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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I would rather have goose or duck.
I love duck.
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."
Those you can eat.
LOL! You captured his cadences.
Another assault on the first Thanksgiving.
A lot of times we just get a turkey breast. It’s more than enough for us
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.
You win the thread.
First, interview all your planned Thanksgiving guests.
If they read HUFFPO - immediately cancel their invitation.
Why yes I have.
However, I still prefer Knob Creek.
Somebody had to read it to post it here.
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.
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.
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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?
Good- more turkey for us!!
A Karen, who is actually named Karen…
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.
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Progressive turkey-free Thanksgiving. Wokeness kills everything.
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