AFLAC Ad Promotes Animal Abuse in New Commercial. Please Protest!

Tuesday night (yesterday) on MSNBC's Anderson Cooper 360, an Aflac ad aired that makes a comedy out of their famous duck being injured multiple times at a barbecue in which a chicken is being roasted. To watch it:

http://www.aflac.com/individuals/default.aspx

To read the Aflac press release and protest:
Aflac Duck Feels the Heat in New TV Commercial
http://www.aflac.com/aboutaflac/pressroom/pressreleasestory.aspx?rid=1460067

Media Contacts from the press release:

Laura Kane
Aflac Incorporated
706.593.0786
lkane@aflac.com

Jon A. Sullivan
Aflac Incorporated
706.573.7610
jsullivan@aflac.com

Analyst and Investment Contact:
Kenneth S. Janke Jr.
Aflac Incorporated
1.800.235.2667, Option 3 Fax: 706.324.6330
kjanke@aflac.com

UPC thanks Kim Bartlett, President of Animal People, for alerting us about this ad. www.animalpeoplenews.org/.