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In reply to the discussion: Memo to PETA: Go F *** Yourselves for traumatizing children. [View all]pnwmom
(108,977 posts)father about what was happening.
This situation couldn't be more different. A preschooler will only see an angry woman stabbing a bird with a large knife and blood on the faces of the children. But the preschooler's parent will see an entirely different scene -- a typical Thanksgiving dinner. The parent won't know what the child is seeing or vice versa. So they won't be able to talk about it with any degree of understanding.
If PETA only wanted to educate, rather than traumatize kids, then they would have made two pictures and placed them side by side -- to provoke thought and discussion. Instead, they embedded the violent picture into the Thanksgiving scene, and fixed it so only children would see the violent picture, and their parents wouldn't know what the were seeing.
This is a form of psychological assault and it shouldn't be legal.