Charlotte's Web Destroys McDonald's

I've written about the so-called "Center for Consumer Freedom" before. They are a food and restaurant industry lobbyist group, constantly spreading fear about "food activists" trying to take your child's Fourth of July hot dog out of their hands.

Well, this time, apparently, they're freaked out by the promotional campaign for the new movie adaption of Charlotte's Web, for the following reasons - and I quote:

The TV commercial ends with a plea for kids to visit SaveWilbur.com, a Nickelodeon / Paramount website that encourages kids to "Say no to bacon" and print out stickers reading "Tofu Rulez."




Paramount's official website for Charlotte's Web includes "educational links" to animal-rights extremist groups including Farm Sanctuary and the Humane Society of the United States.




Last year, Paramount Pictures hosted a 25th-Anniversary gala for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) on its Hollywood studio lot. (We were there too.)




The Sydney Morning Herald reports that "Paramount Pictures made a 'significant' donation to Animals Australia" after Charlotte's Web was filmed Down Under. Paramount's contribution funded a $500,000 advertising campaign attacking the idea of eating pork. The ads include cookbook-style presentations of "Emotionally Stressed Pork Sausages" and "Traumatised Suckling Piglet."

I love the smell of industry fear. It's so....desparate. The "article" continues:

Of course, Charlotte's Web is a work of fiction. The real world, as author E.B. White's own life attested, is still the real world. (White raised and killed pigs on his own Vermont farm for decades.)

Ha! Caught. What a hypocrite. You got him.

I had no interest in seeing this movie until now, actually.