Posted on 11/08/2004 3:16:21 PM PST by Shermy
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y., Nov. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- What's the best way to stuff a turkey? Any animal advocate will tell you: Pumpkin pie, stuffed squash, salad and cranberries. But there's one catch -- the birds will be stuffing themselves! Farm Sanctuary, the nation's leading farm animal rescue and protection organization, is asking people to feed a turkey this Thanksgiving, rather than eat one.
Farm Sanctuary's annual Adopt-A-Turkey Project offers two ways for people to save turkeys during the Thanksgiving holiday:
1) Sponsor "adopt" a turkey who lives at Farm Sanctuary's New York or California shelters for farm animals. Sponsors receive a color photograph of their turkey and an adoption certificate. The one-time adoption fee of $20 provides funds for feed, bedding and veterinary care for the turkeys.
2) Home adopt and provide a safe, permanent and loving home for two or more turkeys. Individuals adopting turkeys as companions must complete an adoption application. Approved adopters will be placed on the group's Turkey Express schedule.
Since Farm Sanctuary's unique holiday project began in 1986, hundreds of turkeys have been rescued, and thousands of people have decided to celebrate turkeys as friends, and not the main course. This holiday season, millions of compassionate consumers will sit down to a vegetarian Thanksgiving feast across America.
Public Celebrations FOR the Turkeys, where turkeys are the guests of honor, are part of Farm Sanctuary's annual Adopt-a- Turkey Project, which encourages people to SAVE a turkey for the Thanksgiving holiday. On Nov. 20, 2004 hundreds of animal advocates will gather to feed turkeys, rather than eat turkeys, at Farm Sanctuary's annual Thanksgiving Celebrations FOR the Turkeys at our shelters in Watkins Glen, N.Y. and Orland, Calif. The unique alternative to the traditional Thanksgiving feast is a fun- filled day of shelter tours, guest presentations, a delicious vegetarian holiday meal, and a ceremonial "feeding of the turkeys." Guests will dine on "Tofurky" and other vegetarian cuisine, and dozens of rescued turkeys will be the guests of honor enjoying a feast of their own-with a holiday table just for the turkeys full of their favorite foods.
The group encourages people to enjoy a meatless Thanksgiving, since a vegetarian diet is good for turkeys and people alike. Turkeys and other birds are not covered under the federal "Humane Slaughter Act", and they are excluded from most state anti-cruelty laws. Not only do vegetarians each save approximately 93 animals every year from the cruelty of factory farms and slaughterhouses, they also live, on average, six years longer than meat eaters, and have significantly less rates of heart disease, cancer and obesity.
For more information on Farm Sanctuary's Adopt-A-Turkey Project, visit: http://www.AdoptATurkey.org.
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Damn near elected one.
Adopt one? The Dems nominated one!
I'll adopt a frozen turkey!
I'm doing the home adoption.
Pair of 20 pounders.
Do you know what they do with all those orphan turkeys after Thanksgiving?
They send them to Foster Farms.
Mmmm, free turkey.
Where's my axe?
November is Adopt-A-Turkey Month; Organization Encourages People to Adopt a Turkey, Not Eat OneWhat? I can't do both? I find that fowl are more tasty and succeulent when you've bonded with them on an emotional level. And nothing tops the mean like the fresh odor of betrayal....ahhh, memories.
Take that, PETA.
I plan on deep-frying several this year...
OK. I'll make this thanksgiving meal a ham in honor of our islamic friends.
It mustn't be any fun at all to be an animal activist or liberal, vegan, democrate, progressive etc...
Each year our family adopts a turkey and treat is with kindness. We go so far as to give our guest a warm bath at 325 degrees until it has a nice Kerry tan. Then we invite it to dinner.
I'll adopt a democrat in my neighborhood.
All your giblets are belong to us.
Sorry . . . couldn't resist.
Pass the gravy.....who has the cranberry sauce.
I just adopted a 22 pounder. Its defrosting now.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1274722/posts
cross-reference thread re: peacocks
I think I'll buy two turkeys this year. And a duck.
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