Downtown Diners Get
Food for Thought From Vegetarians
For Immediate Release:
November 21, 2011
Contact:
Adam Miller 202-483-7382
Baltimore, Md. -- Gathered at a garish Thanksgiving table featuring a lifelike human baby as the centerpiece and framed by signs reading, "Everybody's Somebody's Baby," PETA members will converge on E. Pratt and Light streets in downtown Baltimore on Tuesday at lunchtime. PETA's point? That turkeys aren't even a year old when they're slaughtered for Thanksgiving. PETA encourages everyone to feast on delicious, meat-free holiday fare, such as Gardein Tuscan Breasts, Field Roast Celebration Roast, and Tofurky Roasts.
When: Tuesday, November 22, 12 noon
Where: The southeast corner of E. Pratt and Light streets, Baltimore
"If Baltimore residents thought about whose babies they were eating for Thanksgiving, they'd lose their appetites," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "By sticking to delicious faux fowl, diners can save a life and give turkeys something to be thankful for."
More than 250 million turkeys, most of them just months old, are killed in the U.S. every year—40 million for Thanksgiving dinners alone. In nature, turkeys are protective and loving parents as well as fast runners who are able to use reason to outwit their pursuers. But most turkeys slated to be killed for food are crammed into windowless warehouses, where disease, smothering, and heart attacks are common. Turkeys are drugged and bred to grow such unnaturally large upper bodies that their legs often become crippled under the weight. Countless birds slowly starve to death within inches of food after they become crippled and are unable to move.
For more information, please visit PETA.org.