{"id":11577,"date":"2013-01-31T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/01\/31\/taco-bell-pulls-super-bowl-ad-making-fun-of-veggie-eaters-after-veggie-eaters-complain\/"},"modified":"2013-01-31T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T12:00:00","slug":"taco-bell-pulls-super-bowl-ad-making-fun-of-veggie-eaters-after-veggie-eaters-complain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/01\/31\/taco-bell-pulls-super-bowl-ad-making-fun-of-veggie-eaters-after-veggie-eaters-complain\/","title":{"rendered":"Taco Bell Pulls Super Bowl Ad Making Fun of Veggie Eaters After Veggie Eaters Complain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5980153\/taco-bell-pulls-super-bowl-ad-making-fun-of-veggie-eaters-after-veggie-eaters-complain?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_twitter&#038;utm_source=gawker_twitter&#038;utm_medium=socialflow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED STATES, January 2013 (gawker.com): A Taco Bell ad chastising party-poopers who bring veggie platters to Game Day has been pulled following a Twitter campaign launched by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Veggies on game day is like punting on fourth and one &#8212; it&#8217;s a cop out,&#8221; the ad&#8217;s narrator sneers, before touting Taco Bell&#8217;s Taco 12 Pack as a &#8220;Game Day tradition&#8221; (despite having just &#8220;introduced&#8221; it seconds earlier).<\/p>\n<p>Concerned that the commercial might &#8220;discourage people from eating vegetables,&#8221; CSPI asked veggie lovers to tweet their complaints at Taco Bell, and the company eventually decided to pull the ad off the air. CSPI released a statement thanking Taco Bell &#8220;for responding with record speed to address nutritionists&#8217; and consumers&#8217; concern.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source UNITED STATES, January 2013 (gawker.com): A Taco Bell ad chastising party-poopers who bring veggie platters to Game Day has,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}