Keep depressed food alive so you can eat it

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Hinting at suicide in ads is always risky, even when the potential building-jumper is an animated head of depressed cabbage, as in the Draftfcb spot above for RescueFood.org (an initiative of City Harvest, which helps feed New York's hungry). But what's the worst that could happen if it did jump? The corned beef would need therapy? Besides, the cabbage is just going to get devoured by that family, so any "rescue" will be temporary at best.

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