[wbill]

Here's the requisite Thanksgiving PETA story. You know, some of my fondest memories are sitting at the table at Mom's house as a child, having a nice steaming bowl of Tofurky. /sarcasm off

I thought the lettuce bikinis sounded interesting, though. I'm such a chauvinist pig.

[Junior]

"I want to appeal to holiday travelers to ask them to go vegan this Thanksgiving," Phelps said. "Fifty million turkeys each year are slaughtered for Thanksgiving after living their lives in unhealthy, inhumane conditions."

Then death is something of a release for those turkeys, isn't it?

[NittanyLion]

"I'm sure not going to eat turkey this Thanksgiving," he said. "After reading about the way that turkeys are held in captivity until they're slaughtered, it's sad. It's just a poor bird."

Brown then added, "Close sarcasm tags." < /sarcasm >

[Diogenesis]

"American are cowards to eat turkeys, killing them at a distance."

[jerod]

Save a tree, eat a beaver.

[eFudd]

Do not kill your turkey?

Would they rather you put it in the oven alive.

[Denver Ditdat]

"We are asking people to have a compassionate Thanksgiving by substituting turkey for one of the alternatives, like Tofurky, UnTurkey or Tofu Turkey," PETA spokesperson Bruce Friedrich said at Washington's Reagan National Airport.

Freudian slip, Mr. Friedrice? Shouldn't that have been ...by substituting one of the alternatives for turkey?

Heck, I'd be glad to substitute a real, juicy turkey for the ersatz glop these folks usually try to peddle. Glad PETA sees it my way!

[sasquatch]

substituting turkey for one of the alternatives

My wife made a great moose stew last night but there won't be enough for Thanksgiving.
Perhaps some prime rib or veal? That'll get 'em going..

[vacrn]

Thanks for my morning chuckle! Tofurky will be my word for the day!

[djpg]

I think that the people from PETA should be as compassionate as they claim to be. Don't kill insects or household pests. Let the wasps, yellowjackets, and fire ants live anywhere they want. Don't take antibiotics that kill those precious bacteria. Don't even eat the plants that herbivors and insects need to survive. You don't want to starve them do you?

[mbb bill]

How do you cook a PETA?

[Happygal]

Tofurky!!! Sounds like a swear word!

[airborne]

...a holiday based on the Pilgrims and indians working together to overcome the adversity of the harsh winter.

Actually, the indians had no problem with the harsh winter. They were used to it.This version of thanksgivings origins is not exactly accurate.

I believe Rush has told the real story berfore. The Pilgrims tried to run a "commune system" where everyone got the same amount of rewards(food) no matter if they worked hard or slacked off. There was no benifit to the individual for hard work, so many didn't, and food supplies were minimal.

It was only after settlers were permitted to have their own personal gardens that winter supplies were bountiful. There was so much excess that a festival (Thanksgiving) was held to eat some of the extra food that would not last over the winter, or not be needed. Ther was so much that the early settlers even invited the indians to join in the feast.

[ArGee]

"We are asking people to have a compassionate Thanksgiving

For myself, I think it is very compassionate to save turkeys from the difficulties of life in the wild by sheltering them in turkey hotels, feeding them on the best so they can grow fat, free of all fear and insecurity. I wonder if any of those PETA people have ever bothered to watch wild turkeys to see how they fare with all their natural predators and how they're killed.

I will have a compassionate Thanksgiving by compassionately giving a turkey its reason to live and giving the good people a Buterball reason to keep the turkeys safe for another year instead of letting them out into the wild.

Shalom.

[riley1992]

by substituting turkey for one of the alternatives, like Tofurky, UnTurkey or Tofu Turkey,"

These are incredibly fowl sounding to me.

[RMrattlesnake]

I will some Compassion this thanksgiving. I will eat taste animals.

PEOPLE for the EATING of TASTE ANIMALS

I plain to eat a some turkey and some rabbit and duck go shoot this season.

[Doctor Freeze]

I'll eat an extra serving of turkey just because I despise PETA. I may go fry a chicken also. Don't these people have better things to do (maybe finding a HUMANitarian cause)?

[Phantom Lord]

Here is a letter in today's Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin

Letter: Turkey's life short, bleak

Thanksgiving is about liberty, joy and life. But the 340 million turkeys raised in the United States each year for our holiday tables experience none of these. They are forced to breathe toxic fumes in crowded sheds as their beaks and toes are cut off to reduce damage from stress-induced aggression. After 16 weeks of agony, they are hung by their legs on a conveyer belt and beheaded by an electric saw while fully conscious.

Thanksgiving is about sharing. But the grain fed to turkeys denies lifesaving foodstuffs to millions of starving people.

Thanksgiving is about a bountiful harvest, but raising grain for turkeys involves depletion of topsoil and groundwater essential to a good harvest.

Prepare dishes from the bounty of our harvest: grains, vegetables and fruits. Replace misery, disease and death with joy, good health and life.

BRAD BILLINGS
BINGHAMTON

This guy is claiming "340 million turkeys" and PETA is claiming "50 million." Quite a discrepency. I think Brad is using the "Mitch Snyder method" of counting.

[Piquaboy]

In order to comply with their wishes, I am going to partake of a soup sandwich.

[Phantom Lord]

I wonder how many PETA members, vegans, and others like them refuse to take medicine that comes in a "gelcap." Why do I ask? Because gelcaps are made from animal products. As is JELLO! As are ALL gelitan products.

[Dustbunny]

Thawing out our bird in the frig right now. Wish I had known before, we might have been able to give him a jump start to get him going again so we could set him free.

Oh darn, never mind, I just remembered we didn't buy a whole turkey this year, just the breast.