I don't generally see a lot of ads, thanks to AdBlock on the computer
and a RePlayTV unit that automatically skips them when I watch an
occasional show, but between Hulu, the few that get past the RePlay's
filters, and billboards, I can't seem to escape them entirely.
Which
is fine, they are paying for me to have free content, some of them are
entertaining, and every once in a great while actually informative.
But
there are 3 out right now which grate against me so severely that the
only way I'm going to be able to stop ranting in my own head about them
is to rant on the internet.
They are deliberately relying on
consumer's ignorance in order to try to convey a message which simply
isn't there - the facts are technically accurate, but the implication is
actually the exact opposite of reality.
1) The new milk campaign, attempting to discredit soy milk:
They
list a bunch of scary sounding "chemicals" that soy milk contains, to
contrast with cow milk, which according to the ingredient list has only
one ingredient: "milk".
Never mind that the list of scary sounding
chemicals they list consists almost entirely of vitamins and minerals
which are actually quite healthy, or neutral at worst.
So, in the interest of fairness, here are some scary sounding chemicals that are present in cow's milk: