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.”
ADVERTISEMENT
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at huffpost.com ...
The president of United Poultry Concerns and a tireless advocate for chickens, turkeys and other farmed fowl,
I'd bet she's OK with abortions though. Get a life, b****!
Normalizing shortages sounds right. My sister bought a turkey last weekend. There were 3 left. This weekend there were no turkeys at the same store. Who knows if they will be in stock over the next few weeks.
Mayo + your favorite BBQ sauce makes it even better.
“I was thinking of wacking one.”
They are very smart birds in the wild. You might be able to wack one, but I bet the second one will be a lot hard.
should have wrote, “a lot harder to wack.”
“Wild” turkeys in my neighborhood are so tame that I can almost run them over with my lawn tractor.
I have gotten within 20 feet when I am on the tractor. On foot within 50 feet.
I think I could probably shoot one very easily with my 16 gauge shotgun or my 22 pump.
I don’t plan to have Karen Davis as a guest at my table. She has gone outside the foul line with this one. All I can say as I flip her the bird is: “I know you hate Thanksgiving because it is a Christian holiday. Go eat caterpillers if you like,but don’t try to tell me what to do.”
Its called Turkey Day....
Many years ago, my grandmother had way too many cats on the farm. You would go over there and they were sitting all along a wooden fence and all over the yard. Her nephew bragged he would weed them down. He came over and shot one on the fence and all the rest scattered. He came over multiple times but was never able to bag another because they recognized him and took off.
FYI, both of these individuals have been dead for several years.
Everyone buy turkey.
These idiots got laws passed to outlaw restaurants from selling four gras. They are insane
More advice from overfed, privlidged schizophrenics.
You mean EXPERT overfed, privlidged schizophrenics.
:)
Mmm. Fence rabbit.
Goose = Rats with wings.
We are overrun with them here in Milw. County. Everywhere there is a pond, there are way too many geese.
I always thought there should be a way to cull the flock and do a big holiday meal for whoever was game (pun intended ; )
And I loved that goose liver pate!
We still have Braunschweiger
No thx, I’m having Turkey, maybe 2.
Never had a real wild turkey. rarely see them because of coyotes, hawks and bobcats. Try it and report back.
marinate them in cider, stuff em with apples and onions.. delicious
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.