Sep 2, 2011
Willie Nelson singing “The Scientist” by Coldplay…for Chipotle
In this animated short, Willie Nelson and the animators use the Coldplay song to tell the story of a farmer “going back to the start” after regretting the decision to make his business a factory.
Generally, I’d feel like this sort of thing is tacky and propagandishly manipulative. But it’s Willie, so I’m torn.
What do you think of this kind of stuff?
(via Mashable)
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Obviously the pigs are much happier knowing they will die organically:)
hahahahaha
POIGNANT.
Think it’s great anything that makes people think of the duty they have to the living creatures that supply their food. No need to take every happiness from them along with their bodies just to make corporations richer! Way to go Willie … always loved you and you don’t disappoint here <3
What about the duty we have to delivered cube-shaped pork products to the world’s impoverished?
Yes, we are to feed the hungry, but there are better ways of doing it then simply providing “cube-shaped pork products.”
Well, it was partly meant in jest, but since you brought it up . . .
What is needed is cheap food that is easy to package (on the shipping end) and prepare (on the receiving end). I don’t think there is one simple answer for this. If there is, someone is keeping it a secret.
I love that the message is brought to us by a big-box chain restaurant (ticker symbol CMG, last traded at $309.17/share.) It’s so poignant and epiphanous.
There’s no shame in a company making money. Chipotle uses organic products & treats the animals used for their food humanely. I say way to go all around!
Yep. Good for them. I’m happy to see such a large-scale and widely popular operation successfully building a market for good farming methods. And best of all, their food is yummy!
Willie makes it all okay. Brilliant move by Chipotle.
You gotta respect the pigness of the pig.
I need some country ham…mmmmmmmmmmmm…………
Sweet delicious bacon
My bullshit meter just blew a fuse.
Coldplay? More like “oldplay,” right?!!
Yes it’s manipulative. Those pigs look just like Chipotle burritos. Man that commercial makes me hungry.
wrap them in foil and they are chipotle burritos!
They skipped the step where the pig gets put in the box, just before it’s loaded onto the Chipotle truck
Well, the system that gives us industrialized ag isn’t propagandistically manipulative? And subsidized up the silo with your tax dollars? And breeding immense poisoning, sickness, injury and death to land and people? This isn’t just about giving cute little piggies a happy life and access to advanced degrees and tropical vacations before lovingly slaughtering them. It’s about *how* they’re raised and slaughtered. (I love me some bacon; slaughter away.) You can make fun of this video, but the realities behind it dictate that we lose big time when industrial ag is the only option we have for getting our food.
Actually, this video goes easy on factory farming. It doesn’t depict the filth on the farms and in the processing plant, the pigs living in their own s**t, the oceans of s**t emanating from the farms into the surrounding land and water, the life-threatening conditions for workers in the slaughterhouse…
So I give Willy and the sentimentalism in the video a big pass.
I’m with you. It’s sentimental and silly but the issues are real. And whether it’s for the animal’s sake or for our own, anything living in sewage isn’t healthy. Animals forced to grow faster than they should isn’t healthy for them or us. If this makes more people buy Chipotle, I’d be surprised, but I don’t begrudge them any profits since they’re telling a story many Americans are unaware of.
I heard that if you stack ten pigs on top of each other and only feed the top pig they will all survive….yum.
Right on! With ya all the way on that thought.
The message is a good message. I wish it were that simple to undo.
Fan-FRICKIN-tastic!! Love this so much. Reposted :-)
Ugh. Good rendition though.
Even with Willy, still tacky and manipulative, but smart from a marketing perspective….
This actually speaks to me. I can dig.
being completely cynical, they forgot the step where the farmer stopped making TONS of money from the factory, and because he went back to being organic, he took LOADS of hand-outs from the government to cover the “loss” he makes from not being a factory farm… :-P