Greenpeace stages a comedy 'roast' between a talking turkey and a potato in its ‘alternative Christmas advert'

Greenpeace has a talking potato battling a talking turkey in a parody of a comedy roast for it's 2019 “alternative Christmas advert”.

The environmental charity said the advert is designed to highlight the impact eating meat has on deforestation. 

Set in a dingy comedy club, the advert features two of the leading characters of a traditional Christmas lunch hurling insults at one another.

“The burns are harsh, and the crowd is loving it until Potato takes it too far, exposing Turkey's dirty little secret,” said turkey actor and scriptwriter Jack Barry, according to the Daily Mail.

The video features the potato and the turkey hurling insults at each other on stage in a dingey looking nightclub.

The turkey opens with “It's great to be here roasting the humble potato. People call it a staple food because you'd rather staple your lips together than eat it.”

The potato, played by Annie McGrath, responded with: “That's rich considering people only eat turkey for one day of the year. Probably because they need the other 364 for their mouths to re-hydrate.”

The insults kept flowing back and forth until a line from turkey triggered an alarm.

Turkey said: “You're dull, you're pasty white and you're impossible to get rid of. You're the Piers Morgan of the Christmas lunch.” 

Things went quiet in the room when potato told the audience that the turkey eats feed that came from the rain forest. Saying: 'We all know you're dirty little feed habit is destroying the planet. 

“They have to chop down so many trees to grow his food he may as well of come here in a hummer powered by hair spray, cow farts and the broken dreams of Greta Thunberg”.

Greenpeace says it felt the need to create the advert to make people realise the impact their eating habits are having on the environment. 

The campaign group says two thirds of the UK's soya is imported from South America, where it is a leading cause of deforestation.

“An area of land the size of Glasgow would be needed to grow enough soya to fatten the 10 million turkeys Brits eat every Christmas,” a spokesperson said.

The group says the factory farms fattening turkeys for Christmas know the feed they use is linked to forest destruction but people play the biggest part in reducing the amount of meat being sold. 

“We can all make a choice to eat less meat. The world's top scientists say it's vital to prevent climate breakdown,” says Chiara Vitali from Greenpeace UK.

The group says the factory farms fattening turkeys for Christmas know the feed they use is linked to forest destruction but people play the biggest part in reducing the amount of meat being sold. 

“We can all make a choice to eat less meat. The world's top scientists say it's vital to prevent climate breakdown,” said Chiara Vitali from Greenpeace UK.

She said supermarkets like Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda pledging to 'remove deforestation from their supply chain' don't go far enough.

“This isn't about switching from one type of feed to another. They need to listen to the science and replace most of the meat they're selling with plant based alternatives, and they need to do it fast.”