May 24, 2012
A complete protein food — 7 Vintage ads from The American Meat Institute
Here are several ads for meat from the 1940′s that want to make sure you know that meat is good for you — even pre-cooked canned hamburgers.
(via Mom’s Basement, Archie McPhee, Plan59, Jon Williamson, Retroarama, Old Advertising, Kaufmann Mercantile)
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They need to add me to “The Meat Team.” I eat it.
hehehehhehe I am so surprised the first comment isn’t about the Friendly Frank! hehehehe, you would never guess that I actually am not a teenagerXD
So bad! Everyone needs to watch Forks Over Knives: http://www.forksoverknives.com/
sorry, but the human mouth is evolved to be omnivorous, so we’re DESIGNED to eat meat
if we weren’t meant to eat animals, why is meat so tasty???
I used to eat a low fat diet based on grains and beans. I got up to 200 pounds at 5’2″, with borderline high blood pressure — and I had a physical job and was doing five step aerobics classes per week. Turned out my body runs far better on meat and eggs. It’s been 18 years I’ve been eating low carb. Depending on the day I weigh between 145-150 — that’s while flirting with menopause — and my blood work indicates that I’m damned near bullet proof.
Sorry, d, but meat is NOT bad for me.
As a part-time meat cutter, I want one of those hats.
this reminds me of an advertising campaign I worked on about a decade ago for the Meat Marketing Board in the UK – at the bottom it said “meat is a great source of iron, people who need iron include the children, elderly, pregnant women, and vegetarians”… got to love the irony :-D
Some years back, in response to an earnest question from a young man about whether we should, as a species, stop consuming animal flesh, I heard Richard Leakey tell him the just the opposite – mankind has benefited and continues to benefit from eating meat. As an evolutionary scientist, he could not make that recommendation at all. Our challenge is to find humane ways of doing so.
Anyone know where I could get high resolution images of these, or even pay for high quality prints?
Id love to have these up in my kitchen