A Humanitarian Lion supporter produced a video riffing off Burger King’s Whopper Virgins campaign, where documentarians engage Third World inhabitants in hamburger taste tests — and incidentally pop their hamburger-free cherries.
Unlike Burger King’s ad footage, which makes backwater village life look exotic and friendly, the pro-Humanitarian Lion video uses images of abject poverty to illustrate “Whopper Virgins,” followed by Nike Virgins, Playstation Virgins, Perrier Virgins and Human Rights Virgins.
The push point: “Millions of people cannot enjoy the world. Why not use our creativity and power to help them once a year?” A link to the Humanitarian Lion website wraps it up.
Poignant if lengthy. If nothing else, it illustrates the crassness of imposing Whoppers and Big Macs on people with bigger voids to fill.
