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Re: Billboard Liberation Front: To Serve Man

Anarchist — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:55:09 -0000

What a retarded protest. There is a demand for inexpensive fast food, Mc Donald's supplies it. What is so wrong about people freely engaging in voluntarism business interactions? Because they are a large business? If they are so successful it's because they've served the marketplace effectively.

Seriously BLF, try a little harder next time, this campaign didn't make any sense.

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Dr. Fester — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:17:15 -0000

...further stigmatize an ironically unseen and under-represented group of people who are discriminated against on a daily basis.

Under-represented?? This is a few months too late, but in case you haven't noticed, obesity is America's #1 health crisis. For every fit 'n' working large person who isn't clogging his arteries, are a hundred who do not eat healthy and do not exercise. The inevitable results are early strokes, heart attacks, and countless other health problems that are taxing our healthcare system that's already on the verge of collapse.

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Hamlet — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:20:00 -0000

What a bunch of liberal frogs you are. Have you no concept that corporations are what drive the American economy. They are the sole reason you are driving your SUV or techno-Honda instead of a buck-board. They provide you your lush lava lamps and bean bag chairs, as well as the beer and pizza youâ€™re so fond of. (Vegetarian pizza for you tree hugging flower sniffers).

Here's a clue, if you don't like McDonalds, DON'T EAT THERE! It's would be liberal activists like you, whose marijuana toking, draft dodging parents decided that Berkley would be the perfect spawning ground to squirt you out. Quit your whining and get a job. Unions need more narrow minded useless bleaters like you.

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Melissa Axel — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:55:12 -0000

any company that is marketing â€œfoodâ€ â€œfor the massesâ€ is screwing somebody somewhere, and probably not just the sometimes-unsuspecting customersâ€¦

but never fear, there are always clever stealth artists with a great sense of humor to remind us in a funny way so you donâ€™t have to listen to me spew intense conspiracy theoryâ€¦

http://www.43things.com/ent...

Re: Billboard Liberation Front: To Serve Man

kiva — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 11:37:31 -0000

Although McDonalds has the right to sell their disgusting low grade food items to an ignorant public, I also feel that it is the right of "educators" to dissuade those aforementioned of the dangers inherent in eating this so called food. It is not a criminal offense to market these awful products, but buyer beware, an artist might just make you think twice before your next Big Mac.

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bdg — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 05:03:15 -0000

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FatBastard — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 04:12:44 -0000

Am I fat? Yes.

Is it my own dam fault? Yes.

Do fatties who whine about "Oh, its an illness! I hold no personal responsability! Give me justice society, and pass the bacon!" deserve to be eaten, by me. Probably not, but Im hungry :D

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Spencer — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 18:05:04 -0000

Too much fun!

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Eric in SF — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 13:36:12 -0000

Great stuff, these billboards.

Here is the first of four billboards, from my flickr.com photostream for those of you who want to see all four.

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w.f. bloxom — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 11:01:12 -0000

what about the misery mcdonalds visits on other species?

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Fat'n'Healthy — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 22:55:20 -0000

As a plus-size person, it's sad that people naturally equate fatness with poor diet, which isn't always the case....or rather, just because someone is thin, that doesn't mean that they eat a healthy diet.

I haven't been to a McDonald's in years. But I'm a big person. I don't eat at fast food restaurants, my idea of "fast food" is to stop at a grocery store and get a turkey and mustard sandwich from the deli counter, which as compared to anything from Micky D's is pretty healthy.

But apparently the BLF wants to demean me and anyone else who looks fat to the general public with fat aliens and fat people being force-fed. I don't object to the message that McDonalds is feeding people unhealthy food, but I DO object to the manner in which this message is being represented.

Fat people deal with more crap from society than I'm sure naturally thin people will ever realize. We are discriminated against for jobs, in classrooms, in restaurants, on airplanes, at health spas (one-size only fits most when it comes to those robes, which is embarrassing and degrading!), and a multitude of other places. Apparently the world believes we are fat because we want to be. But the reality is that many of us didn't choose it: some of us are genetically predisposed to being large, some of us have glandular disorders, some of us are disabled and can't exercise the way other people can (and don't even try to tell me I should pay for a personal trainer or buy fancy workout gadgets, because that's not something I can afford), and a lot of us can't afford fancy diets. And some of us are happy with ourselves, work out regularly (4-6 times a week), eat healthier than the average American, and are still big people.

So before you go out and spread the word that McDonald's is bad in a way that not-so-subtly also screams out that fatness is bad, think long and hard about what it would be like for you to have to suffer the consequences of fat-phobia at your job every day, or by not being able to get health insurance only because of your weight, regardless of how much healthier in general you are than other thin people you know....or how about this: maybe you should think long and hard about how fat-phobia might lead to your pudgy kid getting beaten up every day at school because kids blame him for his subcutaneous layers of baby fat. And think about your teenage daughter developing an eating disorder that might lead to her untimely demise because she was more afraid of being fat than death!

I'm not saying you shouldn't protest McDonald's and their unhealthy food....I'm just saying that there are other ways of doing it that don't further stigmatize an ironically unseen and under-represented group of people who are discriminated against on a daily basis.

Re: Billboard Liberation Front: To Serve Man

Pat at Veggies — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 17:43:08 -0000

The 'Serve Mam' theme is also covered in The Simpson's Halloween Special: Tree House of Horror, in which the family, abducted on an alien spaceship, find e cookbook entitled 'How to cook (for) forty Humans' parodying the 'Twilight Zone' episode called 'To Serve Man.'

... obviously fiction, as it is clearly unlikely that an advanced race would choose to exploit and dominate less powerful species, rather than use their inteligence to makr a better world for all to share ... It would never happen on Star Trek!!!

Re: Billboard Liberation Front: To Serve Man

Gary — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 11:53:14 -0000

You do realize that 'To Serve Man' is the title of a classic sci-fi story ... after the aliens come to earth and save humanity from itself while ending hunger worldwide, a scientist manages to get aboard their spacecraft where he finds a book entitled 'To Serve Man' - turns out, it's an ALIEN COOKBOOK w/ various recipes about how best to COOK AND EAT HUMANS!
"Soylent Green is PEOPLE"!
Loved the idea of modifying billboards, keep it up!
Gary

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ronald — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:27:05 -0000

thought you allmight enjoy these:

VOMIT

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font9a — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:43:27 -0000

the fatter we get the more we want to eat. it's the ultimate biz model.

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josh — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 01:37:11 -0000

that is amazing.

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Ellen S — Tue, 31 May 2005 23:20:58 -0000

To Serve Man... mmmmmm, Soylent Green is people!

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Michael Staub — Tue, 31 May 2005 19:15:45 -0000

Nice photos.

Does Eric have anytrhing to do with this?

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ryan j. — Tue, 31 May 2005 13:59:07 -0000

looks like the cops played their part perfectly. I particularly like the one where the kneeling fatty is behind the police truck and the fire department guy is at the top of the ladder on the billboard. great shots, scott.

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Greg — Tue, 31 May 2005 12:48:55 -0000

Brilliant! A tip o' the cap to BLF for putting Mickey D in a Twilight Zone! [I guess everybody's seen The Twilight Zone episode called "To Serve Man"]

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Brew — Tue, 31 May 2005 12:28:11 -0000

We stumbled on this yesterday on an ill-advised mem day weekend trip down to our nasty neighboorhood Cala Food (which is where the board was) laughed our asses off. Gotta love this city.

It's almost as good as the now defunct "Welcome to the Mission home of authentic tacos and urban blight."

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Genie — Tue, 31 May 2005 10:06:20 -0000

Great way to celebrate Mcdonald's 50th anniversary! This should be happening all over the country (actually the world - I'm sure people in France would gladly take part)!

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steve sitex (oxford uk) — Tue, 31 May 2005 09:01:18 -0000

FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Kenneth Berger — Mon, 30 May 2005 22:50:11 -0000

I saw another billboard along the same theme on Division St. (under 101) near Folsom. I forgot what exactly it said, but my friend and I were definitely laughing. :-)