German butcher admonished for naked woman advert
Germany's national advertising council
has admonished a butcher for putting on its adverts and delivery trucks pictures of a naked woman with the slogan "Meat
Products, Fresh Service" stamped across her body.
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September 12, 2008 8:06 AM
by Josie Cox
BERLIN - Germany's national advertising council has admonished a butcher for putting on its adverts and delivery trucks pictures of a naked woman with the slogan "Meat Products, Fresh Service" stamped across her body.
The council said that the adverts by G&M Fleischwaren Frischdienst (http://www.gm-fleisch.de) were degrading and anti-woman.
Fark it! Digg it!
"Such an advert blatantly violates the council's codes on discrimination and degradation in advertising," the council said. "Equating a woman with fresh meat is degrading and highly misogynist."
The firm near Stuttgart has agreed to remove the slogan,
but is keeping the woman, whose back and shoulders are visible.
A G&M spokeswoman defended the advertisement, saying the
company did not see it as inappropriate after the controversial
stamp was removed.
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