Media Alert: Nude Protester on a Giant Cutting Board to Call for Turkey-Free Thanksgiving
PETA’s Provocative Pro-Vegan Holiday Demonstration Will Illustrate That Human or Avian, We’re All the Same
For Immediate Release:
September 30, 2015
Contact:
Catie Cryar 202-483-7382
How would you feel if a human being was stuffed, roasted, and served for Thanksgiving dinner? That’s a question PETA will be asking Victoria residents as a PETA volunteer takes to the streets to lie nude in a “trussed up” pose beside two giant “turkey carcasses” on top of a cutting board with a meat cleaver. The grisly scene will include a banner that reads, “We Are All the Same. Go Vegan This Thanksgiving.”
Where: In front of The Bay Centre, 1150 Douglas St., Victoria
When: Thursday, October 1, 12 p.m.
“All of us have flesh, organs, and feelings, and none of us wants to die violently for someone else’s meal,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is calling on caring people to give turkeys a break this Thanksgiving and make their holiday table a place of compassion for all beings.”
Every year, billions of animals have their bodies chopped up, labelled, and wrapped in cellophane for the supermarket meat case. PETA, whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat,” notes that turkeys are sensitive, smart animals who have the ability to feel pain and who form families and friendships when given the chance. Factory farms deny animals everything that’s natural and important to them, confining them to filthy, cramped cages, stalls, and sheds—where a steady diet of drugs keeps them alive only long enough to be sent to the slaughterhouse.
For more information, please visit PETA.org.
