Denny’s Promotes Vegan Morrissey’s Concert with Free Hamburgers
October 23, 2009
Talk about tone-deaf, ham-fisted marketing: somehow, Denny’s thought it would be a good idea to promote the very vegan Morrissey’s West Coast concert with free hamburgers. Cue Morrissey’s head spinning like the Exorcist in 3…2…1…
From Ecorazzi:
On recent ticket orders for Morrissey’s upcoming west coast gig,Ticketmaster has allowed Denny’s to run a cross promotion offering a free hamburger. Why isn’t this okay? Only because Morrissey is one of the most outspoken vegetarian celebs ever!
Earlier this year, Morrissey banned all food that “used to have a face” from his concert hall and even walked off stage once because he was annoyed with the meaty smell from the crowd.
No word yet on if Morrissey knows about this promotion, but we’re pretty sure he’s going to FLIP when he does.
Hellooooo, Denny’s/Ticketmaster: this is the man who wrote the song Meat is Murder!
Apparently the company is promoting something it calls a ‘Better Burger’, which is suppossedly higher quality than the meat that it usually offers, and one of the choices is a Boca Burger. So, why not target that marketing a little better and push the Boca Burger? Vegetarians have drunken late-night cravings too.
Lame advertising + missed opportunity = FAIL.
Link [Ecorazzi]
“Our Daily Bread” Shows Where Food Really Comes From
February 16, 2009
Check out this disturbing clip from the Sundance Channel documentary film “Our Daily Bread” created by Nikolaus Geyrhalter. The film takes a look at animals, slaughterhouses and factories in order to clue consumers in to what goes on behind the scenes to make our pre-packaged foods.
As the Sundance channel website states,
With dispassionate objectivity, Austrian documentary filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter lifts the veil on modern industrial food production to present a glimpse of a world few of us have ever seen – or are willing to think about. Avoiding conventional narrative techniques, Geyrhalter lets the images speak for themselves. The result is a coldly beautiful and often disturbing visual essay illustrating what goes on in slaughterhouses, manufacturing plants and large dusty fields to process and package our food.
