Animal rights activists published a post where turkeys eat humans, and ran into a wave of criticism

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was fact-checked by Community Notes on Platform X after PETA posted that turkeys never eat people at Thanksgiving, so people shouldn't eat them either.... The edition told in more detail Fox News.

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“We're lucky turkeys would never do this to us, and you shouldn't do this to them,” PETA wrote in the caption of the post, which has received more than 26,7 million views online. The photo accompanying the post shows a family of turkeys sitting around a cooked human turkey in the center of the table.

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“Turkeys are not vegetarians,” the community note reads. “They eat mice, lizards, frogs and just about anything that can fit in their mouth. If turkeys were larger or had the technological ability to breed and eat humans, their current diet suggests they would likely do so.”

We're lucky turkeys would never do this to us—you don't have to do it to them, either.

Art by @freebison pic.twitter.com/StSJlbxgte

—PETA (@peta) November 22, 2023

PETA's message was ridiculed by many commentators, including politicians.

“Have you ever written about how many birds wind turbines kill?” Republican strategist Scott Presler retorted.

Other users congratulated Community Notes for bringing PETA to attention.

“PETA dedicated a note, which is good,” wrote Tousi TV founder Mahyar Thusi.

PETA President Ingrid Newkirk responded to the backlash to the post in a statement.

“It’s as if people don’t know how to read and laugh until the very end. PETA didn't say turkeys are vegetarians. We said they don't eat people and we should show them the courtesy back," Newkirk wrote.

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Newkirk had previously updated her will to include a request that her flesh be cooked as a dish and her body parts turned into activist messages after her death.

“I’m as serious as I can be,” Newkirk told Fox News Digital about her posthumous plans included in her will. She wants her flesh to be cooked with onions in the form of "human kebabs" after death to convey the message that "flesh is flesh" and that, in her opinion, no one should eat animals.

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