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Thanksgiving Without Turkey? A Valid Argument For Skipping The Bird. There are ample reasons you may not want to serve a turkey at your feast. Experts offer ways to create a new holiday tradition.
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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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: huffingtonpost; huffpo; karen; karendavis; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; thanksgiving; turkey
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To: Publius

I would rather have goose or duck.
I love duck.


41 posted on 11/08/2021 9:14:16 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Publius
"It’s articles like this that make me miss Rush Limbaugh."

I can hear it now.

"And now, here's something you won't hear on the Drive By Media, my friends. Nobody can present this story to you like I can, even with half my brain tied behind my back. Uber-rich Theresa HEINZ Kerry, who's husband John Kerry served in Vietnam, had her imports impounded by Customs because they were solar panels created by SLAVE labor in COM-MUUUNNN-ISST China. Gigolo John Kerry's wife has over a million dollars invested in a slave labor company creating solar panels so we quit having SUV's run over people. So you see, my friends, it's okay to complain about slave labor, but don't interfere with the profits of slave labor to people like Lurch John Kerry, especially when it has to do with solar panels trying to save the planet for Algore.
By the way, did you know it got up to only the 70's today in Palm Beach? Algore must be doing a speech here today. For those of you in Rio Linda, Algore has a habit of bringing cold weather with him whenever he gives a speech about global warming. I kid you not!
Anyway, back to the turkey. I'm sorry, audience, my brain sometimes runs faster than I can say it. But back to the turkey before Mr. Snerdly distracts me again. If killing turkeys for food bothers you, I advise you to look at it like I said to do after we captured Saddam Hussein. Just pretend the turkey is a fetus and abort it."

42 posted on 11/08/2021 9:14:22 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Theophilus
NUTS!

Those you can eat.

43 posted on 11/08/2021 9:14:51 AM PST by tnlibertarian
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To: Tell It Right

LOL! You captured his cadences.


44 posted on 11/08/2021 9:17:32 AM PST by Publius
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To: mylife
Thanksgiving Without Turkey?

Another assault on the first Thanksgiving.

45 posted on 11/08/2021 9:18:21 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: woodbutcher1963
Have you ever had a real wild turkey?....... ...........why YES! YES I HAVE!................
46 posted on 11/08/2021 9:18:22 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: mylife

A lot of times we just get a turkey breast. It’s more than enough for us


47 posted on 11/08/2021 9:18:40 AM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: kosciusko51

I use a temperature probe made by Polder.
Push it in the deepest part of the breast until you hit bone. Then pull it back about an inch.
Set the probe to 160.
Pull it out of the oven when it gets to 160. It continues to cook for another half hour. Worst case is you might have to nuke some of the inner most breast meat.

I have never tried the upside down method. I end up cutting about half of it. One platter for dark meat. One for white meat.


48 posted on 11/08/2021 9:18:54 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Red Badger

You win the thread.


49 posted on 11/08/2021 9:18:59 AM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: mylife

First, interview all your planned Thanksgiving guests.

If they read HUFFPO - immediately cancel their invitation.


50 posted on 11/08/2021 9:19:42 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Red Badger

Why yes I have.

However, I still prefer Knob Creek.


51 posted on 11/08/2021 9:21:21 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963
After about 3 shots, it could be and I would know any better!........................
52 posted on 11/08/2021 9:23:01 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SmokingJoe

Somebody had to read it to post it here.


53 posted on 11/08/2021 9:23:09 AM PST by webheart (I thought I was helping by getting vaccinated but they say I didn’t help at all. )
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To: mylife

The Leftards are not happy unless they are crapping all over someone’s traditions. They are consumed with hatred to the point where it is demonic.


54 posted on 11/08/2021 9:24:11 AM PST by FalloutShelterGirl (Cool! I found my original screen name!)
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To: mylife

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.

That is both a strange and disturbing sentence. Why juxtapose the numbers of slaughtered turkeys with vaccinated Americans? It’s a really bad associated. You’re a turkey to get the vaxx? You’re going to be slaughtered?


55 posted on 11/08/2021 9:24:29 AM PST by Flick Lives (The future is a quiet world)
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To: mylife

Good- more turkey for us!!


56 posted on 11/08/2021 9:25:40 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Publius
I'm sorry I forgot to mention how sea turtles are affected by California's transportation problems resulting in more cargo being offloaded in the Gulf Coast.
Or that I tell my wife every day how much I like her "women's movement".

57 posted on 11/08/2021 9:27:01 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: mylife
Screw you Huffpo, I'm an old fashioned white guy...bring on the BIRD!!

turkey-dinner
58 posted on 11/08/2021 9:27:56 AM PST by The Louiswu (Peace to you and may God Bless you all)
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To: mylife

A Karen, who is actually named Karen…


59 posted on 11/08/2021 9:28:12 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: mylife

If you’ve been hosting the same crowd for years, your guests will be expecting the same menu, especially since the pandemic has canceled so many celebrations. Give guests a heads-up beforehand. Help dial down their anxiety, and get them excited to be part of a new, progressive, turkey-free Thanksgiving tradition.

Progressive turkey-free Thanksgiving. Wokeness kills everything.


60 posted on 11/08/2021 9:28:54 AM PST by Flick Lives (The future is a quiet world)
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