For those of you haven't seen it yet, it can be viewed here:

http://tinyurl.com/zrgwmnr

Advertising usually annoys me, but this ad is very well made and extremely funny. However, it is offensive to vegans and because vegans are sanctimonious whingers, rather than just not watch it they've decided that nobody else should be able to watch it either.

This is an own goal on three counts:
1) The vegans have annoyed me so much that for the first time ever I'll be making a special effort to eat lamb on Australia day. Good work vegans. If you'd just kept your mouths shut, there might be one more cute little baby sheep frolicking around his paddock instead of ending up on my plate.
2) The complaints centred on the fact that the ad is discriminatory. Watching the ad didn't make like or dislike vegans any more than I did before - watching them calling for it to be censored because they personally don't find it funny really annoyed me, and now I dislike them even more than before. Good work vegans. And you wonder why people ridicule you... (I'll give you a clue: it's got more to do with your whingeing than your diet).
3) All the controversy has drawn extra attention to the ad that wouldn't have been drawn if the vegans had sufficient sense of humour to realise it was a joke, and not an incitement of violence against vegans. Good work vegans. If you'd kept your idiot mouths shut, fewer people would be aware of the ad.

If only vegans had slightly thicker skins and some semblance of a sense of humour there'd be less contempt for them and this advertising campaign wouldn't be as successful. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

Well said, Toni; if the vegans had their way there would be less happiness in the world; lambs gamboling in their fields are, or appear to be, happy, if the vegans had their way less lambs would be bred for the table and thus there would be fewer lambs to be happy, therefore less happiness.
The happy lambs have no idea that they will be killed so their anguish, if felt, is far less in sum than their previous happiness, so happiness wins out, despite the vegans.

It's a wonder that vegans have the energy to protest, given their diet.

...........a true story......My much loved fantastic neighbour is a vegan. Over the year’s mail articles have ended up in my mail box, our postie is cross eyed. From her mail I find she supports a plethora of save the wildlife and the environment organizations.

But she sits on a custom made leather lounge. She wears leather boots and coats in winter. She uses a smoky wood fuel combustion heater and her house is lit up like a Xmas tree 365 days a year............but god forbid you offer her an animal product to eat, she looks at you like you have just put to death her first born............lolololol.

Love this year’s ad............

Years ago, I looked into veganism because it seemed like an ethical way to live. I read some of their literature to see what they had to say and it didn’t take long for me to spot a lot of contradictions in their philosophy (such as the one Is Mise points out). But what bugged me the most was the dishonesty, like waving the thoroughly discredited China study around as scientific support for their diets.

I gave a vegan diet a good go for a month anyway just to see if I felt better on it, and initially I did (probably because it forced me to consume more nutritious foods). But as time went on, I slowly became more and more foggy-headed until it got to the point where intersections became too confusing for me while driving and I wouldn’t know what to do. This despite following their advice on getting a balanced vegan diet. I also developed an insatiable craving for meat and eggs to the point where that’s all my foggy head could think about.

Clearly some are more suited to vegan diets than others, and there seems to be a link between this and smugness.

Veganism is an emotionally charged philosophy in which one starts with the conclusion and then cherry-picks data to fit that conclusion. Their philosophy can be summed up by the phrase you’ll often hear from them, “Animals are not here for us to use and abuse.” The problem with this is that they’re not here for any reason, and they’re not not here for any reason either (pardon the double negative). They’re just here.

My mother-in-law has a bunch of happy free-range chickens on an acre of land that provide us all with an abundance of eggs. I can’t for the life of me see how this situation is immoral.

Freedom of speech should be Number One every time. If Australia Day should be about anything it should be about protecting the precious freedoms enjoyed, that were fought for in wars liberating peoples in Europe and elsewhere.

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At first one might wonder why leftists who whinge about everything but a free handout from the taxpayer and usually include farmers and the meat and livestock industry as targets would be dissing their usual joined-at-the-hip running mates the 'vegans'.

However things are a little more complicated than the leftists make out and of course the leftists haven't had an 'ah hah' moment and come to their senses.

What is going on is that on the leftists are hiding the main problem: they are upset that the animal rights outfits (not 'just' 'vegans') are apparently running a reverse advertisement with footage of alleged Islamic ritual slaughter without stunning.

Now it just so happens that there could be some truth in what the animal rights activists are saying, because there still is ritual slaughter of sheep in Australia without stunning at all. Although the lawful inadequate stunning is also reprehensible as far as most Australians are concerned.

Just another example (as if one is needed) of leftist 'Progressives' and their hierarchy of priorities, where multiculturalism and the 'endless-diversity-Australia-has-to-have' must come close to No1 as far as they are concerned.

Political Correctness is turning around to bite the pear-shaped (pun intended) leftists on their posteriors.

Enjoy those lamb chops, but don't imagine for a moment that the leftists have suddenly seen a glimmer of sense (or reality), because they haven't. It is still the same old, same old, from them and the BS Detector is always red-lining whenever they are about.