PETA's Dog-Turkey Protests Thanksgiving Slaughter

This creature could actually be useful

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You know Thanksgiving is almost here when PETA creates an ad designed to kill the holiday buzz (and spare the main course). Cue the hybrid turkey-dog (durkey? toggie?) depicted on billboards slated to go up near public schools in Tulsa, Okla., Jacksonville, Fla., and Salem, Ore. (but clearly designed to garner as much controversy and press as possible). PETA asks, "Kids: If you wouldn't eat your dog, why eat a turkey?" and aims to bring attention to the abusive conditions some birds face on corporate farms.

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