Zombie Fronts Meat-Free Thanksgiving Campaign
Rocker/director Rob Zombie quit eating turkey at Thanksgiving when he
learned all about the methods farms use to fatten up fowl.
The animal lover insists he can't even look at a frozen Butterball turkey
anymore, and this Thanksgiving he's hoping to encourage others to give up
meat as part of a new People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals campaign.
Zombie is narrating the message on PETA's new holiday hotline,
1-888-VEG-FOOD, where callers can hear the "House of 1000 Corpses" director
warn that eating turkeys supports misery that even the horror king can't
stomach.
He says, "Every year, Butterball's Turkey Talk Line answers questions about
how to boil, broil, roast, and toast the bodies of these gentle, smart, and
social birds.
"What Butterball doesn't tell you is that it, like other meat companies,
tortures turkeys before they end up in grocery stores."
Zombie became a vegetarian in high school after seeing a documentary about
slaughterhouses: "It freaked me out, and I found it so disgusting that I
stopped eating meat."
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