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November 5, 2021
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New York – Now that 47% of Americans want to incorporate more vegan foods into their meals—and after PETA caught staff kicking, stomping on, and beating turkeys bought by companies with “humanely raised” labels—this Thanksgiving is poised to be probably the most vegan one but, so PETA despatched a letter to Will Coss, vp and government producer of Macy’s Branded Leisure, asking him to acknowledge evolving traditions and embody PETA’s “Go Vegan for ThanksVegan” banner on the turkey float within the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
“If Macy’s well-known Tom Turkey float may speak, he’d definitely encourage Individuals to go away mild birds like him off the Thanksgiving desk,” says PETA Government Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is raring to assist usher in a brand new ThanksVegan parade that displays the truth that many Individuals will gobble up a vegan feast this yr.”
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals will not be ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra info, please go to PETA.org or observe the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
PETA’s letter to Cross follows.
November 4, 2021
Will Coss
Vice President and Government Producer
Macy’s Branded Leisure
Pricey Mr. Coss:
Greetings from Individuals for the Moral Remedy of Animals (PETA), and congratulations in your first yr chargeable for planning the world-famous Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. To leap-start your new function, we’ve a suggestion: Set a compassionate development this yr by permitting us to hold our new “Go Vegan for ThanksVegan!” banner on the turkey float.
Turkeys are delicate and clever beings who really feel pleasure, love, concern, and ache and don’t need to be killed—that’s why hundreds of Individuals are embracing “ThanksVegan,” a day to feast on meat-free roasts, mashed potatoes made with dairy-free milk and butter, vegan pie, and extra. It will be simple so that you can embody a compassionate message through the parade—we’ve already mocked up a one-of-a-kind ThanksVegan banner to make use of plus an indication for the turkey to carry, and we’d be completely happy to ship these to you beforehand and canopy manufacturing prices.
Investigations into turkey farms have repeatedly revealed horrific abuse. A recent PETA investigation confirmed how staff at Plainville Farms’ “humane” turkey suppliers’ farms kicked, stomped on, and beat birds with a heavy rod. Our investigator noticed staff throw birds by their wings, necks, heads, and snoods (the fleshy appendage beneath male birds’ chins). Employees choked the terrified turkeys, used their our bodies to imitate intercourse acts, and extra. Complete Meals discovered the footage “extremely upsetting and unacceptable” and stopped promoting turkeys from Plainville Farms, but different large chains proceed to work with the corporate.
The variety of Individuals consuming vegan has elevated by 300% over the past 15 years, and retail gross sales of meatless meat reached $7 billion in 2020. There are a great deal of vegan roasts obtainable in well-liked grocery shops nationwide, too, like Field Roast’s Hazelnut & Cranberry Plant-Based Roast and Celebration Roast, Gardein’s Holiday Roast full of cranberries and wild rice, Tofurky’s Veggie Roast, and so many more.
We hope to listen to that you’ll undertake a brand new custom rooted in kindness and encourage compassion for all beings this Thanksgiving with our new banner.
Sincerely,
Tracy Reiman
Government Vice President
