'If You Wouldn't Eat Your Dog, Why Eat a Turkey?'


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How would children feel if their favorite pooch were stuffed, seasoned and fed to them for Thanksgiving? That's the question the animal rights organization PETA is asking in a new outdoor advertisement campaign with billboards being erected in Florida, Oklahoma, Oregon, New Mexico, Utah and Tennessee.

The billboard reads, "Kids: If You Wouldn't Eat Your Dog, Why Eat a Turkey?" and features a Jack Russell terrier's head on a turkey's body.

The group said in a release that it plans to run the ad near public schools in hopes that it will spark a dialogue between kids and their parents.

"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," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman in a media release. "This Thanksgiving, families can give all animals something to be thankful for by sticking to humane, delicious vegan meals."

According to the release, more than 250 million turkeys are killed in the U.S. every year?more than 40 million of which are used for Thanksgiving dinners.

"In nature, turkeys are protective and loving parents as well as spirited explorers who can climb trees and run as fast as 25 miles per hour. But most turkeys slated to be killed for food are crammed into filthy warehouses, where disease, smothering and heart attacks are common," the release reads. "Turkeys are drugged and bred to grow such unnaturally large upper bodies that their legs often become crippled under the weight."

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dogs cute, kittys cute, turkeys uggo and delicious and dumb as turkeys. other animals yearn for human attention

probably easier to breed and contain for the farmers.

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What I've never understood about PETA is the fact that we're all animals, yet we're also the only animal to have found a way to make it easy to eat other animals. If the turkey hunted us rather than vice-versa, and they had the technology to capture and devour humans, would they be acting the same way? I know it's an odd question but it's something I always think about when I see PETA goes against people who eat meat.

The simple fact, for me at least, is that I don't know enough about the turkey's plight to be bothered by it. I don't know enough about what an animal goes through to be made delicious to actually say whether it's acceptable or not. And yet at the same time I'm not going to try and find out more information, because it doesn't bother me to be honest. I'll probably be having turkey around Christmas time since there's no real Thanksgiving in the UK but I can't really tell whether I should be interested in what PETA have to say or not.

"they'd trade in their drumsticks for Tofurky in a heartbeat"

"humane, delicious vegan meals."

Most kids wouldn't understand if it's being put up outside a primary school. Most kids beyond that aren't too bothered by it, I don't think. As for the vegan meals, you'd almost think it was an advertisement for food :p Humane? Yeah, probably, but delicious? I can't agree, if I'm honest. I've tried tofu before and I wasn't a fan.

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Peta really need to STFU dogs are eaten in parts of the world so they are full of their own self rightous excrement.

1 reason why turkeys eaten, 1 ITS NOT DOMESTICATED Dogs and cats are in the western world.

By all means if someone wishes not to eat flesh of another animal, thats their personal choice and I applaud them for their beliefs and conviction, but last time I checked we have enzymes in our gut and teeth designed for tearing up flesh in our diet....its called evolution and natural selection. No different to carnivores in the natural world.

I always switch off to these morons, a tasty vegan alternative....wake me up when there is one, Tofu? pfft nope, Quorn mmmm almost.

I get what they are trying to do and I agree mass farming of animals and filling them with chemicals and steroids to promote oversizing is wrong and should be stopped worldwide, but they miss the point with their extremism, switching most people off to their nonsense.

Ill start listening to an ounce of the crud out of their mouths when they sort the "humane" killing of a higher than anyone else level of abandoned animals....as DocM so rightly stated, asshats the lot of them, Tell you what PETA how about getting kids to stop eating meat in macdonalds, give them a superhealthytastytofu-Mac then see if theyd change....morons the lot of them.

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People eating an animal and the views thereon are based upon the status that society gives that animal.

Western culture dictates the dog is part of the family, a pet - hence we don't eat it.

They tend to have a lower status in some asian countries, and thus are eaten.

Why does this KEEP being asked, it's not a hard subject to comprehend.

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Cultural differences. They do make a good point that some so called "farms" are more like factories where animals live in pretty horrid conditions. However, that's a problem with the industry, it's not a reason to stop eating meat altogether. Animals can be farmed humanely where they don't suffer, and they can be killed quickly and painlessly.

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"Kids: If You Wouldn't Eat Your Dog, Why Eat a Turkey?" Because it isn't my bloody turkey! I wouldn't eat any pet, but I'd certainly eat a lovely bit of meat that a shop sells.

Exactly, if I had a pet turkey, I wouldn't eat that either.

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Chances are, the majority of you have eaten Cat or Dog at some point in your lifetime. Chinese restaurants come to mind.

As for PETA, they are at best, simpled minded hypocrites with too much time on their hands.

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We're heterotrophs. We have to eat other living things to continue living ourselves. It's basic biological fact. So why not eat the things that we think taste good?

Besides, at least the turkey has a slight chance of making a break for it. The potatoes, corn, etc. on your Thanksgiving dinner table don't even have that. :rofl:

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If the turkey hunted us rather than vice-versa, and they had the technology to capture and devour humans, would they be acting the same way?

If it were humans being eaten, why do you think PETA wouldn't be doing their best to convince the turkeys otherwise either?

The simple fact, for me at least, is that I don't know enough about the turkey's plight to be bothered by it. I don't know enough about what an animal goes through to be made delicious to actually say whether it's acceptable or not. And yet at the same time I'm not going to try and find out more information, because it doesn't bother me to be honest.

Then maybe the ad was aimed at raising awareness and compassion among people. It's easy to be desensitized to the fact that some animals are suffering cruel, inhumane living conditions and killed in painful fashions when all one does today is pick up a nice, cleanly-wrapped turkey from the supermarket and pay for it, and PETA is apparently trying to change that. I don't agree with a lot of their other causes, but it seems that it's worth taking the conscientious stand that animals who die so that we may live are at least treated a little better, when family pets who barely contribute anywhere near as much to ensuring your survival live in far more comfort.

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