The Turkey Stick-on Mission for the UK December 6, 2007
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It's the night before Christmas
and all through the house,
not a creature was stirring,
(especially not the millions of turkeys who are slaughtered each year).
-Martin from peta2 UK
Now I know that this doesn't necessarily work as well as the traditional version of the poem, but I am pretty sure it gets the message across of the mass slaughter that happens every year for Christmas. Most of the time when I walk around the local supermarket it makes me go whiter than frosty to see the rows and rows of carcasses stacked up on the shelves. Advertising has done a good job in taking people's minds away from what they are truly eating—the decomposing corpse of a small tortured bird. Wouldn't it be great if we had stickers to help educate people about this issue? Well, we do! And they are exclusively for UK members of the peta2 Street Team!
Out of the 35 million turkeys who are killed each year in the UK, 10 million are slaughtered for the Christmas holidays. That's a huge number of deaths for one festival that should be about caring for each other. Much like the demonic KFC, turkey farms treat animals as a tool to make money. The birds are crammed in barns of up to 20,000 with no light and conditions so bad some resort to cannibalism (something that does not occur in the wild).
But there is a way of reminding people what they are buying when they hand over their death money.
What we want you to do!
1) Fill out the form below to request your stickers (remember UK residents only)
2) Wait for the post to arrive—Royal Mail, what can you say!
3) Place stickers in legally appropriate places, (e.g. your parents’ turkey this Christmas)
Comments
Could you make a sticker with '100% more bird flu' on it?
Posted by: Aran at December 6, 2007 7:18 PMI'm so glad I'm vegan, it's things like this that make me proud to help and do my bit.
Posted by: pattie at December 7, 2007 10:47 AMYay something for us UK Activists at last!!
Posted by: Ben at December 7, 2007 12:20 PMI really wish they had these for the U.S.!!!!
Posted by: laura at December 7, 2007 3:29 PMim so gald that i dont eat turkey at christmas! its so good tosee that we can help to make a difference. if christmas is all about caring for each other then everyone should be caring for the animals as wel - not killing an innocent animal just for the sake of meal. its also great to see something for the uk activists aswel.. roll on a turkey free christmas!!!
Posted by: charlotte at December 10, 2007 8:03 AMi'll try and do this!! everyone in my family apart from my dad is a vegetarian but when we go to my nans we have to sit in front of the turkey knowing whats happened before it got to our table. maybe i can convince them that it might 'taste nice' but it's morally wrong.
Posted by: Hannah at December 11, 2007 11:36 AMit's a shame it won't arrive for my school xmas dinner, that would have been fun haha. :P
Posted by: hannah at December 11, 2007 11:48 AMPlease close down the fast food places who are slaughtering animal pleassssee i want to help the animals=[[[[[[[
Posted by: at December 20, 2007 7:45 PMThanks! these actually came quite quickly
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I want these to be available for Irish people too
Posted by: Erika at December 6, 2007 7:12 PMWe care aswel and would love to do something about it
Please :(