The Turkey Stick-on Mission for the UK December 6, 2007
Posted by Pulin Modi at December 6, 2007 3:33 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 10 ) | TrackBack It's the night before Christmas
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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)
