Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was fact-checked by Community Notes, a service on X, after PETA claimed in a viral post that turkeys will not eat humans on Thanksgiving.
“We’re lucky turkeys won’t do this to us—neither should you,” PETA captioned the post, which has received more than 26.7 million views online. The photo attached to the post depicts a family of turkeys sitting around a human turkey in the middle of a table.
“Turkey is not vegetarian,” according to Community Notes. “The Dutch eat mice, lizards, frogs, and anything else they can get into their mouths. If turkeys were bigger or had the technological means to farm and eat humans, their current diet reveals they probably would.
PETA’s post was mocked by political commentators online.
“Have you ever posted about how many birds are killed by wind turbines?” Republican strategist Scott Presler writes.
Another user congratulated Community Notes for calling out PETA.
“PETA got the attention of the community and it is one of the best,” wrote Tousi TV founder Mahyar Tousi.
“Community notes is an all-time champion,” wrote Cato Institute vice president Scott Lincicome. “Would never be over it.”
PETA president Ingrid Newkirk has updated her will to include requests for her flesh to be cooked, and for body parts to be turned into post-mortem activist messages.
“I’m very serious,” Newkirk previously said in an interview with Fox News Digital about his autopsy plans included in his will. He explained that he wanted his meat cooked with onions specifically in a “human barbecue” after he died to bring up the point that “meat is meat,” and how he believed that no one should eat animals.
Community Notes is a service provided by X to fact-check tweets.X / @peta
PETA president Ingrid Newkirk recently amended her will to request that her body be cremated with onions after her death.Getty Images
PETA did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
The artist who drew the original picture for PETA’s post, called “The Vegan Rapper,” also did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
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