Advertising

INTRO

The Earth dying, people dying, animals dying, forests dying, the ocean dying…. why are people not informed that the animal industries are giant contributors to each and every one of those stated? I’ll give you one word for that answer….Advertising. Ok, two words. Advertising and Money.

After learning all the facts about veganism, I was absolutely bewildered! I just couldn’t understand why the heck I had never even heard these things before. Then I watched What the Health. I learned that the meat, dairy and egg industries are all owned by the government. Why is this important you ask? Wellllll, think about it, the government is very powerful (obviously), so basically they will do anything to keep negative words from spreading from person to person, and preventing disruption in the industry. (After all it is worth around 1.5 trillion dollars.)

Money

In one year alone, this industry (I am saying industry a lot, I know) spends 557 MILLION dollars promoting meat and dairy. In schools, 50 million dollars is spent promoting milk products to kids so they will essentially be consumers for life. In fact, (this is shaaddyyy) some of your tax money, whether you are consumer or not, goes straight to the industry so that the prices can be lowered, so more people will buy it.

Tobacco or Meat?

This enormous industry uses basically the same exact advertising as the tobacco industry. Think about it…. cigarettes were advertised using athletes; meat is also advertised using athletes and sports saying things like its “what a MAN eats.” Also, neither were/are said to be unhealthy, which in both cases is completely wrong. (Don’t get me wrong, meat does have protein but… just read my Health section.) It is just a mirror image of the tobacco advertisements. (Come on people!!)

Disruption of Profits.

Let’s get into the even more maddening stuff. Such is the fact that vegan activists can be charged with a criminal record for terrorism, just by disrupting the profit of the meat, dairy and egg industries (peacefully might I say) https://plantbasednews.org/news/9-vegan-activists-arrested-waitrose-animal-rights-protest/. In fact, hundreds of activists have been put in prison because of exposing this information, and some have actually been killed.

Is this why there is a breast cancer ribbon on my yogurt?!

The answer to that question is Y-E-S!! It is because of…. you can guess, advertising. Also, a new for you…. sponsorship. If you want to really know exactly why there is a pink ribbon on your sugary yogurt it is because, The American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association, and and the American Heart Association’s biggest sponsors are all meat, dairy and egg producers. For example, the American Cancer Society is sponsored by Yoplait yogurt hence the pink ribbons, even though dairy is one of the leading causes of breast cancer. (Ironic, right?)

On their websites there are many foods, that correlate to the causation of Cancer, Diabetes, Heart disease etc. For Pete’s sake, on the healthy food list there is bacon wrapped shrimp!!! Not promoting things like this could result in them losing thousands of dollars from sponsors (and people who get their disease from eating their suggested foods).

Conclusion

Hopefully after that long article, you probably at least know a little more about why you have been left in the dark about these issues. I know how hard it sometimes is to believe a lot of things that correlate to veganism, and I hope some of those facts are a little easier to believe now that you know the dark truth of advertising. Thank you so much for reading, it does mean a lot. 😁 To learn more, watch https://www.whatthehealthfilm.com/, the amazing documentary that I got basically all of these facts from.