Good question! When I was a kid, my mother explained to me that
commercials never mentioned the competition in their ads because
they didn't want you to be thinking about the competitors, but
only about them. I don't know if that was the real reason, but it
made sense to me at the time. Maybe some marketing people found
out that it didn't hurt business after all, to mention the
competition if you made sure to say that your brand was better
for X, Y and Z reasons. They probably figured that out by watching
how political campaigns are run. :)

Joyce

For the defense.  (no gross pictures)

http://tinyurl.com/f8lav

If it was the same PETA clip I looked at (in response to
some protest appeal posted on another thread), how could you
possibly see WHAT was happening?????  The picture was so
small and dark, about all that was certain was that there
were some dogs in the video clip!  (Nothing HAD to be
"faked", because nothing objectionable was actually SHOWN -
at least not in any recognizeable form.)

PeTA doesn't fake their videos.  I'm sure you are talking about the dog
reserach video - showing dogs going insane from being research
subjects, etc.  That's the sad reality of animal testing.  All food
manufacturers do it - as well as all cosmetic companies, drug
companies, etc.  But most of them debark the dogs so their sick little
secret can't be heard.   If you really want to be sickened, look in to
chimps and other non-human primates in research. Chimps can grow to 5.5
ft tall and weigh over  500 lbs.  The NIH cage requirement is 5 ft X
5ft X 8 feet tall.  Some chimps are research subjects for 40 years or
more.  The lucky ones are rescued and placed in sanctuaries.  Some
never recover, emotionally.  Check out the case histories of the chimps
at Fauna Foundation:

http://www.faunafoundation.org/ff/english/index1.html

My favorite is Tom.

-L.