Of course I went through a vegan period in my life. Didn’t we all? Mine was junior year of college. It lasted from the moment I couldn’t find an unleavened bagel (yeast is ALIVE, people!) for breakfast and went hungry all morning, till the moment I realized lettuce needs bleu cheese dressing on top to taste good at lunch. So…roughly 4 hours of not eating at all. But I do love “vegetarian” food, despite being a meat eater – tofu, tempeh, soy-everything. I am a fan. Plus, vanilla soymilk tastes really good in coffee and cereal so beat THAT, dairy farmers! The Silk ads that feature “Cows for Silk” – cows, cow families, cow roomates, all minding their day-to-day beeswax while dressed in American Eagle clothing and having the ability to talk – are totally weird. Cow heads on human bodies will never sit well with me unless they are an astrological sign I’m not aware of. So thank God the Real California Cheese people have kept it real, like their name implies, and used talking cows on all fours in their commercials. At first I thought these commercials were for the same product- I mean, if the talking Silk cows wear clothes, who is to say they can’t decide to play football in a pasture, too? But they are so not the same – couldn’t be more different! I don’t know which one came first or what the deal is, but something tells me that the “Cows for Silk” campaign vs. the California “Happy Cow” campaign will end in udder tragedy. Oh! Yes! I went there. I just wonder if they are upset that basically they are running the same ads while selling different products. But they might resolve things peacefully too because as you know, to err is human, to forgive is bovine.
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