NEW YORK (Nov. 26, 2008) – Last week former Republican Party vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin conducted a press conference at a turkey farm in Alaska, causing a minor media uproar over the fact that turkeys were being slaughtered in the background. Robert Peters, President of Morality in Media, had the following comments: This one hits home for me because I still remember accompanying my father to a turkey farm in the 1950s, watching him pick out a turkey, and watching the farmer cut the turkey’s head off. This was no “NC-17” or even an “R-rated” affair. My father also raised two ducks in a pen in the basement for food. Around the time they began getting used to my brother and I, dad removed their heads in the back yard. I cried then but have never since thought...
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