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I really ought to go vegetarian
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From peta.org
turkey
Happy Holidays? Not for Turkeys!
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.
A Turkey's Life
More than 45 million turkeys are killed every year for Thanksgiving alone, and more than 300 million are killed for food throughout the year in the United
States. These beautiful, inquisitive, intelligent birds endure lives of suffering and painful deaths.
Did you know?
• Factory-farmed birds are fed antibiotics and have been purposely bred to gain an enormous amount of weight in a short period of time. This leads to heart
attacks, crippled feet, and painful, swollen joints. The bones and leg muscles of many birds give out under the weight of their huge upper-bodies, and
countless others are barely able to stand.
• 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. Most
are given no more than three and a half square feet of space. They stand in waste, and urine and ammonia fumes burn their eyes and lungs.
• To keep the overcrowded birds from scratching and pecking each other to death, part of their beaks and toes are sliced off with hot blades, and no anesthetics
are used.
• Millions of turkeys don’t make it past the first few weeks on factory farms because they succumb to “starve out,” a condition in which newly hatched birds
do not begin to feed and starve to death. It is believed to be a stress-induced reaction to the rough transport and handling that they endure and to the
removal of the young birds’ snoods and parts of their beaks and toes.
• At the slaughterhouse, turkeys are hung upside-down by their weak and crippled legs. Their heads are dragged through an electrified “stunning tank,” which
often immobilizes them but does not render them unconscious. Many dodge the tank, meaning that they are fully conscious when their throats are slit.
• If the knife also misses its mark, birds are boiled alive in the tank of scalding water designed for feather removal.
• Millions of people become sick and thousands die each year from eating contaminated flesh. Studies indicate that one out of every eight turkeys is infected
with salmonella bacteria.
• Turkey contains no fiber but has lots of fat and cholesterol. For example, a roasted turkey’s leg contains 724.5 milligrams of cholesterol and derives
42 percent of its calories from fat—more than many cuts of beef.
At least I don't have to worry about it now but for christmas -- for any time of the year, meat is my best friend! I just love it and can't imagine a meal without it. Yet these stats make me want to go vegetarian. I am so ashamed as I realize everything is done the same over here!
Why do people have to be so cruel? Why do I have to be so cruel?
Nan just brought over some christmas lights/music centre decoration that she bought for a christmas pressent. We are currently trying to figure out how we can set them up in the loundgeroom. At least my house can look a little christmasy now.
Oh I got a letter just then from Boxhill TAFE which Nan read to me. It's for a Social work certificate which I will get favoured to if I call up as I previously applied for youth work. When I get cut off the Net I may give them a call. (think it's social work anyway. nan just read it to me not long ago and my memory is fuzzy already. Not good. :(
Til Next Time, RdFreak
being_homeless's LJ.From peta.org
turkey
Happy Holidays? Not for Turkeys!
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.
A Turkey's Life
More than 45 million turkeys are killed every year for Thanksgiving alone, and more than 300 million are killed for food throughout the year in the United
States. These beautiful, inquisitive, intelligent birds endure lives of suffering and painful deaths.
Did you know?
• Factory-farmed birds are fed antibiotics and have been purposely bred to gain an enormous amount of weight in a short period of time. This leads to heart
attacks, crippled feet, and painful, swollen joints. The bones and leg muscles of many birds give out under the weight of their huge upper-bodies, and
countless others are barely able to stand.
• 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. Most
are given no more than three and a half square feet of space. They stand in waste, and urine and ammonia fumes burn their eyes and lungs.
• To keep the overcrowded birds from scratching and pecking each other to death, part of their beaks and toes are sliced off with hot blades, and no anesthetics
are used.
• Millions of turkeys don’t make it past the first few weeks on factory farms because they succumb to “starve out,” a condition in which newly hatched birds
do not begin to feed and starve to death. It is believed to be a stress-induced reaction to the rough transport and handling that they endure and to the
removal of the young birds’ snoods and parts of their beaks and toes.
• At the slaughterhouse, turkeys are hung upside-down by their weak and crippled legs. Their heads are dragged through an electrified “stunning tank,” which
often immobilizes them but does not render them unconscious. Many dodge the tank, meaning that they are fully conscious when their throats are slit.
• If the knife also misses its mark, birds are boiled alive in the tank of scalding water designed for feather removal.
• Millions of people become sick and thousands die each year from eating contaminated flesh. Studies indicate that one out of every eight turkeys is infected
with salmonella bacteria.
• Turkey contains no fiber but has lots of fat and cholesterol. For example, a roasted turkey’s leg contains 724.5 milligrams of cholesterol and derives
42 percent of its calories from fat—more than many cuts of beef.
At least I don't have to worry about it now but for christmas -- for any time of the year, meat is my best friend! I just love it and can't imagine a meal without it. Yet these stats make me want to go vegetarian. I am so ashamed as I realize everything is done the same over here!
Why do people have to be so cruel? Why do I have to be so cruel?
Nan just brought over some christmas lights/music centre decoration that she bought for a christmas pressent. We are currently trying to figure out how we can set them up in the loundgeroom. At least my house can look a little christmasy now.
Oh I got a letter just then from Boxhill TAFE which Nan read to me. It's for a Social work certificate which I will get favoured to if I call up as I previously applied for youth work. When I get cut off the Net I may give them a call. (think it's social work anyway. nan just read it to me not long ago and my memory is fuzzy already. Not good. :(
Til Next Time, RdFreak
hmm
The thing that gets me is that a lot of people who are against eating meat are also pro-abortion *sighs* anyways, animals aren't humans. God killed an animal to clothe Adam and Eve, and He commanded sacrifices to be performed, and for people to eat meat. So, it's not sin. It'd be sin to eat people, though...
Re: hmm
and as far as abortion goes, it really depends on the circumstances. I mean I am definitely not for it, but in the case where someone has been waped. It could be a different story there.
Thanks for shedding some light. I didn't really think of it like that. I have just recently bought a talking bible. I had the new testiment (which is like eight huge volumes) but was able to recently buy the talking bible with new and old and haven't listened to it all yet.
Re: hmm
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I'm glad I don't live near you, Lol Lol lol hahaha!