Top 10 reasons to pardon turkeys this Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving, why not keep the turkey corpse off your table and enjoy a savory vegan feast instead? Here are 10 good reasons to spare turkeys and flock to vegan food:
1. Turkeys are no “bird brains”
When they’re not forced to live on filthy factory farms, turkeys spend their days caring for their young, building nests, foraging for food, taking dustbaths, preening themselves, and roosting high in trees. These intelligent, playful birds relish having their feathers stroked and like to chirp, cluck, and gobble along to their favorite tunes.
As poultry scientist Tom Savage says, “I’ve always viewed turkeys as smart animals with personality and character, and keen awareness of their surroundings. The ‘dumb’ tag simply doesn’t fit.”
2. Turkeys are American originals
Ben Franklin called turkeys “true American originals.” He had tremendous respect for their resourcefulness, agility, and beauty. In nature, turkeys can fly 55 miles an hour, run 25 miles an hour, and live up to four years. Yet turkeys raised for food are killed when they are only 5 or 6 months old, and during their short lives, they will be denied even the simplest pleasures, like running, building nests, and raising their young.
3. Turkey is no health food
Turkey flesh is brimming with fat and cholesterol. Just one homemade patty of ground, cooked turkey meat contains a whopping 244 mg of cholesterol, and half of its calories come from fat. Turkey flesh is also frequently tainted with salmonella, campylobacter bacteria, and other contaminants.
4. Bird flu can strike anywhere
Current factory-farm conditions, in which turkeys are drugged and bred to grow so quickly they can barely walk, are breeding grounds for disease. Cooking meat should kill the bird flu virus, but it can be left behind on cutting boards and utensils and spread through something else you’re eating.
5. Turkeys are on drugs
Dosing turkeys with antibiotics to stimulate their growth and to keep them alive in filthy, disease-ridden conditions that would otherwise kill them poses even more risks for people who eat them. Leading health organizations—including the World Health Organization, the American Medical Association, and the American Public Health Association—have warned that the farmed-animal industry is creating possible long-term risks to human health and will spread antibiotic-resistant supergerms. That’s why the use of drugs to promote growth in animals used for food is banned in Europe.
6. Factory-farmed turkeys have nothing to be thankful for
On factory farms, turkeys live for months in sheds where they are packed so tightly that flapping a wing or stretching a leg is nearly impossible. They stand mired in waste, and urine and ammonia fumes burn their eyes and lungs. To keep the birds from killing one another in such crowded conditions, parts of the turkeys’ toes and beaks are cut off, as are the males’ snoods (the flap of skin under the chin). All this is done without any pain relievers.
Last fall, a PETA investigator went undercover at Aviagen Turkeys in West Virginia and documented workers stomping on turkeys, punching them, beating them with pipes and boards, and twisting their necks repeatedly. One worker even bragged about shoving a broomstick down a turkey’s throat because the bird had pecked at him. Our previous investigations show that such gratuitous abuse is the norm on turkey farms.
7. Turkeys die bloody, painful deaths
When the time comes for slaughter, turkeys are thrown into transport trucks, and at the slaughterhouse, they are hung upside-down and their heads are dragged through an electrified “stunning tank,” which immobilizes them but does not kill them. Many birds dodge the tank and are still conscious when their throats are slit. If the knife fails to properly slit the birds’ throats, the birds are scalded to death in the defeathering tanks.
8. Turkey is not green
Turkeys and other animals raised for food produce 130 times as much excrement as the entire human population—all without the benefit of waste treatment systems. There are no federal guidelines to regulate how factory farms treat, store, and dispose of the trillions of pounds of concentrated, untreated animal excrement that they produce each year.
9. You’re not doing slaughterhouse workers any favors by eating turkey
Killing animals is inherently dangerous work, and the fast line speeds, the dirty, slippery killing floors, and the lack of training make animal-“processing” plants some of the most life-threatening places to work. The industry refuses to slow down the kill lines or buy appropriate safety gear because these changes could cut into companies’ bottom lines.
10. There are healthy, humane alternatives
Everyone can give thanks for Tofurky, Celebration Roast, Garden Protein’s Veggie Turkey Breast With Wild Rice and Cranberry Stuffing, and other animal-friendly holiday meals. PETA’s scrumptious holiday recipes will please every palate and make it easier to give up the giblets.
Right now, my Thanksgiving turkey is running around in a neighbors yard. It will be humanely butchered by hand on Monday or Tuesday. Every living creature will die. The quality of life they lead is my concern. I buy locally raised, free range meats for my table and sleep with a good conscience.
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None of these are good reasons for not eating turkey. If it tastes good, eat it. 'Nuff said.
Pork tastes better and doesn't make you fall asleep during the game.
I don't follow anyone, because those that appear to be on the same path usually end up just getting in my way.
PETA is irrelevant.
When you're sitting there at the table with the roasted turkey, legs up on it's back before you, remember that a few days before it was a walking, breathing being.
Don't forget that about the Ham or Beef you eat either.
Think about your kids knowing that and decide if you still want it.
PETA is Fascist organization with the desire to force their moral and political beliefs on all who disagree with them through any means possible.
This debate isn't about what is the healthiest diet . It also isn't about whether people should eat meat or not. That is a personal decision and is nobody else's business. This is about PETA , their methods and true agenda to force all others who disagree with them to comply with their personal morality.
Ordinarily I would agree that how you live your life is your own business. However, if your choices involve inflicting pain, suffering, and death on other beings, then it's a generally accepted moral prerogative to "interfere" with such choices by pointing out the lack of ethics in them and requesting the practitioners to stop. When people own human slaves, for example, this kind of interference in the slave owner's choice is considered perfectly legitimate. But, unfortunately, when people use animals as slaves, many people still consider thus "use" legitimate and interference with the choice on moral grounds illegit. As Einstein said, "We must widen our circle of compassion to include all beings." Not just our wonderful human selves.
I disagree because I firmly believe that as a human I have the right as a species to eat the flesh of other animals . Humans have been doing this for millennia, and I believe it is natural. Just because people like you have decided that now is the time that we should stop this practice, that it is immoral, is no reason that I should agree with you. Go ahead and become a Vegan but don't take this morally superior high ground and tell me I'm wrong. In my mind it is morally wrong to try to stop me from eating meat against my will. It's called freedom of choice.
You seem to be assigning "rights" to yourself that have no basis in law . Human rights are based on the Declaration of the Rights of Man, formulated at the time of the French Revolution in 1789, as well as the UN's mandate on Human Rights of 1948. Both mention the right of people to be free from tyranny, to have basic needs provided for, etc., but nowhere in either document does it say that people have the right to slay other species to satiate their appetites.
The fact that flesh eating has been done for a long time doesn't make it right. Murder has been around for as long as our species has existed, but I don't think you would argue that since this is so we should stop apprehending and punishing murderers. Likewise human slavery existed for thousands of years; maybe you feel we should bring it back again in this country since it's a time honored "tradition." (which in fact is what slave owners of the 1800's did argue - that and the fact that slavery is mentioned in the Bible so it must be ok).
Would you uphold modern slave owners' freedom of choice to own human slaves?