{"id":416,"date":"2003-10-18T16:51:35","date_gmt":"2003-10-19T00:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/10\/18\/protest-advertising\/"},"modified":"2003-10-18T16:51:35","modified_gmt":"2003-10-19T00:51:35","slug":"protest-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Protest Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"

While browsing around at Wired Magazine<\/a> I came across this article<\/a> about MAdGE, a New Zealand group opposed to genetic engineering, and their latest ad campaign revolving around billboards with this picture<\/a> of a woman with four breasts hooked up to a milking machine.<\/p>\n

Alannah Currie, the group’s founder, said she designed the ads to provoke an ethical debate.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The public response has been mixed. MAdGE has gotten some complaints from people who find the billboards offensive.<\/p>\n

“It is definitely degrading to women, but more degrading to women is putting human genes in milk,” Currie said. “It’s punk art.”<\/p>\n

The biotech industry is predictably unhappy about the billboards.<\/p>\n

“MAdGE’s latest grasp for public attention denigrates women and illustrates what little grasp this group has of reality,” said William Rolleston, chairman of the Life Sciences Network, a biotech industry organization for New Zealand and Australia, in a statement.<\/p><\/div>\n

The article and ad both caught my eye, and I was curious as to what Alas readers would think of it. Is the image degrading to women? Is there such a thing as “punk art” that can be degrading in order to promote a cause that the advertiser believes is just? This ad strikes me as being of a different character than the infamous PETA supermodel ads, but I haven’t entirely made my mind up about it and will have to think about it a bit more.<\/p>\n

I don’t want this to turn into a debate about genetic engineering, but I’d like to hear what people think of this ad..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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