If you ever eat sausage, bacon, or other meat products in Fiji, there's a chance that people in white butcher coats danced with it first. This commercial, which has been making the rounds lately, is full of people who look so darn giddy swaying back and forth with pigs' heads, mixing vats of pink meat paste, and forming sausage tubes. It's a snappy beat, but will probably inspire you to avoid eating meat for a bit. The video, after the jump....
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From an interesting article on Mother Jones by journalist Anna Lenzer, who visited Fiji in an attempt to get the lowdown on Fiji Water outside of the typical press junkets the company normally brings reporters in on: "Shut up!" he snapped. He rifled through my bags, read my notebooks and emails. "I'd hate to see a young lady like you go into a jail full of men," he averred, smiling grimly. "You know what happened to women during the 2000 coup, don't you?"Eventually, it dawned on me that his concern wasn't just with my potentially seditious emails; he was worried that my reporting would taint the Fiji Water brand. [via The Awl]...
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