Animal rights group PETA is being ridiculed online for its Thanksgiving campaign, in which a couple stuffs a turkey and makes lewd comments.
The promotional cartoon, which was shared online, shows a couple stuffing a turkey for Thanksgiving while their children watch from the kitchen door.
The speech bubbles coming out of their mouths show the father figure saying, “Let’s spread those legs,” while the woman says, “And stuff them all the way to the end.”
In the background, two children look on in horror and say “gross” and “yuck.”
While the animal rights group posted the poster with the intention of prompting people to buy vegan meals for Thanksgiving, it sparked a backlash from consumers.
“Only PETA would try to make cooking a family dinner weirdly sexual,” one user commented.
“Stuffing is one of the best parts of a Thanksgiving dinner,” declared another.
“You’re making it weird,” someone else objected.
The promotional cartoon, which was shared online, shows a couple stuffing a turkey for Thanksgiving while their children watch from the kitchen door.
“We have a biracial couple sexually assaulting a turkey in front of the kids and the family dog,” another user joked, attaching an image of Don Draper throwing something on Mad Men.
“I’m convinced this is a satirical story lmao gold,” someone else added.
‘Why is tf (fuck) PETA getting weird on my TL (timeline),’ one questioned.
PETA has long attracted attention for its controversial promotional posters and commercials.
In March, they criticized the concept of saying “cheese” before a photo, encouraging people to think about what it “really means.”
The group was ridiculed after suggesting people use new terms that “reflect our changing values” as younger people opt for dairy-free lifestyles.
The video, posted in March on calf-cow.” ‘”
Another shows two young women taking a selfie while saying: ‘Repeated and forced pregnancy!’ and a man cheers as he poses and says: ‘Dehorning and tail docking! Court!’
Animal rights group PETA is being ridiculed online for its Thanksgiving ad, which shows a couple stuffing a turkey making lewd comments.
While the animal rights group posted the poster with the intention of prompting people to buy vegan meals for Thanksgiving, it sparked a backlash from consumers.
The campaign, which continues to encourage viewers to say “peas”, “bees” or “nutritional yeast” instead of cheese, urges that “outdated and tired phrases” be replaced with “more animal-friendly phrases”.
But the post was met with outrage from people, many of whom took to social media to mock the campaign for its insistence on new pro-vegan terminology.
Earlier this week, turkey supplier Butterball came under fire from trolls after a shocking PETA investigation showed animal abuse inside the company’s factory before Thanksgiving.
Footage recorded by PETA two decades ago showed brutal abuse and torture of turkeys; Angry fans have been trolling the food giant’s social media pages as they demand Butterball take over.
PETA’s investigation showed workers sitting on turkeys, beating and fucking them, and sexually abusing them at the Ozark, Arkansas, facility in 2006.
An undisclosed investigator revealed the alleged atrocities he witnessed as workers “shackled and slaughtered” more than 50,000 turkeys each day, according to PETA.
In the shockingly graphic video, the investigator claimed he saw a Butterball employee sticking his finger into a turkey’s cloaca, or vagina, for “fun.”
Another worker allegedly “fucked” a turkey while he was restrained.
In response to the online backlash the company is receiving, a Butterball representative wrote to DailyMail.com: ‘We are aware of a video from almost 20 years ago, which is being re-shared on social media.
‘This video is not current and in no way reflects our animal welfare policies.
‘The care and welfare of animals is fundamental to who we are as a company and we are committed to the ethical and responsible care of our flocks. “That means maintaining the health and well-being of our turkeys is an ongoing effort.”
The spokesperson added that Butterball conducts annual third-party audits to ensure the facility meets “more than 200 science-based best practice standards for turkey care.”
The investigator recalled another disturbing case when a “worker taunted another by holding a bird by its legs and pulling it from side to side.”