[11-19-97 Wed] "Rebel" Fiona Apple proclaims "Save The Turkeys" this Thanksgiving season via a recorded message. Fiona is protesting the butchering of (especially) Butterball turkeys in association with PETA: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. On the organization's phone line is a recorded message from Apple to persuade listeners to serve something besides turkey this Thanksgiving.
The phone message is a response to a Butterball service that gives callers recipes for cooking their Thanksgiving turkeys and other turkey-day foods to go along with it. Apple says on the recording, "there is no proper way to kill and cook these beautiful birds." She gives an alternative of what she tells to be better tasting vegetarian recipes, saying that "millions of people are learning that a vegetarian diet is the healthy choice for themselves, the earth, and animals." You can hear her pleading and also get some holiday recipes by calling 1-888-VEG-FOOD.
Fiona Apple - November 19, 1997
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