"NO THANKS" to ButterBall Thanksgiving Turkeys
Someone asked me a few days ago: "Don't you MISS eating meat?"
Maybe last February, I may have answered "A bit..."
Perhaps I have re-programmed myself...perhaps I have been re-programmed...regardless - I can no longer see chunks of meat as food.
I see it as pieces of a dead animal.
For real.
Something that was once alive, was killed, and then had pieces of it chopped off from its cadaver and presented as "edible".
GROSS. Seriously.
Someone asked me yesterday what my plans for Thanksgiving are.
"You're AT LEAST going to have turkey on Thanksgiving, right?"
Uh...no.
Then I started thinking about all the turkeys who are dying - or getting ready to die - a HORRIBLE death - right at this very second for that exact day.
It sucks to be a turkey on thanksgiving.
It's a mass slaughter - HOLOCAUST for Turkeys on thanksgiving - and I think this is a tradition we need to END for real.
WE buy turkeys because we are SUPPOSED to.
In truth - it's just the dead body of a bird - plopped on a plate with a bunch of bread crumbs and spices shoved up her fucking twat.
Appetizing anyone?
Barf.
Yet - we buy it because "everyone buys turkey on thanksgiving".
Why??
For real - why not make it a fucking day of grace - and show the ANIMALS who FEED US a little thanks by deciding to NOT EAT ANY OF THEM on that day.
Give thanksgiving BACK to the chickens and turkeys and pigs we love to mass slaughter around this most "thankful" time of year.
I know that won't fly well with everyone - so at least - if you ARE going to buy a turkey...don't buy it from Butterball.
Here's why:
(from peta.org)
Butterball workers were documented punching and stomping on live turkeys, slamming them against walls, and worse during an undercover investigation at a Butterball slaughterhouse in Ozark, Arkansas.
One Butterball employee stomped on a bird's head until her skull exploded, another swung a turkey against a metal handrail so hard that her spine popped out, and another was seen inserting his finger into a turkey's cloaca (vagina).
One worker told an investigator: "If you jump on their stomachs right, they'll pop ... or their insides will come out of their [rectums]," and other Butterball workers frequently bragged about kicking and tormenting birds.
PETA's investigators discovered these horrors between April and July, 2006, during an undercover investigation at a Butterball plant that slaughters approximately 50,000 birds each day.
Butterball turkeys are killed using a process that involves hanging live birds by their legs, shocking them in an electrified bath of water so that they become paralyzed (though they still feel pain), slitting their throats, and then running them through a tank of scalding-hot water for defeathering.
Because Butterball's current slaughter method gives workers access to live birds, the animals often suffer when workers become frustrated or bored and desensitized, as was the case at this Butterball plant and the other poultry plants that PETA has investigated.
See...this shit makes me so sad and frustrated that we are supporting this TORTURE still.
It's NOT FUCKING RIGHT.
DO NOT SUPPORT BUTTERBALL.
The workers are probably under-paid and fucking psychotic with rage and confusion and desensitization from seeing 50,000 birds slain a day.
Evil breeds evil in my opinion.
A turkey is a beautiful, MAGNIFICENT, bird and we have NO FUCKING RIGHT to do this to them. IT IS NOT RIGHT. Read the above article again. Read it again. Read it again.
Seriously.
Who would WANT to support that?
The one thing I'm thankful for this year:
I stopped being a slave to the meat industry.
Dan
posted by Another Apartment in Blogville. @ 8:35 AM
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