Written by PETA
The Top Model shows are supposed to be about wannabe models crushing the competition, not animals. So why, then, would an ad for New Zealand's Next Top Model include footage of a woman in red heels stomping on a bleating stuffed lamb? The commercial is creepily reminiscent of "crush videos"—sick fetish films in which women in high heels stomp on real animals. Crush videos are so disturbing that Congress recently passed a law banning them. Under the law, anyone deranged enough to possess one of the videos can be sentenced to up to seven years in prison.
The ad has New Zealanders in a frenzy: The New Zealand Advertising Standards Authority has been swamped with angry phone calls, but since the commercial aired in Australia, not New Zealand, the authority can't do anything about it. Now animal advocates are calling on Australia's Network Ten, which aired the disturbing ad, to pull it off the air and apologize.
New Zealand's Next Top Model should take a clue from Project Runway and "make it work" without hurting animals—or even pretending to.
Written by Michelle Sherrow
WHAT THE HELL WHY WOULD ANYONE LIKE WOMAN THAT STOMP ON ANIMALS, DOES IT MAKE THEM SEEM COOL OR SOMETHING????
So sick...what the hell is wrong with these people! Effin' lunatics!
I hate fashion. It makes people become superficial and hungry for fame and money; ambition dicimates Earth's resources and animals' dignity. Besides the fact that get dress like all the others is a deep lack of originality.
I'm glad they banned showing stupid ads like those to show the world.It just sickens me someone "faking" stepping on a poor lamb.What morons, they knew that they were gonna get bad calls from angry people.Stand up for what's right!!!!
Dont you think that this is just a little bit too precious.Someone standing on a stuffed lamb is not worth the outrage that you are directing towards it. I say focus on some real cruelty instead of this nonsense.
That is disgusting because they're using crush videos as their inspiration for their ad. That's really sick.
Why would anyone do this kind of thing in the first place? Even if it resembles cruelty, it shouldn't be put out there. What, did they think that because it was a toy that nobody would be offended? Get real!
this is cruel...they were stepping on an animal that youst to be alive!!! who would do such a thing...this is totally rude!!!! they should make models be animal friendly since that what the world id chyanging into!!! hmmph!!!
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