Posted on 11/26/2023 4:11:25 AM PST by Libloather
Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was fact-checked by Community Notes, a service on X, after PETA claimed in a viral post that turkeys would never eat humans at Thanksgiving.
"We’re lucky turkeys would never do this to us - you don’t have to do it to them, either," PETA wrote in a caption to a post that has received over 26.7 million views online. The picture attached to the post depicts a family of turkeys sitting around a human turkey at the center of the table.
"Turkeys are not vegetarians," according to the Community Note. "Turkeys eat mice, lizards, frogs, and just about anything they can fit in their mouth. If turkeys were larger or had the technological means to farm and eat humans, their current diet reveals they likely would."
PETA's post was mocked by political commentators online.
"Do you ever post about how many birds are killed by wind turbines?" Republican strategist Scott Presler wrote.
Other users congratulated Community Notes for calling out PETA.
"PETA got community noted and it’s one of the best," Tousi TV founder Mahyar Tousi wrote.
"All time champion community note," Cato Institute vice president Scott Lincicome wrote. "Will never be topped."
PETA President Ingrid Newkirk responded to the backlash over the post in a statement to Fox News Digital.
"The last laugh is on people who cannot read, because PETA did not say that turkeys are vegetarians - we said that they would not eat humans and we should show them the return courtesy," Newkirk wrote.
Newkirk has previously updated her will to include a request for her flesh to be cooked, and for her body parts to be transformed into activist messages post-mortem.
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Unfortunately everything in nature appears to like eating chicken. You have to build a Fort to keep them alive.
There are some seriously fattened up farmers in the plains states that could easily feed 150 people. /sarc
PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals
I remember this: PETA aka People Eating Tasty Animals
“Unfortunately everything in nature appears to like eating chicken. You have to build a Fort to keep them alive.”
Don’t I know... One time we had a sick coyote with no inhibitions come right in the yard during the middle of the day with us there and break down the door to get in the run. Killed them all before I could get to a firearm and eliminate it. Funny thing was the two ducks survived, apparently they play dead which saved their lives.
Peta are sick in the head- somehow they got my sisters address and name and they were sending my sister, who was young at the time, envelopes chockerblock full of photos,of rabbits with their eyes gouged out, bloody decapitated dogs and such. It got so bad I toldthem to stop sending such filth or face a lawsuit- f8nally they took her off the mailing list
The people are insane.
This happens after every Thanksgiving day. I remember fifty two years ago when the Press sough out a vegan to see what they had for dinner. I remember him bragging about his Papaya desert. He spoke with this “I am better than YOU because I don’t eat Meat!” attitude.
PETA has a brain the size of a Turkey’s. That’s why they call it bird brain.
PETA=====LOW IQ GROUP RUN AMUCK
If you had a human drop dead inside a turkey enclosure, the birds would peck the corpse apart in short order.
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Correct, they are like their filthy cousin, the chicken, they’ll eat damn near anything.
Birds, pigs and goats are not discriminators when it comes to eating. Other animals too, I’m sure.
I’m reminded of the saying, “It’s a dog eat dog world”
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