PETA to Bring Mobile Billboard to Turkey Testicle Fest

HUNTLEY, IL – PETA plans to be out at Huntley’s Turkey Testicle Festival Wednesday. The organization will loop past Parkside Pub, the site of the popular, annual fest that serves up deep-fried turkey testicles, with a mobile billboard. The billboard will show a bloody cleaver about to come down on a turkey's head and the message, "Thanksgiving Is Murder on Turkeys. Spare Me the Chop. Choose Vegan Every Holiday."

"Sensitive young birds who don't want to die are strung up and slaughtered by the millions for Thanksgiving tables and festival snacks that would make most people gag," said PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. "PETA urges everyone to have a heart and keep all animal body parts out of their mouths on Thanksgiving and year round."

The mobile billboard will circle the downtown areas from noon to 8 p.m. The Turkey Testicle Festival at Parkside Pub begins at 11 a.m. and continues through midnight.

PETA has placed several other pro-vegan ads across the U.S. in the days leading up to Thanksgiving, including inside the Rapid City Regional Airport in South Dakota and on billboards in Denver, Minneapolis, Boston, Las Vegas, Houston, and Fort Myers, Florida.

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