Thanksgiving: PETA Equitating Dogs With Turkeys ( I love PETA for this)

November 10, 2011 – 07:33pm

PETA to place Thanksgiving billboards equating turkeys with dogs near Duval schools

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plans to place billboards depicting a dog’s head on a turkey’s body near some Duval County schools as part of a campaign aimed at getting kids to rebel against eating turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.

The mutant-looking animal accompanies the message “Kids: If You Wouldn’t Eat Your Dog, Why Eat a Turkey?” in the advertisement planned by the animal rights group.

PETA spokeswoman Paige Snyder said the organization is negotiating with local advertising companies but has not determined the number or location of the billboards. It hopes to have them up as soon as possible, she said.

None will be located on school property. However, Snyder said PETA hopes the billboards will be seen by the most students 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 their drumsticks for Tofurky in a heartbeat,” said Tracy Reiman, PETA executive vice president.

Not everyone agrees.

“That’s just plain stupid,” 10-year-old DeKacie Johnston said Thursday when asked about the idea as she and her grandmother went into the main Jacksonville Public Library.

“Turkeys are supposed to be eaten,” she said. “That’s why they’re on farms.”

PETA also plans to put up the billboards in Salem, Ore., and Tulsa, Okla., Snyder said.

Jacksonville, she said, was selected at random.

Photo: Wild Male Turkey ( Wikipedia)

~ by narhvalur on November 13, 2011.

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