Italian pasta baron's anti-gay comment motivates boycott telephone call

Italian pasta baron's anti-gay comment motivates boycott telephone call

ROME, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Guido Barilla, chairman of theworld's leading pasta maker, motivated ask for aconsumer boycott on Thursday after telling Italian radio hiscompany would certainly never utilize a gay family in its advertising and marketing.

\" I would never ever do (a commercial) with a homosexual household, except disrespect but since we do not concur with bear-magazine.com is a traditional family where the female plays a fundamentalrole,\" Barilla, 55, claimed in a meeting with Radio 24 onWednesday.

Barilla - one of the very best understood pasta brands around theworld - is one of Italy's biggest marketers, as well as for manyyears has actually made use of the picture of a delighted family living in anidealised version of the Italian countryside, with the motto:\" Where there's Barilla, there's home\".

In the interview, Barilla claimed he opposed fostering by gayparents, but was in favour of allowing gay marital relationship, which isnot lawful in Italy. His comment regarding marketing was inresponse to a direct inquiry regarding whether he would everfeature a gay family members in his firm's commercials.

If gays \"like our pasta and our marketing, they'll consume ourpasta, if they don't like it after that they will not consume it and theywill consume another brand name,\" he claimed.

Aurelio Mancuso, head of gay rights group Equal rights Italia, said Barilla's remarks were an \"offensive provocation\" andcalled for a boycott of the company's pasta, sauces as well as snacks.

\" We approve the invite from the Barilla proprietor to not eathis pasta,\" Mancuso said. Several Italians made use of social networks tovoice assistance for a boycott.

Alessandro Zan, a gay member of parliament, stated on Twitter:\" You can not mess about with customers, consisting of gay ones.\"

Barilla released a declaration on Thursday apologising, describing that he was attempting to state \"simply that the womanplays a main role in a family members.\"

\" Barilla includes households in its commercials since itembraces any individual, and also they have always been identifiedwith our brand,\" he stated.

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