Animal Liberation: Bobby Calf

Animal Liberation: Bobby Calf

Every year 1 million five-day old calves are slaughtered to supply the veal market. Please reconsider your order of veal products.
www.animal-lib.org.au

Advertising Agency: Ideaworks, Australia
Art Director / Copywriter: Kevin Bathman
Photographer: Animal Liberation
Published: January 2008

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Comments

... and eat flies! Yummy!

Visual doesn't say a thing about the idea. Every ad with a brown dirty paper in the background is not great.

..or at least eat them when they get a bit older?!

Grrr, you either don't get the idea, or have a disgusting sense of humor.

Yeah, eat older cows, that's what it says. Truth is, the younger the better it tastes.

Almakos's picture

"bad" for idea and execution

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Actually the fly and the copy underneath are unnecessary. It does not add to the emotional response. It only dilutes, by splitting the attention. Place the calf on the optic center of the page and the copy should read
LIFESPAN:5 DAYS?

(agree with Jaggy- can do without the dirty background)

Lifespan 5 days as in she'll be dead in 5 days? Or is she alive for only 5 days since birth?

NatalieM's picture

The comparison of lifespans is unneccessary. The calf's lifespan alone is enough information to catch a reader's attention.

-Natalie
www.topolewski.net

Shanty Mathew's picture

There's a powerful ad in there somewhere. Anyway, I'm off beef for a while.

"Advertising sucks... ever so gently."