About the battery energizer advert..please respond ..

[carole]

Fox-gal first I must tell you I was NOT the person who started this thread, I have continued it here because I could not find the original and I wanted to tell everyone the response I got, I will be honest I have not seen the advert yet, so I am going on what the person who started the thread said ,was it QSA?,

yes perhaps I should see it first, but I am not aware it has been screened here in NZ yet, and if this is the case, my objective is to make sure it is not screened at all, I have complete faith in my American animal lovers who say this is in-appropriate.

I have to say I strongly and respectfully disagree with you, its not making a mountain hill out of an ant hill, and whereas there maybe far worse adverts to tackle, there is nothing wrong with starting at the bottom and working our way up, its complacency like this, that lets these kind of things just go on and on.

In a world with so much violence, cruelty and suffering to both humans and animals, any stance against the potential harm to any animal or human is a good choice IMO, and we with voices have to speak up for those who cannot,if there was a minute chance a young child could come to harm,by some thoughtless advertising, as a mother I would be the first in line to complain, I see no difference between the two, as I am a furbaby mother too.

It may not be considered a worthwhile task in your opinion, but to me and others here it is, if this advert can at least have the cat part deleted I would be more than happy, and I donot see why the company could not compromise here.

Irresponsible advertising needs to be addressed, and if complaining and refusing to buy the product, stops that , then I am all for it.

Yes its good that mum came to the rescue in every case, and your point is that yes we could say to our young children, now see that is a very bad thing to do, but unfortunatley in the real world not every parent is as diligent or caring towards animals, it is still a risk factor IMO, whether it be big or small.

Fox-gal you may prefer to take on bigger and what you see as more important issues, but for now I and many others here would like to challenge this, and I must add I notice that I have not received a quick reply this time to my letter,infact I doubt they will bother at all, but I am not going away.

I am a little disappointed in your attitude Fox-gal, but you are entitled to your opinion, the whole point of the thread is for people who DO consider this important to respond by sending off an email, the more the merrier, I certainly don't want a debate to start as to whether we should be bothered by it or not, otherwise I would have headed the thread as such, however I respect your feelings on the issue, just disagree with them,but regardless of how minimal some people may think this is we shall soldier on, it may be small fish to fry, but I am committed to seeing if indeed we can make a change for the better to this particular advert. Thanks.

P.S I wish to add I have taken the matter a little further by emailing our Television show FAIR GO, they get some marvellous things done, that no-one else can do, and at the moment it is their vote for your favourite advert and worst, so I thought this is a good time to approach them, will let you know when I hear back from them, and Fox-gal I really dragged myself out of bed to do this, I am ill with Bronchitis at the moment, and it is that important to me.