PETA Banned Thanksgiving Ad "Grace"

NBC passed on airing a PETA commercial on turkey cruelty during its Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the animal cruelty activist groups says. The commercial shows a girl saying grace before her families Thanksgiving feast. During her prayer, she tells her family -- as PETA describes it -- "exactly like it is for turkeys who are killed for holiday meals." PETA says that NBC first asked for more information to substantiate the claims. The groups says it provided the network with a New York Times article on the abuses turkeys face, but the article provided was actually an op-ed piece from 2003 by Patrick Martins, the director of Slow Food USA NBC ultimately rejected the ad, PETA says: Thanksgiving can be the scariest time of year if you're a turkey. More than 45 million of these fascinating birds are killed to disgrace Thanksgiving tables each year. In hopes of empowering kids everywhere to speak out as their families adorn their Thanksgiving tables with dead birds, PETA offers its Thanskgiving ad, 'Grace.' In the ad, you hear from one straightforward little girl as she tells it exactly like it is for turkeys who are killed for holiday meals when asked to say grace around her family's dinner table. Despite the fact that it contains nothing graphic, NBC has rejected the ad, which was submitted to air during the iconic Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. When not forced to live on filthy factory farms, turkeys spend their days caring for their young, building nests, foraging for ...

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