10:36 pm - 11/15/2011
Thanksgiving may make you feel grateful for everything you have or it may be an insufferable meal with relatives you avoid the rest of the year, but chances are you don't think it's a day to fry up the family pet. That, however, is exactly what should be at the forefront of your mind, according to the animals rights group PETA.
Known for shock tactics and in-your-face ads, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, has launched an advertising campaign aimed at the family feasting holiday. The billboard, which pictures an animal that's a cross between a dog and a turkey, reads: "Kids: If You Wouldn't Eat Your Dog, Why Eat a Turkey?"
(OP note: Posted twice because this picture is cracking my shit up)
"Kids love animals and if they thought about how turkeys feel pain and fear just as dogs and cats do, they'd trade in their drumsticks for Tofurky in a heartbeat," said PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "This Thanksgiving, families can give all animals something to be thankful for by sticking to humane, delicious vegan meals."
According to PETA, more than 40 million turkeys are killed in the U.S. every year for Thanksgiving dinners. Earlier today, Patch reported that HoneyBaked plans to sell 7.99 million pounds of Thanksgiving ham and turkey in Georgia alone.
The group said they plan to run the child-targeted ad in Florida, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee and Utah.
In 2009, PETA produced a commercial it wanted to run on NBC during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, but the peacock network rejected the anti-gobbler spot, saying it wasn't up to standards.
PETA asks kids: Would you eat your dog for thanksgiving?
Thanksgiving may make you feel grateful for everything you have or it may be an insufferable meal with relatives you avoid the rest of the year, but chances are you don't think it's a day to fry up the family pet. That, however, is exactly what should be at the forefront of your mind, according to the animals rights group PETA.
Known for shock tactics and in-your-face ads, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, has launched an advertising campaign aimed at the family feasting holiday. The billboard, which pictures an animal that's a cross between a dog and a turkey, reads: "Kids: If You Wouldn't Eat Your Dog, Why Eat a Turkey?"
(OP note: Posted twice because this picture is cracking my shit up)
"Kids love animals and if they thought about how turkeys feel pain and fear just as dogs and cats do, they'd trade in their drumsticks for Tofurky in a heartbeat," said PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "This Thanksgiving, families can give all animals something to be thankful for by sticking to humane, delicious vegan meals."
According to PETA, more than 40 million turkeys are killed in the U.S. every year for Thanksgiving dinners. Earlier today, Patch reported that HoneyBaked plans to sell 7.99 million pounds of Thanksgiving ham and turkey in Georgia alone.
The group said they plan to run the child-targeted ad in Florida, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee and Utah.
In 2009, PETA produced a commercial it wanted to run on NBC during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, but the peacock network rejected the anti-gobbler spot, saying it wasn't up to standards.
so ha peta.
PETA are just trying to be money savers.
if it is, can i come over and stuff both your turkeys? :)
And my grandma makes jell-o salads (lol the kind that you put into molds) AND IDGAF THEY ARE DELICIOUS.
they'd say yes
Eating dog is not eating your pet~
I would never eat my pet or dog, and I get what PETA's trying to say, but. Idk. I go to a really diverse university so stuff like this doesn't reach me anymore.
Making PETA mad will probably just make me enjoy my Thanksgiving dinner even more.
The question they asked is "would you eat your own dog/your pet", and of course most people would say they wouldn't. I wouldn't eat my pet turkey either if I had one, because the key word is "pet", not dog or turkey.
PETA are idiots anyway, they would rather animals be dead than be pets (said that literally), hence them killing over 98% of the pets they "rescue" without even attempting to find a family for them, sometimes before the truck even leaves the driveway.
That didn't have to do with anything, but I just found it funny.
YUMMMM LASSIE
COME AT ME PETA
It's unfortunate, really.
/csb
Would not be surprised to find they are secretly controlled by the meat industry considering how much damage they do to the animal welfare cause.
but maybe i'm just reading into this too much :)