Charity speaks up for the ass

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 5 November 2007

An animal charity has condemned as "misleading and cruel" a Royal Bank of Scotland TV advert that implies donkeys are stupid.

The Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad says that donkeys are in fact vocal, intelligent and eager to please The RBS advert for a new credit card links a computerised graphic of a donkey to the word “dumb” in the slogan “For every clever thing in the world, there’s...

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