PETA's Thanksgiving Turkey Ad NBC Won't Air (VIDEO)

The animals rights group PETA is known for its shock tactics and pushing the envelope with its ads. Past ads that networks refused to air include the "veggie sex" ad slated to run during the Superbowl, and Pamela Anderson's stripping airport cop video. This ad, however, doesn't use sex or naked people to make people squirm.

According to PETA's blog:

When we first submitted our newest commercial to NBC in the hopes of running it during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the station asked us to give more information about the cruelty behind turkey slaughter to back up the statements made in the ad. But even after we sent the network this New York Times article chronicling the grisly facts about turkey factory farming, it nixed the ad, claiming that "this commercial does not meet NBC Universal standards."

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'Grace': PETA's Thanksgiving ad

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Comments

[ls239a]

12:25 AM on 12/04/2009

1. Human's are omnivores and eating a turkey is nothing to feel guilty for. 2. I support treating animals more "humanely"­. However, at the end of the day, you still have to chop their heads and pluck their feathers in order eat them, no matter how they're raised. 3. I think commercial­s like this get such strong emotional responses because obviously American society no longer interacts with the food they eat. My grandfathe­r was raised on a farm and was slaughteri­ng chickens by the age of 8 for a daily chore for his family's evening meal. We could raise each turkey in it's own individual mansion, but we still have to kill it if it is to be eaten.4. PETA asks us in this commercial to go Vegan which is not only unnatural, but unhealthy. 5. Even if we treated each turkey like a king, but killed it PETA would still be around because PETA equates killing animals with immorality­. Animals killing other animals for food is about as normal and ethical as it gets. Good Job NBC

[Amishguy]

09:55 PM on 11/28/2009

PETA is a terrorist organizati­on. Before you attack that statement please review their activities through the A.L.F.

I'm all for stopping animal abuse. I don't think thats right but... go vegan?! Thats not even natural.

Just another example of a group using fear and shock to promote their own ideology.

NBC was right in rejecting that commercial­. If I were them I wouldn't want to give those terrorists any support either.

[LeeCalif]

07:34 PM on 11/27/2009

How can networks legally refuse to air that ??

Aren't networks owned by us ?

[AcaciaJules]

09:08 PM on 11/27/2009

Um, noooooo. In what world were they ever? They're owned by the people who PAY for the air time, and they can pick what advertisem­ents are put in. Advertiser­s PAY to put their commercial­s in, but it's still the network's decision.

Seriously though, where do you get the idea they were owned by us? This isn't Britain, and NBC isn't the BBC, which is paid for via a charge payed by all citizens whom own a television­. Nor is it PBS, which is paid for by donations and government support.

[SEQUOIABISON]

10:10 AM on 11/28/2009

The FCC is a government run agency responsibl­e for licensing TV and Radio broadcasti­ng. Since We the people are the government I think it would be fair to say that we have some control over who does or does not get their license renewed.

[mikebarden]

09:36 PM on 11/28/2009

It works this way:
The government owns the airways, and gives out licenses to use them.
But has a TV station ever lost it's license?

[SangZe]

09:25 AM on 11/27/2009

As far as I'm concerned, PETA can go stuff it.

[patianneb]

03:36 PM on 11/27/2009

What I find most amazing is that so many people are so angry at the whistle blowers and content to be herded along by the corporate giants to the sugar-salt -fat-growt­h hormone-st­eroid grazing fields without question or bleat.

[LeeCalif]

07:32 PM on 11/27/2009

Ya. Like Sang.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

10:07 PM on 11/28/2009

It's more fun to be cruising down de Nile.

[voter42]

08:30 AM on 11/27/2009

My father used to get our turkey from the slaughterh­ouse. I think if I ever saw that process, I wouldn't eat meat, but I get my turkey from a store as well as all the rest of my meat so I enjoy turkey, ham, chicken and beef regularly. I turn the channel when PETA ads are on tv, not becuase they don't sometimes make valid points, but because they are extremists about it.

[xstevejx]

12:07 AM on 11/28/2009

Just like you can't take Greenpeace seriously! It's too bad that some organizati­ons have to turn their causes into jokes through extremism.

[LazyLearner]

08:22 AM on 11/28/2009

@voter42 you nailed it! Anti-logic extremism

"I know the truth but I willingly pretend it does not exist"

You have found the most important reason why the world is so f***ed up!

[iLoveOldNY]

08:03 AM on 11/27/2009

My Thanksgivi­ng turkey was delicious. Thanksgivi­ng without turkey is not Thanksgivi­ng - even if you don't eat it. It needs to be there, cooked, even if it is just a prop.

[TJ IMP]

04:46 AM on 11/27/2009

If that were MY child making disrespect­ful remarks like that at a dinner table, after someone had cooked for hours and hours... she'd go to bed without dinner!

[LeeCalif]

07:33 PM on 11/27/2009

The truth is disrespect­ful ??????

You a turkey breeder ?

[xstevejx]

03:36 PM on 11/26/2009

I give thanks to readily available meat today! ;-)

[d julien]

01:30 PM on 11/26/2009

Interestin­g reading these comments. There are arguments coming from both extremes as well as everything in between. My take is that I do not demonize meat eaters but we need to move away from sport hunting( killing animals fo the fun of it) We need to move away from factory farms( conditions so brutal, appalling and inhumane and unhealthy that most folks, even meat eaters, would be totally digusted and appalled if they actually saw what was going on) and move away from a meat-cente­red diet( which is unhealthy for the eater and the planet). I have not eaten animals in 35 years and that is my personal choice. I do not proslytize­. (Some of my best friends are meat eaters!) But this is not simply a personal choice. During slavery, those who owned slaves may have said to the abolishoni­sts: You do your thing and I'll do mine. But there is the matter of universall­y held beliefs of humane and compassion­ate behavior. I don't think we will become a society of vegetarian­s. But I do think we can move toward a society that treats animals and humans more humanely and with more compassion­. Now please pass the stuffed squash....

[Jasel]

01:19 PM on 11/26/2009

omg that was hilarious!­!

[thinkingwomanmillstone]

01:07 PM on 11/26/2009

Come on over, we're having buffalo style kittens for hor dourves.

[Jimboy17]

01:11 PM on 11/26/2009

Buffaloes are endangered­!

[Vickster]

11:18 PM on 11/26/2009

I have a friend who raises buffalo for meat. They are not endangered animals.

[scottco]

03:21 PM on 11/28/2009

No Buffaloes wre harmed in the making of the hors d'oeuvres.
It's simply a vinegare based hot sauce and bleu cheese dip served WITH the deep fried kittens. More accurately referred to as "buffalo style" kittens.

[Elyriaohio]

07:15 AM on 11/27/2009

I prefer the herb-crust­ed Calico or a pickled Persian.

[thinkingwomanmillstone]

09:43 AM on 11/27/2009

What wine do you recommend?

[Christopher Coombs]

12:48 PM on 11/26/2009

I didn't read all the comments, but did anyone notice that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals used a cooked turkey to help make their point?

[MizK]

07:06 PM on 11/27/2009

Good point! It might have been a prop...

[patianneb]

11:03 AM on 11/26/2009

NBC claimed the spot didn't meet their standards.
STANDARDS?
What they have isn't standards, it's advertiser­s.

Also, as always I'm amazed by the number of people who comment in columns such as this with what can only be called defensive offensiven­ess.
Man up, folks and admit it: You want the turkey, you want lots and you want it cheap, and you don't give a rip about what it costs in any sense, or who or what suffers as a result. Own it.

[smolenski]

04:41 PM on 11/28/2009

If the commercial had also blamed Bush and Republican­s, then NBC would have aired it.

[AD sandiego]

04:09 PM on 11/25/2009

PET A’s report for 2008, filed with the Virginia Department of Agricultur­e and Consumer Services, shows that they k.||led 95 percent of the dogs and cats in their care last year. During all of 2008, PET A found adoptive homes for just seven pets. Just seven animals -- out of the 2,216 they took in.

Instead, they spent all the money on propaganda and exploiting women (misguided celebritie­s getting naked) on advertisin­g. The money could have been used to effect shelter and adoption for the animals k.||ed by PETA.

I gotta go stuff the turkey.

[john88]

04:31 PM on 11/25/2009

Thanks for the info, 7 pets, but lots of media. How many children could they have fed with all that media.

[iamjustsaying]

02:58 PM on 11/25/2009

Even funnier the second time I watched it.