PETA Takes Aim at Turkey, Texas: Wants Town Renamed ‘Tofurkey’
- Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:35pm by
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"Tofurkey, Texas"? PETA has asked the town of Turkey, Texas to rename themselves to the vegan alternative in honor of Thanksgiving. (Image source: Flickr user Meowster)
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has approached the residents of Turkey, Texas with a request: rename your town “Tofurkey” in honor of Thanksgiving.
Even if the name change to the mock meat vegan alternative is just for one day, PETA said it will draw attention to the treatment that turkeys in the U.S. suffer virtually every day of their lives.
In return, PETA said it will treat the entire town — population 421, according to the U.S. Census Bureau — to a “delicious, healthy vegan holiday feast.”
“Changing the town’s name to Tofurky will remind people around the country that we each can have a delicious, protein-packed, and satisfying Thanksgiving meal without supporting animal abuse,” PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman said in a letter Monday to the town’s mayor.
But local ABC affiliate KVII-TV spoke to a few locals who bristled at the idea of renaming their town.
“What do I think of changing the name of Turkey to tofu? I think it‘s about the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard,” Tommy Sims said.
“We are insulted,” resident Carol Redd added. “We like Turkey. We are proud to be Turkey.”
City officials reportedly have no plans to change the town’s name.
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From KVII, here is the full letter sent to Mayor Pat Carson of Turkey:
Dear Mayor Carson,
I am writing on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and our more than 3 million members and supporters, including thousands in Texas, with an idea that will boost Turkey into the spotlight and promote compassion: Rename your town “Tofurky” for Thanksgiving. If you agree to adopt this moniker for just one day, we’d be happy to provide a delicious, healthy vegan holiday feast for all the town’s residents.
Tofurky is a savory, flavorful, “meaty” vegan entrée with wild-rice and bread-crumb stuffing that is 100 percent cruelty-free. In contrast, virtually all turkey meat sold in the U.S. comes from factory farms, where birds are confined by the thousands to filthy, barren sheds. They are drugged and bred to grow such unnaturally large upper bodies that their legs often become crippled under the weight. These bright and social animals are denied everything that is natural and important to them, and at the slaughterhouse, turkeys are still conscious when their throats are slit. Changing the town’s name to Tofurky will remind people around the country that we each can have a delicious, protein-packed, and satisfying Thanksgiving meal without supporting animal abuse.
PETA’s feast would feature Tofurky with mushroom gravy, mashed potatoes (made with vegan margarine), and vegan apple pie topped with vanilla dairy-free ice cream. Introducing vegan cuisine to your residents would help improve their health: A vegan diet is free of the saturated animal fats and cholesterol found in meat and dairy products, and according to the American Dietetic Association, a vegan diet reduces the risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity.
Thanksgiving is the perfect time to rename your town and give turkeys, as well as your town’s citizens, something to gobble about! Please let me know of your decision.
Sincerely yours,
Tracy Reiman
Executive Vice President
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Comments (173)
Natasha88
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:14pmAs an activist Vegan, PETA disgusts me. They prefer stirring trouble where it’s undue and unnecessary. Who cares what its name is? They are also hypocrites. Almost all of the domestic pets who are turned into them as homeless animals are euthanized. There’s no excuse for that. They say stupid things like that fish are sea kittens, and they protest vermin extermination. Fish are NOT sea kittens. They’re FISH. And as a vegan I feel they don’t have to be cute to deserve rights against being treated as property. You want to see a group that actually cares about animals and not publicity, and gets things done? Look at the Animal Liberation Front. I love them. They are heroes.
Report Post »DJEyeDub
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:40pmReally!? Animal Liberation Front… they are more radical than PETA. That’s like syaing I prefer Mao over Stalin or Van Jones over Frances Fox Piven? Go sell your crap somwhere else.
Report Post »ErinLindsey
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:41pmI think PETA is insane. Probably because they’re not getting proper nutrition and vitamins that you would get if you eat meat. Their brains are the consistency of runny Jello.
Report Post »I_Hate_Libs
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:47pmI am going to eat a big-o-turkey on thanksgiving day and wash it down with some porterhouse steak as well. Animals are delicious.
TEA!
Report Post »Anyone But Obama 2012!
KenInIL
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:51pmPETA is good stuff – People Eating Tasty Animals. I’m all for it. What’s with the tofu – phooey !
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:06pmA Vegan? Really? Do you have pointy ears like Mr. Spock?
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:17pmAnimal Liberation Front are a bunch of terrorists! You love them? Stay the hell out of Washington State, you fool!- The ALF have done enough fire-bombing here already!
Report Post »Docrow
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:23pmI got a place for all of Gods creatures right next to my mash potatoes. ;-)
Report Post »Amica
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:41pmMy personal experience with “activist vegans” is that they elevate animals above humans. I say this because, while they would carefully tiptoe around a bug on the sidewalk, they will say the most vile and insulting things to people who disagree with them on what to eat. Here’s an actual quote (a mild one when compared to other things this person has said): “People who hunt should have their throats cut.”
alf (I intentionally don’t capitalize it) seeks to violently impose it’s ideology on everyone else.
Report Post »someonewhocares
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:58pmWhat a waste of time.
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos
Report Post »Buggs
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 4:09pmWhy are animals made out of meat if they are not for eating??
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 4:10pmHow stupid can PETA get!!!! Its a name. They can keep their tofu. Turkey was almost our National Bird.
Report Post »drago
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 4:18pmI ask that peta, and the animal liberation front do one thing for me, please make some tee-shirts up with say a wheel with asparagus spokes and a nice red tomato slice for the hub. You can call it a vegiwheel, ill call it a target……
Report Post »Kafir-Islamsux
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 4:27pmI guess is Natasha is a vegan she doesn’t suk dik…probably takes it elsewhere…
Report Post »Hunrodr
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:33pmPUT THE KITTEN DOWN and back away from the table!!!
Report Post »brokenwolf
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:06pma.l.f is nothing but a terorist organization,they destroy private property and ruin the lives and livlyhoods of decent hard working americans,they should all be arrested and jailed like the common thugs they are
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:18pmso you’re not even allowed to name something after an animal? really? who’s next?
Report Post »Jaguar, Couger, Lynx, Eagle, Kodiak, Grizzly, etc.. etc.. etc…
ViewPointtt
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:35amUntil recently, I was also a Vegan… and like most Vegans relied heavily on Tofu/Soy… thenl I discovered soy beans contain estrogen. Excessive estrogen feminizes males and causes additional health problems for all consumers. Soy is confirmed as the root cause of especially small genitalia in generations of Japanese male babies. Even if a diet does not include Tofu and soy milk, soy is increasingly difficult to avoid… because our food supply is now saturated with soy. Is it just a coincidence that soy is so opportunely instrumental for a sterilization/ depopulation scheme? No need to read the labels on trusted products? Wesson’s Vegetable Oil is now 100% soy oil… Best Foods Mayonnaise in now made with soy oil… most salad dresssings and sauces now contain soy oil… butter-like spreads such as I Cant Believe it’s not Butter, Country Crock, cooking oil sprays such as Pam, are now made with soy… most breads, crackers and chips are now made with soy oil… Bisquick pancake mix now contains soy… most organic packaged foods also contain soy. Read your labels and avoid soy unless you are content to be a feminized male and sterilized (both genders). In addition to male-feminization and sterilization, other consequences of excessive estrogen include; weight gain, headaches, infections, fatigue, fibroids, Osteoporosis, irregular periods, cramps, hot flashes, depression, panic attacks, mood swings and memory loss.
Report Post »WeekendAtBernankes
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:53pmBlow ‘em out the airlock. What a bunch of condescending idiots. These PETA turkeys are lucky their organization brings in enough money to employ them because they’re too dumb to earn a living doing anything else.
BTW PETA are notorious for animal abuse. Nothing noble about killing a van full of stray cats and dogs with a hammer and illegally disposing of the corpses in a grocery store dumpster. Look it up.
Report Post »Hatchett
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:10pmI agree with PETA(can’t believe I said that) that turkeys and chickens are treated horrifically by the plants. Don’t believe it? Visit Tyson, Pilgrim’s Pride, or any other major poultry plant. But instead of using their members to do something real, the idiots chase whatever they can to get on the news for being morons.
Report Post »Natasha88
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:19pmExactly. This is exactly what I think. PETA is such a bad representation of Veganism. They make us all look like clowns and low lives. Check out the ALF. They are a lot more effective and much less media whores.
Report Post »Amica
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:42pmI agree, natasha, they’re not media whores, they’re violent terrorists.
Report Post »rlmeals
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:05pmAs I was reading that ridiculous letter, I got to that part and thought, “Yeah, I agree with that.” But my answer isn’t to never eat any animal meat or byproduct ever again. I try to buy from local farmers who sell grass fed beef with no antibiotics or growth hormones. Same with chickens; free range and no drugs. We are also avid hunters who stock our freezer full of deer meat every fall, and we’re hoping to harvest a turkey for Thanksgiving. Some of my friends and family think I’m going “hippie” all of a sudden, but just because I agree with some of the things liberals agree with, doesn’t mean I agree with their politics. PETA is stupid!
Have you seen the conditions that chickens are kept in at places like the Tyson contracted farms? They are given hormones to fatten them up so fast that they can’t even walk a few steps without collapsing. It’s because they are growing at twice the rate in half the time a normal chicken would. They have so much weight on them from growing so large that their organs can‘t function and their legs can’t hold the weight. They have lots of chickens just keel over and die. Ethically, that’s no way to treat an animal. Even hunters believe that you should respect these animals. And what‘s just as bad is that we actually think it’s okay to eat these sick creatures! What do you think that’s doing to our bodies?! I think God gave us exactly what we need to survive, and there’s no point screwing that up with all the crap we
Report Post »geonj
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:06pmlook at the problem with feral pigs. the ethical treatment of them is to hunt them and eat their delicious meat.
Report Post »code green
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 4:07pmOnly the ones under 170#. Otherwise feed the coyotes.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:03pmAh,screw “em.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:07pmWell, the one positive thing I can think of, that will be coming out of the soon to arrive economic collapse, is that these politically correct idiots who only know how to complain, will be starving to death, because while they were learning how to organize and cause trouble…..we were out learning how to survive and acquiring a work ethic….
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:12pmPETA – STAY OUT OF TEXAS !! Go back to Cali where you belong. We do not need any city changing their name to a vegetarian dish just for your likings.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:16pmThe idiots who comprise PETA should go out and get a JOB. They should really do something constructive with their time rather than sitting atound dreaming up inane stupidity such as this.
TURKEY, TEXAS: KEEP YOUR NAME JUST AS IT IS AND TELL PETA TO GO SIT ON A ROTATING CORKSCREW!!!!!
Report Post »Jomil48
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:00pmAll this talk just makes me want to get out the shotgun and go turkey huntin, anyone up for it
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:11pmIf I were up north (Michigan) .. yes .. but I haven’t seen any in Florida. I will go “hunting” in the grocery store .. and do my part .. EAT MORE TURKEY!
TEA!
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:44pmI shot my first turkey when I was sixteen. I knew the store owner and all I had to pay for was the refrigeration case and a little paint damage. I go out in the woods now to call em.
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:08pmCome to Texas! We have Rio running all over the place. Not to mention pigs. Nothing better than turkey with a good ham on Thanksgiving :) Eat that PETA
Report Post »Amica
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:44pmI’m in! Can we stop at McDonalds?
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:59pmPETA Takes Aim at Turkey, Texas: Wants Town Renamed ‘Tofurkey’
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No. Now go away.
MsMonsoon
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:08pmI’ll stop eating animals when animals stop eating other animals.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:47pmI’m going to go eat some broiled animal flesh, myself.
B – U – R – G – E – R !!!!
….then later tonight I’m going to the Texas Roadhouse Restaurant in my town and have some baby back ribs.
Go “F” yourself, PETA
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:58pmP.E.T.A. People for the Eating of Tasty Animals.
or P.E.D.A. People for the Eating and Domestication of Animals.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:01pmThey just made my pet mushroom cry.
Report Post »W@nd@
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:55pmWhat happens to the earth if you do not harvest animals like you do crops…?
Report Post »You have overpopulation and disease…
some of which is transferable to humans (swine flu etc…)
So if we just let things go
will we be over run with wildlife,
including snakes and all the things you would love see take over your home?…NOT!
I wish these people would just get over themselves !
People who think they should control everyone elses decision making and
allow them to control the world at best are misguided!
Truthfully, I do not think they have a clue what they would actually cause,
directly and indirectly, by their meddling and their tampering…Hello!
But their big brains assure themselves they all knowingly know best!
But pridefully.. ignorantly put everyone in peril! Vegans included!
Mormyo
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:55pmPETA = PEOPLE EATING TASTY ANIMALS
Report Post »Its the circle of life.
Baddoggy
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:55pmBeen through Turkey Texas many times. I am sure the people of Turkey will tell PETA where to stuff their Tofurkey…Sideways.
Report Post »redgypsy
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:54pmTalk about people with WAAAY too much time on their hands! And apparently with nothing to occupy their brains.
Report Post »Wait… the zombies must have already gotten to them.
biohazard23
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:54pmPETA = potential ingredients for Soylent Green
Report Post »netmail
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:06pmIf I lived in Turkey, I’d probably want to feed my dog a piece of PETA for their Thanksgiving supper.
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:54pmTheir comment about a “delicious, healthy vegan holiday feast” makes me want to vomit.
As someone who sees the Weston A. Price kind of diet as ideal, their kind of meal is just about as close to nightmare food as I can think of.
Report Post »hightide
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:52pmIdiots… and not very usefull.
Report Post »Uncurable wound
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:51pmlets just skip the middleman and start eating PETA people.
Report Post »They look and act like Turkey’s anyways
SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:50pm.
Report Post »PETA that hole in the side of your head is to hear with, so pull your pants up………
Gonzo
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:59pmLooks like UGA and LSU in the SEC Championship Monkey. It;’s payback time for the beating the Saints put on the Falcons. :-)…and no, I will not put my money where my mouth is. I will put up an LSU icon as my avatar for a week if you agree to put up a UGA avatar for a week if by some miracle they win. What do you say?
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:08pm.
Sounds like good fun count me in Gonzo………Who Dat!……..
Tiger Bait, Tiger Bait, Tiger Bait……..
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:13pmWoof, woof, woof!
Report Post »Goobergregory
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:48pmDo these people even HAVE lives??? OVER AND OUT!
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:48pmWay to go peta. There‘s a lot of turkeys out there that’s had their feelings hurt by having a Turkey, Texas. You ought to be proud to have recognition other than around Thanksgiving. Hold your head up while I aim. I grace my table with your cousins several times a year while saying a prayer over their dead delicious body. Happy Thanksgiving, TEA .
Report Post »mdlwoods
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:46pmBACK OFF, PETA! Leave Turkey alone! You are messing with the home of Bob Wills and them thar‘s fightin’ words in Texas!!!
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:04pm@MDLWOODS…..Ahh…you are obviously a person of class, to know that Turkey is indeed the hometown of the great Bob Wills.
Report Post »Texas Hills Patriot
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:07pmAgree 100%. You start messing with Bob Wills in Texas and you’ve got a problem!
Report Post »Amica
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:47pmUm…my sincerest apologies, but who is Bob Wills?
Report Post »chips1
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:11pmIt’s Chill Wills brother.
Report Post »Swancman
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:46pmHow stupid does PETA think people are? Don’t you just want to punch someone from PETA?!
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:58pmI would rather simply defecate on the whole lot of them.
Report Post »tenacgurl
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:10pmthese PETA radicals need to go live on another planet where animals rule…….kinda like the revenge of the Apes. What a bunch of turkey crap………………Leave TEXAS the heck alone !!!!
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:16pmHey, let’s declare a “Punch a PETA in the face day!”
Report Post »randy
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:45pmAnd I think San Francisco should change their name to Wasteland, California.
Report Post »I SPY
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:44pmPETA is a joke.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:44pmPETA is… a Turkey… and should change their name Ecological Communists!
Report Post »Jomil48
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:42pmI believe in PETA , People who Eat Tasty Animals.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:40pmI told myself I would not respond and waste my time responding about this stupid, moronic story… oh, I guess i just did….
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:42pmyep, these people need to get a life
Report Post »wewantchillywilly
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:27pmOLDGUY49
Pot. kettle. black.
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