Want some extra room next time you fly? PCRM's new commercial portrays the new "Sit Next to a Vegan" option that would allow passengers to reserve the seat next to them for a trim and fit vegan for a small fee. Learn more at http://www.PCRM.org.
Ad on Dallas TV Pushes Policy to Help Passengers Avoid Being Squeezed by Overweight Seatmates
WASHINGTON—Want some extra room next time you fly? A new commercial airing this week on Dallas-area TV stations and nationally on the CNN Airport Network portrays the new “Sit Next to a Vegan” option recently proposed to American Airlines. Developed by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, the initiative allows passengers to reserve the seat next to them for a trim and fit vegan for a small fee. The commercial airs March 29 and is also on YouTube.
The ad shows two passengers in the aisle seats of a plane. One chose the “Sit Next to a Vegan” option for a small fee and gets a slim, trim seatmate—no elbow-jousting here. The other, who didn’t, gets squeezed by a more ample neighbor. A narrator explains, “For a small $10 charge, we’ll save you a seat next to a vegan. You’ll have all the room that you want.”
PCRM president Neal Barnard, M.D., has written to cash-strapped American Airlines president Thomas W. Horton, asking the Fort Worth-based airline to launch the “Sit Next to a Vegan” option. Many airlines already ask some obese passengers to pay for a second seat. Now, passengers wary about their space being encroached upon in tiny airline seats would be able to pay a $10 surcharge to reserve the seat next to them for a person following a vegan diet.
“People who skip the meat and cheese tend to be much slimmer,” says Dr. Barnard. “We’re taking a tongue-in-cheek approach to getting the word out, but the epidemic of obesity is no joke. It has brought diabetes and other health problems to a dangerous new level.”
Read more: http://pcrm.org/media/news/sit-next-to-a-vegan-commercial-american-airlines
Ad on Dallas TV Pushes Policy to Help Passengers Avoid Being Squeezed by Overweight Seatmates
WASHINGTON—Want some extra room next time you fly? A new commercial airing this week on Dallas-area TV stations and nationally on the CNN Airport Network portrays the new “Sit Next to a Vegan” option recently proposed to American Airlines. Developed by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, the initiative allows passengers to reserve the seat next to them for a trim and fit vegan for a small fee. The commercial airs March 29 and is also on YouTube.
The ad shows two passengers in the aisle seats of a plane. One chose the “Sit Next to a Vegan” option for a small fee and gets a slim, trim seatmate—no elbow-jousting here. The other, who didn’t, gets squeezed by a more ample neighbor. A narrator explains, “For a small $10 charge, we’ll save you a seat next to a vegan. You’ll have all the room that you want.”
PCRM president Neal Barnard, M.D., has written to cash-strapped American Airlines president Thomas W. Horton, asking the Fort Worth-based airline to launch the “Sit Next to a Vegan” option. Many airlines already ask some obese passengers to pay for a second seat. Now, passengers wary about their space being encroached upon in tiny airline seats would be able to pay a $10 surcharge to reserve the seat next to them for a person following a vegan diet.
“People who skip the meat and cheese tend to be much slimmer,” says Dr. Barnard. “We’re taking a tongue-in-cheek approach to getting the word out, but the epidemic of obesity is no joke. It has brought diabetes and other health problems to a dangerous new level.”
Read more: http://pcrm.org/media/news/sit-next-to-a-vegan-commercial-american-airlines
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