PETA billboards compare eating turkeys to eating family dog
BOISE, Idaho -- The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said it plans to put up billboards that will ask kids to compare eating turkeys to eating the family dog.
The group said it hopes the billboards, which will be put up near Boise public schools, will prompt kids to talk to their parents about what it means.
"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 in a written release.
PETA said it plans to showcase the seasonal billboards in Reno, Nevada and Sacramento, California as well.
The group said it hopes the billboards, which will be put up near Boise public schools, will prompt kids to talk to their parents about what it means.
"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 in a written release.
PETA said it plans to showcase the seasonal billboards in Reno, Nevada and Sacramento, California as well.
Guess I better pickup a BUTTTERBARK puppy today before there all gone...
There is nothing dumber on this planet that a turkey. Eat up!
 @Klondiko Actually there is. It would be a PETA advertisement writer.
Well...since PETA says eating the family dog is comparable to eating turkey then I'm sure family dog must be delicious! Â Sorry bud, but the smoker is ready and I'm going to be full tonight!
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Now, time to go turn over the 18 pounds of bacon I have curing in my fridge.
Maybe I am just mean but I think certain animals are above others. I hardly think a turkey or chicken is equal to a dog, cat or horse. I don't want to see animals tortured but come on, really?
Oh FFS. (I'm a member of PETA all right- People Eating Tasty Animals!)
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You kill shelter animals regularly (while I don't have an eighth of your money but tend to take in older rescue or shelter dogs who tend to have harder times finding a home) and would force parents to have to work with a nutritonist so kids could go vegan?
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I personally would not be comfortable with having my child go vegan without a nutritionist helping me and making sure they're still getting everything vitamin and nutrition-wise. I'd probably feel a lot more comfortable with larvo-lacto personally.
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However, I am sure there are vegan parents that do a fantastic job knowing what thier kids need as they are already on the vegan diet and know what to eat for proper nutrition.
PETA spends more money, time and effort keeping it's name in the public than it does actually protecting animals.
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Talk to them about how many dogs get euthanized by thier own group back at shelters near thier national headquarters.   The numbers I've seen are nearly every one they take in.  They adopt out only a very small number and the rest are dead.
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So when PETA stops thier pathetic shock and divide tactics and starts to actually take care of the animals, I'll care about them. Until then, while they use tactics of terror and force to force people to follow thier way and thier way only, they can sit and spin on something harmful.
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@FormerMarineSgt Pet euthanazia is a neccessary evil. As long as people refuse to neuter their pets and feral animals are running rampant something has to be done. Not all for PETA. Just saying.
@Klondiko -- the problem with PETA is the lies they spread about what they are doing. They are not actually saving animals. They are keeping thier name in the news and nothing more.
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And when it comes to thier dog shelter in Virginia, they are pathetic. Most animals they get in are killed within 24 hours of thier being recieved. They adopt out nearly none. Thier own shelter does not meet their own standards!
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They are the typical extremist hypocrites with the exception that the leadership of thier group does not actually do anything other than put shock advertisements up to try to convince people to be vegans. They aren't content with actually helping animals, they have skipped that and gone straight to 'if you're not vegan, you're not right' act.
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And yes, I recoginize that due to the sheer volume of dogs out there, many don't have a chance of getting adopted - AND THE PROBLEM IS THAT PETA DOESN'T ACTUALLY WORK AT GETTING ANIMALS ADOPTED. They just do the quick kill before any chance of getting the animal adopted. And they've been doing it for years.Â
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If PETA actually did something significant for the animals they act like they want protected, I'd not be so against them. But - they do little other than pay themselves thier salary and put out stupid and false adverstisements like this (which achieve nothing other than keeping thier name in the press. No animals are saved by thier actions).
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And in the data I've seen only a tiny percent of the killed animals at their shelter were unadoptable, so it's clear they don't even try.
PETA has long ago lost any credibility in the animal rights community due to their policy of needlessly slaughtering shelter animals. The Humane Society of the USA is also bad, for the same reason (although local HS affiliates tend to be better).
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PAWS (Progressive Animal Welfare Society) is the best group I know of, since they actually do what they claim to do.
@Sutekh PAWS is great, for a local group. There really needs to be some nationwide organization that truly promotes non-kill shelters (& follows it's own promotions.) I do understand, though, that there really are some animals that need to be euthanized when they come into a shelter - badly injured, seriously ill, or just plain non-rehabilitably untrustworthy.
Maybe if PETA didn't kill dogs, didn't consort with domestic terrorists, and started acting like functioning adults, we would take them seriously.
I'm sorry that they feel this way about Turkey's, who knows maybe they will do the same thing for KFC, McDonalds, Burger King etc..... Personally, we will be having turkey to include all the fixings for Thanksgiving and I'm sure my friends that are vegan will keep their comments to themselves as do the family members that are
In PETA's name I am going to the International District today and have lunch at my favorite restaurant and order the mystery meat chow mein. I have know idea what it is, but it sure don't taste like chicken.Â
this is just rule number 12 on rules for radicals. isolate it freeze it peronalize it and polarize it! well the way to combat that it to use peta's play book agianst them. as in how crule they are in hording and compeating with herbivores on their food supply. See if we all became vegan! the there would not be enough food for the herbivore and they would starve and the meat eaters would starve too. So when peta members go vegan they are starving bambi! How crule is that!
Peta needs to get a life!  Eating any meat at any time, especially a serious tradition as turkey on thanksgiving is NOT an issue.  Peta needs to stop worrying about  people eating normal everyday meats and concentrate on the BIG picture, like people intentionally abusing animals. Next thing you know they are going to go after kids keeping goldfish. They need to just back off of issues that are not considered a problem to 99% of us. Whats next, banning milk cause cows are forced to stand in one spot for a little while as the machines gather the milk from them??? OMG MILK IS CRUEL!!  BAN MILK!!!  LOL
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Kids keep goldfish? Well if salmon are sea kittens they must be pond kittens and to live anywhere else is just cruel! Let me go check my humane fly trap like the one they sent to the Prez. LOL
 what jerks.
Compare my family dog to a turkey???? I don't think so. I do not seeing myself cuddling on the couch with a turkey.
In response, I'm proposing a billboard that compares PETA to a pile of dog****!
Domesticated turkeys are one of the stupidest birds in existence. Wild turkeys are some of
most cunning birds.
I feel PETA is like the domestic turkey because somehow someone has managed to breed the
brains out of both the domestic turkey and accomplished the same results with PETA members.
Amen!
It is American attitudes that make this a big deal. Other parts of the world, dog and/or cat is just as much food as chicken and pork is here.
@James Housel There is a Chinese restraurant that recently opened near where I live and the wild cat population has suddenly decreased. I dont KNOW that they are serving cat, I am just sayin......
I'll keep it clean, but my real thoughts about those idiots in PETA aren't fit for polite company.
I knew there was a reason I went to Arby's and had some roast beef today. Every time PETA comes out with one of these ridiculous ideas, its time to eat some tasty meat in a yummy silent protest of their stupidity. What a bunch of whack jobs.
Yum, Turkey!
PETA, please get a life. You people get more psychotic every day.
Kids love turkey and dogs. They are smart enough to understand that one is for eating, the other for loving.
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I'm a vegetarian and an animal lover, but I absolutely cannot stand PETA. Â People are going to do what they feel is right for them and these 'shock' campaigns are just so dumb and they backfire. PETA euthanizes TONS of adoptable animals - they should put as much effort into rescuing and saving those animals as they do on these ridiculous campaigns. Â Going after kids, kids who don't even do the grocery shopping, cooking, etc.? Â Puh-leeze.Â
I love animals and care very deeply for they're welfare and that they are treated humanely but sorry, Tofurkey tastes like Tocrappy! Plus, I just have a tiny little Chihuahua and he wouldn't even be a full meal! ; ) Just make sure you get a turkey from a humanely raised farm. This PETA campaign is really over the top!! Going after children like child-molester, cigarette companies!!
 @My-celiums Actually a WILD turkey is about as good as it gets. Its free of antibiotics, hormones, GMO feeds AND the kids learn where food really comes from.  Win, Win, Win.
Wow. What a manipulative campaign. PETA, if you want to debate with adults, that's fine, but preying on the idealistic innocence of children - and potentially causing them some amount of trauma when a turkey shows up on their table - is absolutely shameful.
 @Mountainguy Yep, they really are terrorists.......have been that way for way too long..........little bunny foo foo apparently has more rights than I do......go figure?
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 @Susabelle @Mountainguy Get's me thinking; PETA should have been a terrorist group for a season on 24! LOL!
Dog meat tastes like how your dog smells!!
tastes like pork
Ask Obama. He ate dog a few times. Maybe he's got a good recipe for one. Blacken lab with gravy! YUM!!!!
Mmmmm dog.
If my dog tasted like turkey, I would eat my dog too..
Well, I just barely finished my PETA Meat Meal in honor of the lady who wanted to post a memorial for the fish spilled all over the road in California. Perhaps it's time to step up the rhetoric and make it "invite a friend to a PETA Meat Meal".
I've not had dog meat and I hope never to have to go that far (my dog rolls her eyes at me :) ) but I seriously doubt it tastes like turkey. Besides, these turkeys aren't family pets, they are raised for meat. Go vegan if you can or want to - but most humans are omnivores and need some meat. PETA - you stink anyway. I put my concern with animal groups who sincerely help all animals and humans as well. www.hsus.org.
 @Elaine2 Beware of HSUS too - they are a fraud, about as hypocritical as PETA is.
@Doxie - yes, the bigger they get, the more the hypocrits come out but I still applaud the HSUS work more than PETA. :)
 @Elaine2  @Doxie They euthanize more animals than they save, and they spend tons on fundraising (sending out those tote bags and jackets).  Local Humane Society might be a better bet - Bellevue shelter is no kill, I think, and they are not affiliated with HSUS.  Google HSUS and scam or tax evasion to get a better idea.  You seem like a nice person, I would hate to see your donation wasted.
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This is coming from the same folks who think clams have feelings. Besides, in some areas of the world, dog meat is a delicacy, so the family dog couldn't be that bad tasting....in a bind...
 @RainyHere About as looney as wanting a memorial for dead fish...
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I wish PETA would put their efforts into ensuring humane situations for our nation's food animals. Plants are living things as well yet we eat them with no qualms. I guess green beans just aren't 'cute' enough.
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My son's answer is simply this - we do not eat our pets. If we had a pet turkey, we wouldn't eat him. PETA and anyone else pushing vegetarian diet should just knock it off. I support your decision to go vegetarian and I'll even defend you, but it's not your place to tell me how to eat. I am an omnivore, not a vegetarian. I enjoy vegetarian meals occasionally but I need to eat meat. My son is the same way.
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PETA itself is a load of crap. They act out for attention, go after children with the shock factor and protest ridiculous things such as killing flies or flinging fish. They are idiots if they think everyone should become a vegetarian. They even think you should feed your cats and dogs vegetarian. Yes they think CATS, which are carnivores, should be fed a vegetarian diet.
Can we put up animated vegetables running for their very lives??? Seriously, I kinda feel like they should be treated as pedophiles and not be allowed within 1000 ft of a school... I see this as nothing short as terrorism.......
 @Susabelle As I said in a previous reply, PETA should have been a terrorist group for a season on 24! LOL!
PETA? Targeting KIDS? Really? Just for that, I'm going to encourage my carnivorous friends to cook TWO Turkeys this year. One for US, and one for our family pets! THEY deserve tasty, TASTY meat too, and this year, they should feast! We'll post Thanksgiving on Youtube JUST FOR YOU, so you can see just how much our pets LOVE Turkey. :) Thanks for the idea!
@Wolfen Time to break out the deep fryer!