Wednesday, November 26, 2003

 

An excerpt from www.peta.org:

"This year, more than 45 million turkeys will have their beaks and toes cut off without pain killers and their throats slit while they are still conscious—all so that they can become part of someone’s Thanksgiving dinner. Those who miss the automated knife will go into the scalding tank fully conscious and will be boiled alive.

It’s ironic that on a day when we are supposed to be celebrating the good things in life, most Americans sit down to eat dead birds who never saw the light of day or took a breath of fresh air until they were loaded onto crowded trucks to be taken to slaughter. Before they became part of someone’s Thanksgiving “celebration,” these often-crippled birds lived in chronic pain and endured cruel and painful deaths. On factory farms, thousands of turkeys are packed into warehouses where they are commonly smothered and often suffer from disease and heart attacks. There’s no better time to choose compassion by going vegetarian. Let’s make this Thanksgiving one for the birds."

45 million !!! :-(

posted by vcd 9:37 PM