In what has become a
Thanksgiving tradition, the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals is asking
for an end to a Thanksgiving tradition.
On Tuesday, PETA sent a letter
to President Obama asking him to skip the annual Thanksgiving turkey pardon, a
tradition that dates back to Abraham Lincoln. The letter sent by PETA president
Ingrid Newkirk said the ceremony “makes light of the mass slaughter of some 46
million gentle, intelligent birds” and “portrays the United States president as
being in some sort of business partnership with the turkey-killing industry.”
“We usually ask for other
things, but this is the first time we have asked (the president) to give the
ceremony a rest,’’ Newkirk told TODAY.com. “I think it’s just been building.
The time has come. It’s hard to find anybody who supports the idea of factory
farming, and there have been so many reports this year of the environmental
effects of factory farming. To have a president who is supposed to be
progressive standing there with an industry representative of factory farming
knowing about these environmental issues, it’s not very green to welcome him to
the White House and endorse factory farms.’’
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