04.20.12
How not to do publicity
Unintentional hilarity, furnished by a couple of people to rebut the charges that have destroyed the market for pink slime.
Click on the top video clip. It’s stunning in its inadequacy.
Wherever did they get the idea to hire some fat agricultural scientist, someone who looks like he could cut down on the beef a bit, as an explainer? Worse, he speaks in a monotone.
Whatever money spent, down the drain, into the centrifuge, or the grinder …
Finally, at the end — another intrinsically unlikeable person, this time a woman, trying to sell the idea that the junking of pink slime hurts the environment.
You probably won’t get all the way there. Virtually unwatchable at any speed. I jumped on the whole thing so you don’t have to. Two minutes is more than enough.