Australia came up with an ad campaign ‘Meat and Livestock’, in which they showed all gods enjoying lamb which included Lord Ganesha. This ad did no go down well with various religious communities including Hindus who did not enjoy seeing their deity Ganesha eating lamb. Other than Lord Ganesha, one can see Jesus Christ, Moses, Aphrodite, Lord Buddha, Zeus, Obi Wan Kenobi from the Star Wars franchise and Ron Hubbard who founded Scientology. The makers wanted to show that even gods enjoy lamb though they come from different backgrounds, having different beliefs.
Netizens took to Twitter to express their anger and asked Australia’s Meat and Livestock to pull down the advertisement.
How come you loser go so down on selling your shit product to hurt our religious sentiments #StopbuyingLamb#Auspol https://twitter.com/hashtag/Boycottlamb?src=hash">#Boycottlamb
— Mayuresh Vaingankar (@Mayuz222) https://twitter.com/Mayuz222/status/905367962898407425">September 6, 2017
— Karthik Arasu (@arasu_karthik) https://twitter.com/arasu_karthik/status/905069002644307969">September 5, 2017