Turkeys
Turkeys’
Natural lifespan;
10 - 12 years
Elapsed time from birth to slaughter of the turkey on your table;
9 – 15 weeks (That’s WEEKS).
Ratio of “living time” gifted to your turkey by The Creator, to the “living time” aloud by the factory farm industry supported by turkey eating consumers;
Ten to One (50:1).
Percentage of “Living Time” stolen from the birds by the consumers;
98%
Turkeys’ Neurological capacity to feel pain;
Same as humans, cats and dogs.
Turkeys’
Natural behavioral tendencies;
Turkeys are social, playful birds; they enjoy the company of others. They relish having their feathers stroked and like to chirp, cluck, and gobble along to their favorite tunes. Anyone who spends time with them on farm sanctuaries quickly learns that turkeys are as varied in personality as dogs and cats. When not forced to live in filthy factory farms, turkeys spend their days caring for their young, building nests, foraging for food, taking dust-baths, preening themselves, and roosting high in trees.
Number of humans slaughtered by glutinous birds each year in the U.S.;
Zero
Number of turkeys slaughtered by (For) humans;
Over 19 Million in 2008
Number of Americans who snuffed out Big-Bird’s life because they were starving, and had no other option;
Zero!
Turkeys’ right to Life (Living out full life span), Liberty and the pursuit of happiness;
Obvious, unalienable, undeniable, God-Given.
Right of humans to deny these rights to Turkeys (The United States first proposed national symbol, later replace by the Eagle [who is protected by law]); Illegitimately invented, indefensible, non-existent in reality.
Why humans (Usually via contract) commit (Participate in);
Rape – Artificial insemination, and injections of near lethal doses of growth stimulants and other hormones, antibiotics, various other drugs Etc,
Terrorism – Subjecting non-threatening sentient beings to; Daily conditions so threatening that birds remain in constant fight-or-flight mode, and hormones related to extreme desperation continually saturate the bloodstream,
Torture – De-beaking, toe-trimming, wing cutting (All without the use of anesthetics), separated from family members, forcing birds to spend their short lives crowded wing-to-wing, beak-to-butt, standing in urine and feces, choking and gasping in an atmosphere deficient in oxygen and replete with poisonous methane and nitrogen compounds and saturated with deadly infectious microbes… struggling in conditions severe enough to kill high percentages before slaughter time, And some undergo the increasingly popular practice (Banned in many counties, but legal in the U.S.) of “Flank Battering”, delivering bruising blows to the live birds body to “Tenderize” the meat, Then transported to the killing facility, tossed and squeezed into trailers driven unprotected through any and all weather conditions, hung live, upside down on body pearling conveyor hooks… and then,,, well it gets worse.
Murder… Actually premeditated Pedacide (Slaughter of individuals in childhood)
This is the unholy legacy that turkey eating people bring into their temples…
Why? With God as my witness, I DO NOT KNOW!
Happy Thanksgiving
Peace
Billy
P.S.
This little note of discomforting reality is offered to my fellow Human (Humane?) Beings, sisters and brothers for whom I feel great love and respect.
I do not wish to bring anyone down, but know that the inhumanity which produces the cries of zillions of abused that keep some of us up at night is surely not making the world a nicer place… For any of us! Calling out from a world with far too much pain and from a country populated with people espousing distaste for torture and terrorism… and not nearly enough compassion, I am left confused. Is there a way that we can contribute less to hurt and more to love?
Respectfully, I know that it is not my place to preach. I am only sharing a bit of reality that “Doesn’t have to be”. For we Humans, it is easy to contribute to that which we would not, if we don’t realize “The Connection”.
Please consider the connection.
Goodness!
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