Photos: Turkey or Terrier for Christmas Dinner? PETA Ad Says There’s No Difference
21 December 2024
Photos: Turkey or Terrier for Christmas Dinner? PETA Ad Says There’s No Difference
Glasgow, Scotland – If you wouldn’t eat your dog for Christmas dinner, why would you eat a turkey? That’s the food for thought PETA’s billboard is serving up in Glasgow. The ad, located near several eateries serving bird flesh, including turkey, tells passersby that dogs and turkeys are the same in all the ways that count – from feeling joy and pain to bonding with their loved ones – and asks everyone to embody the spirit of kindness by enjoying a vegan Christmas meal.
The billboard is located on 399 Alexandra Parade, G31 3AD. and will be up for two weeks. High-resolution images are also available here. Credit: BK Commercial Photography.
“Turkeys are smart, social birds, who don’t want to be trussed and stuffed any more than we do,” says PETA Vice President of Programmes Elisa Allen. “PETA urges the people of Glasgow to bring comfort and joy to all species this year by leaving animals off their plates.”
In nature, turkeys spend their days caring for their young, building nests, foraging for food, taking dust baths, and roosting high in trees. Free-roaming turkeys can live up to 10 years, but those raised for food are normally slaughtered when they’re between 12 and 26 weeks old. In the UK, approximately 9 million turkeys are killed each year for Christmas alone. Workers hang the young birds upside down, drag them through an electrified bath, slit their throats, and dump them into scalding-hot water in de-feathering tanks – often while they’re still conscious.
PETA’s new Christmas advert, which encourages viewers to see the individual behind every beef Wellington centrepiece and leave all animals off their plate by trying a vegan meal instead, has also launched at various Cineworld, Vue, and Odeon branches in Glasgow and will be shown throughout the festive season.
PETA offers free vegan holiday recipes and a guide to the best meat-free holiday roasts for those looking to make the switch during this season of goodwill.
PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow the group on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.
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