Wednesday, May 6, 2009

“Hogging the Spotlight”

America’s pork producers have launched a new ad campaign in answer to people’s fears brought on by the swine flu. The new slogan is “Pork is safe,” and was chosen over “Pork won’t kill you” or “Swine and Dine.”

Over the false assumption that the flu virus is spread by eating pork, rather than through the air, they came up with “Swine flu from pork? -When pigs fly.”

Just to be on the safe side, however, Joe Biden still won’t ride on a subway with anyone eating a ham sandwich.

The beef industry is taking advantage of the fear to boost their own business, modifying their slogan to, “Beef. It’s what’s for dinner – unless you want swine flu to kill you.”

The poultry industry is afraid to get in the middle of the conflict, perhaps because they’re chicken.

Vegetarians don’t have a slogan because they are too busy rallying for gay marriage.

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