Shock and anger as PETA plan Dublin advert featuring severed human leg

An animal rights organisation is being criticised for planning to use a human leg in their advertising campaign. They have openly admitted it is "inspired" by the severed leg found in a Dublin recycling facility.

Shock and anger as PETA plan Dublin advert featuring severed human leg

People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) plan to run an advert depicting a servered human leg served on a dinner plate “to remind Dubliners that all meat is murder".

In a statement, the organisation admits that the inspiration for the much-criticised advert came after the recent discovery of body parts in the Thorntons Recycling Centre in Dublin.

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