PETA plans banner over I-40
Published: Wed, Nov. 19, 2008 02:26PM
Modified Wed, Nov. 19, 2008 02:29PM
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closeMembers of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plan to unfurl a banner reading "Thanksgiving Is Murder On Turkeys" on an Interstate 40 overpass in Cary on Thursday afternoon.
The group hopes the banner will raise awareness about the slaughter of turkeys, said PETA member Allison Norris of Raleigh.
She said PETA members would unfurl the banner at 4:30 p.m. on the Old Reedy Creek Road overpass over I-40, just west of the Harrison Avenue interchange. The group will be placing similar banners in other cities in the United States and Canada, she said.
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The national PETA organization today posted video on its Web site www.peta.org of workers stomping on turkeys' heads, twisting their necks and otherwise mistreating the animals. The organization said a PETA investigator shot the video at Aviagen farms in West Virginia.
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