Turkey Cruelty Ad Nixed By NBC

This ad was never going to be on TV, they knew that. They made it so that it could get rejected and they could call it "banned" - and therefore get press for it. Pretty sneaky sis.

whoa four of you commenters are responsible for about half the posts so far....pens out of ink? day out of sunshine?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6HAQ39YEF8

See link of eating Turkeys. Nothing gross.

Regardless of my thoughts on PETA, isn't it a little late to be airing that ad?

If your point is to stop people from killing and eating Thanksgiving turkeys, fine, but airing the ad on Thanksgiving morning defeats the purpose. I'd guess that most people already have their turkey in the oven at that point.

i love meat. i think peta sucks. however, this is the epitomy of the brilliance of a political system with free speech. should we all stop eating meat? hell no not a chance. but we should all be respectful of animals and aware that there are scumbags out there that get their kicks by abusing helpless critters. peta may be filled with a bunch of self righteous lunatics, but their main point is one that we must all remember.

that made me hungry. i'm going to get a bacon cheeseburger

hey,

why don't you scroll up and read valeriob's 1st comment and you'll see who called who ignorant first. maybe you'll also see that s/he is the one who is ignorant. oh, and fuck you.

lol, nice to see a gamut from the ignorant to the progressive thinkers (vegans) on gothamist. how can we get the non-veggies back onto foxnews.com?

How obnoxious to think that vegans are progressive thinkers just because of their diet. That's why most people, including myself, would opt to eat only vegans if that would make them feel better about our obvious heritage as omnivores.

Again a Flesh-eating diet contributes to global climate crises (land and water shortages), contributes to the cruelty and suffering of million and million of innocent species, contributes to poverty levels and contributes to war and to violence. Learn and understand how each individual has the control to end so much of his/her and others suffering. Peace begins on your plate.

http://www.fao.org/ag/magazine/0612sp1.htm

i am going to enjoy my animal-free feast (food)

spoken like a true ignoramus

I am going to cook 9 turkeys this thanksgiving. I'm so hungry for turkey meat............turkeyYY!111!!

How tragic that such ignorance has done so much ill to our planet.

http://www.countercurrents.org/us-cohen271103.htm

Would you care for a little cheese with that whine?

Oh, sorry, cheese comes from an animal as well.

So now that you learn where cheese comes from, do you know how it comes out? It blood and pus?

felixthecat2, I think you are super and I would marry you in a heartbeat, but you are wrong about PETA. I used to work for them, so I know of what I speak. Ingrid Newkirk is a douchebag on a power trip...she would rather kill the cats and dogs than try to find homes because she thinks all humans are rotten to the core. She is partially correct about humans, but her position on companion animals is hypocritical. PETA puts a spin on their "euthanasia" statistics. They also kill perfectly adoptable animals--lots of them--not just those who are suffering irremediably. Although PETA has helped bring animal rights a great deal of publicity, their stupid campaigns trivialize animal exploitation and suffering, just making it easier for people to dismiss AR as a joke.

Niloo: my main problem with PETA is exactly what you stated.

They basically hate people. I observed that fact years ago when I knew a few of them personally. Even you and Felix have agreed to a degree with their misanthropy.

PETA, ALF and extreme AR folks hate humans and transfer the love emotion instead to animals.

That is what is perverse about those groups. To say that one species is rotten and no others are is simply silly

Nothing personal, just saying what I have observed and it has never failed to be true.

Try loving thy neighbor. You'll like it. If not, better extract your canine teeth as a form of protest of your human condition.

Again, caring for animals doesn't mean you hate humans. If fact those that abuse animals also abuse humans. There are no degrees of compassion. Either you are compassionate or you're aren't

Like a printer, life is not black and white. It is full of gray tones and millions of colors.

Happy Thanksgiving day, whatever you eat!

Happy Thanksgiving Day, Hope you don't eat any animals.

The infighting helps the animal abusers. Just as I was sickened by the criticism of the ASPCA, I am sickened by the criticism of PETA. We will never agree with any org 100% but PETA has done a lot. They have put animal rights in the mainstream. do you know that when I meet a new Veg that they tell me that Peta free Veg Starter kit has turn them into vegetarians. All the criticism that their marketing and naked women hurts the cause is subjective. Most people don't take the time to READ and do independent Research. So sometimes a cool marketing strategy helps spread the message of compassion. Lastly, note that a lot of people that do criticize PETA are those that use and abuse animals for their own perverse needs. At the end of they Day, this isn't about PETA but about slaughtering million and million of turkeys on a Day of Thanks? How horrible and disgusting.

I understand your point, but I stand by my comments about PETA. Infighting is not the reason why people are still using and abusing animals. I am opposed to PETA's position on euthanasia, TNR, and the no kill movement. It is hypocritical and does nothing to further the cause of animal rights in general, only highlights the inconsistency in the AR movement's ideology. In my mind, PETA killing hundreds of thousands of healthy dogs and cats a year is not much different from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of turkeys at Thanksgiving, even though it is cloaked in moral self-righteousness, i.e. people abused these animals so badly, they are suffering irremediably and we are going to give them the "gift" of death...what crap! Treatable animals should not be killed. Also, I am vegan and do my best to live kindly, so it is not only animal abusers who are critical of PETA...as you said people should do their own research and thinking and not rely on press clips or what one reads on one web site.

If you and those who don't agree with Peta then you and they don't have to donate to them. What I don't understand are the attacks. The attacks should be on the Fur Industry, Meat Industry, etc that KILLS Millions of animals in a CRUEL manner. What i don't understand is instead of commenting on how the turkeys are cruelly slaughtered, people are commenting on how they don't like PETA. Why attack our own kind? Lastly, I met a few people of the no-kill movement that were convicted of animal cruelty and hoarding. IT seems to them that a life of suffering is better than death. I respect you but I don't agree with you on Peta. Have a slaughter-free, flesh-free, suffering-free Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving has a history of blood shed and I guess there are people who want to continue the blood shed on the falsity of traditions.

Is there any difference between airing this and one of those violence-filled ads that plague tv nowadays?

To be honest, I kind of see NBC's point. It's like airing a Santa Claus does not exist ad in the middle of it all. Little kids don't need more stimulation to get upset while mom is working full time to make that artificial bird taste good.

ignorant ? how dare you.

i don't believe that you'd feed the starving given the chance.

Sure, but being at the top of the food chain brings certain responsibilities. Like doing things a bit more HUMANELY!

Being that we are at the top of the food chain I see no reason why we shouldn't take full advantage of it. 45 million turkeys are slaughtered every year in the US. I say we can hit 50 Million.

It is you that sure be slaughtered because you are so filled with blackness that you can only post comment on abusing animals. You are a worthless piece of shit and we both know it.

challenge accepted.

Whiiiiiiiine. Let me at some of 'em Peta folks with my baster ...

Bah humbug! Such misanthropes. Typical PETA publicity stunt. What a bunch of turkeys.

From www.PETAkillsanimals.com

"Since 1998, PETA has opted to “put down” 21,339 adoptable dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens instead of finding homes for them."

It's all a $cam.

Peta rescue animals from the brink of death and they were euthanized to end their pain. the website that you keep posting was created by the fur,meat, slaughter house etc industry. Check your sources.

PETA's purpose is to save animals. Killing them is not saving them. Other humane organizations save or find homes. That is why PETA is hypocrisy at its worst.

If they spent the money they spend on self-promoting that turns most people off to AR and instead take care of the strays, feeding them till they find homes like others do, that would be money well spent and not hypocrisy.

Instead of self-promoting ads, why not spend the money on a neutering program? Oh, right, that would not be shown on gory ads that kids watch during the Tday parade.

And no matter the agenda of PETAkillsanimals.com, their stats are accurate and revealing. Never shoot the messenger.

Peta is a not a rescue org but does have a cruelty case manager that responds to reports of cruelty when the local SPCA doesn't. Also, rescue is only a component. We need to end the cycle of abuse which includes ending puppy mills. Peta doesn't only deal with dogs/cats but all other species as well. We need to spread the message of compassion otherwise the cycle of abuse continues. For every animal rescued, there is at least 1,000 that is bred for abuse.

"Lastly, note that a lot of people that do criticize PETA are those that use and abuse animals for their own perverse needs."

Statistics/references/cites please.

PETA could care less if we all starved, as long as the animals survive, and besides that they're not attractive, PETA that is, not the animals.

That turkey meat is desperately needed to feed the starving masses in the poor neighborhoods of NYC. It's like Ethiopia out there! How cruel of PETA to deny their fellow citizens this cheap and tasty source of protein. Bah humbug.

If you really did care about the hungry then you would know that the meat industry is contributing to the poverty level. It takes more water and grain to raise beef and poultry than to eat a non-flesh dinner. Give us a break. At least be honest

If you gave a hungry poor person a choice between a nice turkey dinner, roast chicken or juicy cheeseburger or a lump of slippery tofu and a pile bean sprouts, I guarantee you, they will take the meat dishes. That's because even if they are poor, they are sane.

Someone gave a homeless guy who would beg outside of a health food store near me one of their tofu/bean sprout sandwiches.

He gave it back, saying, "I ain't gonna eat that shit."

True story.

Then he wasn't hungry if he turn down food.

True, but that was part of the point. He was a parasitic professional beggar.

But you must admit it was a funny story: a 'hungry' man turning down tofu.

(FYI, I like tofu)

'Non-flesh dinner??'

Animals have been delicious for thousands of years.

You've been ignorant for 23, tops.

We forgive you, and are willing to share some bacon with you as a coming-out-of-ignorance peace offering. Time is limited because bacon is delicious so act fast!

It is you that is ignorant and uncaring of the cruelty of farm factories and the negative impact of the planet and our health. You never state any facts but just disagree to be an asshole. Get educated on the facts and have some compassion.

a tofurky is damn good alternative, damn good

Tofurkys are cruelly raised in confined conditions and then forced into cheap packaging and sold to douchebags. Hardly the stuff of guilt-free holiday gobbling.

Right... I'm sure it is...

it is. Try Candle 79 and Blossom. the most food and the kindest.

Yawn!

If it is so boring then why do you comment at all? You go out of your way to attack Peta for their mission to end animal cruelty. You are a mean person.

I go out of my way to attack PETA for their hyprocrisy, you dolt! I am not a mean person at all. In fact, everyone who knows me knows that I am extremely sweet (sometimes too sweet) and only have anger and hatred for injustice and hypocrisy. And it may seem that I hate you, when in fact, I do not. It is pity that I feel when I see you moving blindly through this world, refusing to see what is directly in front of you.

And if this was so boring then why have you returned to this post that made you yawn. FAIL

Whatever, Felix. You ALWAYS fail by choosing to call people names instead of commenting on direct questions put to you. Plus, you cannot prove me to be cruel because I am not. I'm sorry that you cannot see that eating animals is not cruel. I'm sorry that you choose to anthropomorphize animals into believe them to be better than humans. I'm sorry that your life will forever be haunted by these types of causes because you lack the social skills needed to interact with fellow human beings in a positive way.

Plenty of people on here have pointed your way to the fact that PETA is akin to an evangelical preacher who moonlights as a drug abusing whore. There is no need for me to do the same.

You don't like PETA because you don't agree that eating animals is cruel but it is cruel. That only is it cruel but is is selfish since it kills other species, destroy the planet (water/land shortage) and contributes to the poverty level which leads to Wasr. If you don't believe this then read the UN report. Lastly, because I know torturing and killing animals is cruel doesn't mean that I think that they are better than humans but that Humans should be better but they aren't

http://www.fao.org/ag/magazine/0612sp1.htm

You don't like PETA because you don't agree that eating animals is cruel but it is cruel. NOT only is it cruel but is is selfish since it kills other species, destroy the planet (water/land shortage) and contributes to the poverty level which leads to WARS. If you don't believe this then read the UN report. Lastly, because I know torturing and killing animals is cruel doesn't mean that I think that they are better than humans but that Humans should be better but they aren't

http://www.fao.org/ag/magazine/0612sp1.htm

Have you EVER watched a nature channel? Do you see animals eating other animals? Do you not know that humans are animals? Do you not know that we have incisors to cut through meat? Do you ALWAYS deny your own biology to try and prove a falsehood? You claim to love animals and yet you continuously reject their innate urges? Do you own pets? Do you only buy them vegan food? I'm sure you do, and I'll go along with your anthopomorphic wishes, and say that they probably hate you for it.

You can't chew meat without cooking it. And yes some animals are meant to eat other animals. Other animals such as Elephants, cows, horses etc live on plant based diet. My cat doesn't hate as people do. He is content since I am compassionate towards him. Again you avoid the issue, your flesh-eating diet contributes to the suffering of animals, to poverty levels, wars, climate crises, water shortage etc. I posted the link to the UN report that state FARM FACTORIES is the number one threat the global world faces.

Yes, you posted ONE link. And we all know that ONE source means that something is true. I could sit here and post links all day proving my side of this argument, but unlike you, I don't have all day. I contribute to society in a positive way by having a job that takes me away from the computer a lot of the time.

You mentioned that your cat cannot hate. WTF does that have to do with anything? Are you saying that people who eat animals hate them? If so, that is the most narrow minded thing I've heard in a LONG time. I eat animals to survive. I need the protein and soy just doesn't cut it. If you turned all of those farms into soy farms and that's all people ate, then the greenhouse gases would increase from those farms and the amount of farting we would all do.

steak tartare, sushi, carpaccio. all examples of eating meat without cooking it.

there is nothing to stop you from pulling a tuna out of the water and digging in (except that they are much better swimmers than we are and you probably couldn't catch one with your bare heands. yay for big, well developed, human brains, with their fire and their tools.

NO, I have pity for the animals that have to live in a world with cruel persons as you. how is peta hypocrites? You only insult with NO FACTS