“KIDS: If you wouldn’t eat your dog, why eat a turkey?"
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liberty2897
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I'm Thankful that I'm not spending the holiday at this place.
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Dog hater.
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Fuck You PETA ! I'll eat whatever the fuck I want.
Meh , I say , if you give me your Turkey, I will spare your dog
PETA to Kids: Would You ‘Eat Your Dog’ For Thanksgiving?
PETA, the animal rights organization that thrives on over-the-top controversial ad campaigns, is now inviting children to consider that eating a turkey on Thanksgiving is the same as dining on your dog.
The bizarre Thanksgiving ad, which was released Monday, features a Jack Russell terrier’s head photoshopped onto a turkey’s body and says, “KIDS: If you wouldn’t eat your dog, why eat a turkey? GO VEGAN.”
“Turkeys may not be as familiar to us as dogs or cats but they have the same ability to suffer and that’s something people inately understand, especially kids,” said PETA’s manager of campaigns Ashely Byrne. “There are a lot of kids out there who don’t want to see a dead bird as the centerpiece of Thanksgiving dinner.”
PETA plans to erect numerous billboards of this ad near public schools in major cities in Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, Florida, New Mexico, Utah and Tennessee, to “spark a dialogue between kids and their parents,” according to Byrne. However, PETA is still negotiating with local advertising companies in various cities.
The organization launched the campaign, Byrne said, to raise awareness that much like man’s best friend, turkeys are also animals that are sensitive to pain.
“It doesn’t make sense to call dogs our friends and turkeys our food,” Byrne said.
In addition to the billboards, PETA also suggests turkey substitutes for a traditional bird, including the soy-based Tofurkey, as well as other soy-based recipes on their website.
This isn’t the first time PETA has used the Thanksgiving holiday as a soap box for turkey cruelty.
In 2009, the organization released an ad called “Grace,” which featured a little girl leading her family in prayer over their Thanksgiving meal and then suddenly launching into a graphic description of how turkeys are slaughtered as her family shifts uncomfortably in their chairs.
PETA had hoped to air the spot during NBC’s broadcast of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade that year, but the network declined, saying the ad “does not meet NBC Universal standards.”
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/11/peta-to-kids-would-you-eat-your-dog-for-thanksgiving/
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Well Peta as nasty as a Turkey can live. A dog uses its tongue as toilet paper and eats cat shit like its candy.
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I don't like PETA much, but what the girl said in that video is mostly true if you buy meat from factory farms. The funny thing is a lot of people know this but they suppress the thought so that they can enjoy their dinner. I'll admit I do the same thing.
It's a good illustration of how the brain responds to cognitive dissonance. If there's something you really like or want to do, but you find out something terrible about it, your brain is capable of suppressing that information so that you can continue to enjoy your life the way you live it. It's an age-old survival mechanism to prevent internal conflict and stress. If someone brings up the topic, the knee-jerk response seems to be changing the subject, getting angry or ignoring them, especially when it's something a bit more important than how turkeys are treated.
This reaction can persist even when an alternative or a way of solving the problem is presented. I think this is because the brain hates to own up to the fact that it's been lying to itself the whole time.
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I hear yea...
Yes that is the equivalent of my dog.
If you have ever had one of those get behind you and then jump up and hit you in the back with it's feet, you would be happy to have it for dinner.
I know, I've had many here on the farm and they are not anything like a dog, they are vicious sneaky beasts.
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My dog likes to eat rabbit raisins and roll in goose poop.
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Yeah, mine like to do that too. Sure makes them smell bad. I hate having to give them baths because of that.
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I showed Peta's ad to my daughter. She thought they were dumb. She asked me twice who they were, and where they came up with that idea. So much for impressionable children. 
I don't know about the turkey, though. A very close friend died a few hours ago. He was old, and it was his time, but we won't be going out for Thanksgiving now until Sunday. I have two turkeys in the fridge, but I have been feeling not so good all day, and now I'm really achy. Ugh. Maybe I'll cook one of the turkeys for the kids tomorrow. What a day to get sick. Peta would probably cheer.
I don't know about the turkey, though. A very close friend died a few hours ago. He was old, and it was his time, but we won't be going out for Thanksgiving now until Sunday. I have two turkeys in the fridge, but I have been feeling not so good all day, and now I'm really achy. Ugh. Maybe I'll cook one of the turkeys for the kids tomorrow. What a day to get sick. Peta would probably cheer.
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