rodents in science labs to the chickens, cows, and pigs headed to the slaughterhouse to the elephants and whales and dolphins in zoos and to the seals on the arctic ice destined to be killed in this year’s seal hunt.
What a cheery morning: Some heavy scenes of our “cost” for being here. I have to say that the greenpeace ads are the most impressive for their telling a story in a picture. The whole pictures speak a thousand words could not be more appropriate. Peace to all living things ( except the ones we are going to EAT)
This post seems a little out of place on a website dedicated to consumption!