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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Let’s change this too.
Enjoy a tofurkey!
It’s articles like this that make me miss Rush Limbaugh.
Yes, let’s destroy another beloved tradition for no reason under the sun.
I can only do smoked turkey any more. The regular turkey has tasted off/old to me the last few years...
These people can just kiss my shiny white behind.
More advice from overfed, privlidged schizophrenics.
If the killing of turkeys so human beings can eat bothers you, but it's totally awesome that 60 million American human babies have been aborted in my lifetime ... you might be a Democrat.
FUHP
Also more than the number of backgammon sets sold in Indonesia. WTF does the number of turkeys eaten have to do with vaccinations for the Wuhan Plague?
NUTS!
Of course, the busybody’s name is Karen...
Normalizing the shortage.
Turkey is the conduit to serve the other things that go with it: mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, stuffing, etc.
Turkey is way over rated.
The left over white meat needs to be slathered with Miracle Whip just to make a sandwich edible.
In years past, turkeys were always a lost leader item for the grocery store. Sell a cheap frozen turkey for $.59/lb(limit 2). Just to get the person in the store to buy all the other things with it. Similar to gallons of milk being a lost leader.
Free range, organic feed, humanely slaughtered and processed (by us).
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