Posted on 11/08/2021 8:50:00 AM PST by mylife
If you’re having turkey at your Thanksgiving, Karen Davis is not the guest you want at your table.
The president of United Poultry Concerns and a tireless advocate for chickens, turkeys and other farmed fowl, Davis can rattle off details and statistics about how turkeys are raised and “harvested” (industry-speak for slaughtered) that are guaranteed to curb — or kill — your appetite. But she’ll settle for three big reasons to skip the turkey this Thanksgiving: “Animal cruelty, disease, filth — the toxic waste in the conditions in which the birds are forced to live.”
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According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, close to 230 million turkeys were slaughtered in 2018 ― more than the number of Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 right now. Food production on that scale doesn’t happen in an idyllic farm setting; it happens in concentrated animal-feeding operations (CAFOs). The Environmental Protection Agency mandates a small CAFO be limited to 16,500 turkeys, while a large one can hold 55,000 or more.
At Davis’ sanctuary in Virginia — Tyson and Perdue territory — turkeys and chickens run free. “Turkeys like to run. They’re great walkers. But turkeys bred for the turkey meat industry are so disproportioned, with this big, heavy breast. Their toenails are cut off so they can’t grip the ground well,” she said. And anyway, there’s nowhere for them to go. Their brief lives are spent confined “beak to butt.
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Enjoy your Tofurky!
Democrats.. Sucking the joy out of life since 1963.
Watch out! They might join forces with the "Cranberry Sauce Liberation Front!"
Regards,
Mega-Dittos
humans are omnivores....
There's always a reset, I mean reason.
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Food-System-Transformation-Messaging-Guide_Feb-2021.pdf
In late 2019, The Rockefeller Foundation began a journey to develop a new initiative focused on transforming the food system in the United States to be more nourishing, equitable, and sustainable.
The left is trying to destroy our culture a little bit at a time.
They are chipping away at our history and traditions, and replacing them with their own vapid celebrations.
I will not not celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas nor fail to recognize the true hsitory and meaning behind them.
Yes, we are doing plenty right.
That’s why the left is trying so hard to change it all.
Don’t let it discourage you. Wear it as a badge of honor that you are annoying the leftists so much.
We may decide to have leg of lamb or rib roast. But that would not make the author happy.
Lobstah on my table for Thanksgiving. My fiancée agrees. :)
I grew up going to school right smack dab next to a turkey farm. We could call out to them over the fence and they’d answer back! There were multiple of thousands of them. They were out doors in the fresh air and sunshine with covered feeding stations all about, and buildings for them to shelter in at night. They had a ton of room to roam, and did so.
I dunno about other turkey farms, but this one was very good and I assume that other farms are too. Animals need a decent environment to thrive, and farmers seek to protect their huge investments.
I would suggest the author is ignorant and depends on the ignorance of others in order to persuade them to follow his/her counsel.
As for me and mine, turkey it is.
Yup I eat that too
article should have been titled: “How to Have a Meatless Thanksgiving” ...
I was just being a wiseguy.
Most of it is meatless, why must they whine?
I was always a dark meat person when it comes to poultry. Legs and thighs. And let me have the liver too!
I figured you for a neck guy.
Like cousin Eddie from Christmas Vacation
Experts offer a way to change tradition? It didn’t take an expert to tell me we are smoking a brisket this year instead of turkey.
OK.
Inflection does not come through in the written word.
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