WASHINGTON (TND) — A community note correction appeared on an X post by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Wednesday claiming turkeys and humans could theoretically switch places at the Thanksgiving table.
PETA’s post showed an illustration of turkeys praying around a dinner table. At the center of the table was a decapitated human corpse on a platter that appeared to have been cooked in an oven as a Thanksgiving meal.
The caption then asked readers to reconsider their choices on the holiday considering the strange reversal of roles.
“We’re lucky turkeys would never do this to us—you don’t have to do it to them, either,” the group wrote. The post was viewed nearly 40 million times.
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X users, however, felt the post was inaccurate and voted to place a community note correction beneath it to add additional context missing from the post.
“Turkeys are not vegetarians,” the community note reads. “Turkeys eat mice, lizards, frogs, and just about anything they can fit in their mouth. If turkeys were larger or had the technological means to farm and eat humans, their current diet reveals they likely would.”
Author and commentator Michael Knowles hailed the correction as “a hall-of-fame community note.”
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