Barbados Veterinary Services? More Like Butcher Shop, Tweetie is Not Coming Home.
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 | Food, Health
I think this is where animals go to die in Barbados.
I’m usually not negative…today might be a little different. After searching the Internets for a bit I found this peculiar website for “Veterinary Services” on the island of Barbados.
I didn’t know much about Barbados but after a little digging we found it’s not your average Caribbean island nation. Fueled mainly by the sugar industry and tourism, Barbados has a nice little thing going on. Good infrastructure, and consistently ranked in the top 75 nations of the world on the “Human Development Index” that helps grade if countries are swimming or sinking. This one is swimming, that’s a good thing, it’s an island. It’s flag has an f’ing trident on it, that’s badass! (thanks wikipedia)
However, based on this website, I’m going to say this is an inappropriate use of Copperplate (GASP!). The pictures they use are a little suspect, I would venture to say that the “Veterinary Services” is where animals go to die. The pale green doesn’t help, it creates the sense of sickness and perpetuates unsettling feelings of the sun isn’t going to shine tomorrow. The overall layout of the site doesn’t really add to the whole feeling that little Johnny is going to get the answer he wants to the question, “Mom, Dad, Is Tweetie is going to get better after we take him to the Vet in Barbados?!?!”
Bringing your meat in a suitcase to Barbados might be smart.
I can’t say I’m too inspired from the links right below their “logo” which include resources for “bringing meat and meat products in personal luggage to Barbados”. If they would stop eating their sick and dying animals from the “Vet” they might not encourage visitors to bring their own cuts of meat and poultry into the country.
So maybe this post isn’t negative, maybe it’s a positive wrapped up in a negative.
Free advice and suggestions to the fair people of the island of Barbados:
- Please don’t use Copperplate Gothic Bold to promote your sick animal eating program
- Please stop eating your animals
- Please stop encouraging visitors to bring their own meat into the country
- Try a darker green, blue, or any color other than pale green, yellows. oranges or the like to promote your Veterinary Services
- Use images that are larger, more focused, not that could be mistaken for cuts of beef…after the animal has passed…shady…I don’t expect this from you, only shady Chinese food restaurants
I'll Take The "Daily Special" *wink*
So cheer up Barbados, it isn’t all too bad. You’ve found a way to be greener, recycling limited resources on an island nation is important. With a few fixes you can promote the message that you are hoping to intend. You can always use Comic Sans or Kablam! for other fonts to promote your services. Remember to “Vet” new content before posting.
5 Comments to Barbados Veterinary Services? More Like Butcher Shop, Tweetie is Not Coming Home.
Found your site through Google Alerts for Barbados. Been going to Barbados for 13 years, and yes as an American who stays for 3-4 weeks, I bring meat in a freezer bag used for travelimg. Most of the hotels have full kitchens. Also have to have a permit from the Embassy here in U.S. to clear customs.
Meat in Barbados is very expensive – a lot of it is shipped in from U.S. – especially beef for the local tourists. The locals mostly eat their own chickens, home grown vegetables/fruits and of course fresh seafood.
Barbadians do not eat sick and dying animals! In fact, this is one of the places in the world where fast food giant McDonald’s failed.
Barbados is a popular search destination on the Net. People from all over the world put up sites just to get paid from ads. So do not assume Barbadians have control of this particular website or ads. But they do have a protocol for bringing food into their country as do countries around the world.
I had to respond as I know the people and culture quite well.
January 21, 2010
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Charles, nice point. I’m sure the people there are friendly. Never thought that heading out of town would include heading over to the grocery store to pick up some bulk packs of 80/20 meat so I could eat on my trip.
I do get mad that they use Copperplate Gothic Bold for an inferior design.
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Are you nuts !! I am in the food import business and Barbados has one of the safest food sources in the Caribbean thanks to Barbados Veterinary Services. People can’t just import anything as there are controls in all counties for imports. The Senior Veterinarian is responsible for all animal products imported; including all foods of animal origin, live animals and animal products like raw hide bones. He is also one of my dog’s veterinarians: kind, thoughtful and humane. We also have many other competent vets and I resent your “will tweety come home” accusations. If you have a PETA agenda I suggest you focus on countries that don’t have the sophistication and laws to control abuse. Or, perhaps you should stick with topics you might know about like Copperplate Gothic Bold…I suspect GOTHIC describes you to a twit.
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