By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-11-27 20:51:49 | Updated at 2024-11-27 23:37:50
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Animal rights group PETA is being ridiculed online over their Thanksgiving campaign, which features a couple stuffing a turkey and making lewd comments.
The promotional cartoon, which was shared online, depicts a couple stuffing a turkey for Thanksgiving while their kids watch in the kitchen doorway.
Speech bubbles from their mouths show the father figure saying: 'Let's open up those legs,' while the woman says: 'And stuff it all the way.'
In the background, two children look on in horror, saying 'gross' and 'ew.'
While the animal rights group released the poster with the intention of driving people towards buying vegan meals for Thanksgiving, it sparked backlash from consumers.
'Only PETA would try to make cooking a family dinner weirdly sexual,' one user commented.
'Stuffing is one of the best parts of a Thanksgiving dinner,' another declared.
'Ur just making it weird,' someone else objected.
The promotional cartoon, which was shared online, depicts a couple stuffing a turkey for Thanksgiving while their kids watch in the kitchen doorway
'“We have a biracial couple sexually assault a turkey in front of the children and family dog,"' another user joked, attaching a still of Don Draper pitching something in Mad Men.
'I'm convinced this is a satire account lmao gold,' someone else added.
'Why tf (the f***) is PETA gettin' freaky on my TL (timeline),' one questioned.
PETA has long raised eyebrows for their controversial promotional posters and commercials.
In March, they blasted the concept of saying 'cheese' before a photo, encouraging people to think about what it 'really means.'
The group were ridiculed after suggesting people use new terms that 'reflect our shifting values' as younger people opt for dairy-free lifestyles.
The video, released in March to X, formerly Twitter, starts with scenes designed to shock - families posing with their children for photos while the photographer says 'Say, "Babies slaughtered for veal"' or 'Say, "Calf-cow separation.'"
Another shows two young women taking a selfie as they say, 'Repeated and forced impregnation!' and a man cheers as he poses and says 'Dehorning and tail-docking! Woo!'
Animal rights group PETA is being ridiculed online over their Thanksgiving advert, which features a couple stuffing a turkey making lewd comments
While the animal rights group released the poster with the intention of driving people towards buying vegan meals for Thanksgiving, it sparked backlash from consumers
The campaign, which goes on to encourage watchers to say 'peas' or 'bees' or 'nutritional yeast' instead of cheese, urges that 'tired outdated phrases' should be replaced by more 'animal-friendly phrases'.
But the post was met with outrage from people, many of whom took to social media to mock the campaign for its insistence on new pro-vegan terminology.
Earlier this week, turkey supplier Butterball was targeted by trolls after a shocking PETA investigation showed animal abuse inside the company's factory ahead of Thanksgiving.
Footage recorded by PETA two decades ago showed brutal abuse and torture of turkeys, angered fans have been trolling the food giant's social media pages as they demand Butterball own up.
PETA's investigation showed workers sitting on turkeys, smacking and humping the animals, and sexually abusing them at the Ozark, Arkansas location in 2006.
An undisclosed investigator revealed the alleged atrocities he witnessed as workers 'shackled and slaughtered' more than 50,000 turkeys each day, according to PETA.
In the shockingly graphic video, the investigator claimed he saw a Butterball employee shoving his finger up a turkey's cloaca, or vagina, for 'fun.'
Another worker allegedly 'humped' a turkey while it was restrained.
In response to the online backlash the company is receiving, a Butterball representative wrote to DailyMail.com: 'We are aware of a video from nearly 20 years ago, which is being re-shared across social media.
'This video is not current and in no way reflects our animal welfare policies.
'Animal care and well-being is central to who we are as a company, and we are committed to the ethical and responsible care of our flocks. That means maintaining the health and well-being of our turkeys is an ongoing effort.'
The spokesperson added that Butterball has yearly audits conducted by a third party to make sure facilities are complying with the '200+ science-based standards of best practice for care of turkeys.'
The investigator recalled another haunting instance when a 'worker was taunting another worker by holding a bird by the legs and jerking her back and forth.'
