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November 9, 2021
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Charlotte, N.C. – With Thanksgiving simply across the nook and turkeys from Plainville Farms—the place a PETA exposé revealed staff kicking, stomping on, and beating turkeys—nonetheless on Harris Teeter’s cabinets with “humanely raised” labels affixed, Babe and Succession star James Cromwell is hitting native airwaves as a priest who refuses to absolve the person who invented the time period “humane meat.” The TV spot concludes by telling viewers, “Abused turkeys offered at a retailer close to you. See the undercover video at PETA.org/Turkeys.”
“Any ‘humanely raised’ turkey on Harris Teeter’s cabinets might need been kicked or crushed,” says PETA Govt Vice President Tracy Reiman. “The one humane meal is a vegan one, and PETA encourages everybody to rejoice this 12 months’s vacation with a scrumptious ‘ThanksVegan’ feast that leaves animals off the desk.”
Plainville’s staff have been recorded routinely kicking and stomping on scores of turkeys, making an attempt and failing to interrupt turkeys’ necks and leaving them to convulse and die in agony on the ground, beating turkeys with a heavy rod, throwing hens at each other, and miming intercourse acts with the birds. Following PETA’s exposé, Complete Meals dropped Plainville as a provider, however the firm’s merchandise are nonetheless offered at Harris Teeter shops. As “Father” Cromwell says within the TV spot, “Oh, for the love of God, we’ve to attract the road someplace!”
PETA’s video will run on WBTV throughout the 5 and seven p.m. information broadcasts and through On Your Aspect Tonight via November 24—the day earlier than Thanksgiving.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals aren’t ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and presents a ThanksVegan guide on its web site with recipes, purchasing ideas, and extra. For extra details about PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please go to PETA.org or observe the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
