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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Who needs “experts” to tell them what to eat for dinner?
“United Poultry Concerns”?
They should join with The Gravy Worriers.
Be great parties.
Everyone sitting there upset about green beans.
A decade ago, when our quarterly cookoff came too close to Thanksgiving, we roasted a goose instead. It was to die for.
Karen Davis needs to stop being such a....KAREN.
Couldn’t help myself. ;O)
Rush would be howling with laughter!!!
That’s just a stupid article
What’s a Thanksgiving without Wild Turkey 101? I mean, it just isn’t the same.
When we did a regular turkey, we would cook it breast-side down. The white meat was more juicy that way.
It doesn’t make the traditional presentation, but we always cut it up before serving.
It’s what they do.
I don’t like turkey. My Thanksgiving only has turkey when I’m not the one organizing it.
I’m grilling steaks this year for Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving experts? Well I’m an expert on what I like and I’ll have the turkey with all the trimmings. The experts are welcome to my aunts carrot salad with raisins.
I know a woman that still talks about my goose..
If we have Thanksgiving experts specializing in Turkey, we have way too many experts.
That is the point.
Experts? What the hell makes them experts? They just want to take all the joy out of life.
:)
I prefer Knob Creek.
To each his own?
Have you ever had a real wild turkey?
They are all over in this part of NH. I have a flock of about nine that hang out on my property. I was thinking of wacking one.
I heard they are not exactly a Butterball.
We have a group who deep fries turkeys for us every year. They do several thousand turkeys for Thanksgiving.
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