Talk Turkey: Thinking about your holiday meal
This year as you plan your holiday meal, consider the animal that is so often at the center of the table. What do we know about it? How was it raised? What was it fed? How was it killed? Is it even possible to find these things out?
Are the answers to these questions in line with your values, your family's values and the values we are celebrating during the holiday season?
If our holiday meals are supposed to serve as a reflection of our gratefulness, can a turkey that spends its life crammed by the tens of thousands into giant warehouses, on antibiotics, that has been bred to suffer--as is true for more than 99% of turkeys sold in America--be the choice we feel best about?
This holiday season, consider the turkey. Take this conversation in any direction you'd like. The most important thing is that our choices be deliberate.
There's nothing more powerful than an informed conversation.
This year as you plan your holiday meal, consider the animal that is so often at the center of the table. What do we know about it? How was it raised? What was it fed? How was it killed? Is it even possible to find these things out?
Are the answers to these questions in line with your values, your family's values and the values we are celebrating during the holiday season?
If our holiday meals are supposed to serve as a reflection of our gratefulness, can a turkey that spends its life crammed by the tens of thousands into giant warehouses, on antibiotics, that has been bred to suffer--as is true for more than 99% of turkeys sold in America--be the choice we feel best about?
This holiday season, consider the turkey. Take this conversation in any direction you'd like. The most important thing is that our choices be deliberate.
There's nothing more powerful than an informed conversation.
Because of the horrible way animals are treated in the course of breeding, keeping and killing them in order to use parts of their corpses for commercial products, I have been a vegan for the past 25 years. I urge everyone to read Jonathan Safran Foer's outstanding book "Eating Animals" and to go vegan.
I have been informed on how factory farming is so cruel and inhumane that I have made a decision to stop eating any kind of meat. It's just a shame how people are so ignorant and think animals cant feel pain and cannot put themselves in the animals place. I pray this will change.
it's time people treated animals with the same respect as humans and love them ALL, regardless of how they taste or can be used. Shame on all humans for allowing this to go on for so many years
Animals are living beings and are sensitive creatures. If they are going to be killed for meat they should at least have a human life.
I've been wanting to go vegetarian for about two years and in addition to changing my diet, I'm going to get my friends and family in on it to by preparing meatless meals for them to enjoy. :)
After watching a worker twist the neck of poor turkey over and over again on "If Slaughterhouses Had Glass Walls" I will never, ever eat another slaughterhouse, farmed turkey!
Give animals a chance at life!
I have stopped buying meat at the grocery store. I have begun sharing what I have learned with friends and colleagues.
After reading "Eating Animals" I have become a total vegetarian. I have not eaten any red meat for almost all of my adult life but the book nudged me along to make the total committment. It's not really as hard as I thought it would be. Now, the thought of putting a bite of meat from an animal that has suffered into my mouth makes me feel sick. Thank you too Mr. Safron Foer for all of his hard work and hard questioning.
I'm mainly a vegetarian (eating no factory farmed animals) but now I have to look in myself again and ask whether I want to eat any meat at all. Thank you, Jonathan.
If anyone could see how these poor animals are raised, (many have broken legs because their bodies are much to heavy to carry them)then maybe it would change how they think of them as food only!
Vegetarian
Eat veggies
Praying for all humanity to become vegetarian and animals be free from pain.
Что еще вы делаете, чтобы сказать "Нет", выращенных на фабриках мяса во время предстоящего сезона отпусков?
mmm tofurkeyyyyy
Become vegetarian!!!!
We are vegetarians and we raise our children to be vegetarians as well.
What a terrifying and beautiful book! I know I will never eat meat again.
