Did you know … that your TG turkey suffered terribly? (11/24/15)
“Immorality sanctified by tradition is still immorality.”
~ Bernard E. Rollin
*Did you know that the domesticated turkey you will (hopefully not) be eating this Thursday was bred to grow so fast that she could barely walk at all the day she was crammed into a transport truck and hauled off to her brutal death – and that she almost undeniably watched firsthand as many of her cousins died of heart attacks before she went?
*Did you know that turkeys have their beaks seared off and their toes cut away in their infancy without receiving any anesthesia?
*Did you know that turkeys are packed into long, windowless buildings by the thousands, and that these drastically overcrowded conditions force turkeys to live their short, brutal lives mired in their own waste – and that they are constantly exposed to ammonia fumes and irritating dust which cause most of them to develop respiratory diseases, ulcerated feet, blistered breasts &/or ammonia-burned eyes and throats?
*Did you know that turkeys experience horrific cruelty during their final hours of life, where “catchers” enter the sheds in darkness to roughly collect them as quickly as possible; grabbing them roughly by their ankles, carrying them upside down to waiting trucks, and stuffing them violently into crowded crates waiting there? Did you know that during this process, many turkeys suffer broken wings and legs?
*Did you know that turkeys are then transported for up to 36 hours without food or water, in open-sided crates where they are exposed to weather extremes from scorching heat to freezing sub-zero temperatures? Did you know that many turkeys do not survive this hellish journey? Indeed, in 2007, of the 260 million turkeys slaughtered in the United States, an estimated 988,000 turkeys – nearly 1 MILLION birds – died during crating and transport to slaughter.
*Did you know that, once at the slaughterhouse, turkeys are roughly shackled by their feet (where many heavy birds suffer broken &/or dislocated legs) and then are immediately electrocuted in an electricity-charged water bath – also without anesthetic?
*Did you know that the killing lines move so quickly in most commercial slaughterhouses that many of the turkeys are not properly stunned, and that as a result MILLIONS of turkeys every year have their throats slit open while fully conscious?
*Did you know that quite a few birds (over one MILLION per year in the United States, according to the Washington Post) actually miss the cutting blade in their abattoirs, which leads to them being literally boiled alive in a scalding tank thereafter?
*Did you know that there are no laws whatsoever in the United States regulating all these atrociously cruel practices?
More importantly, did you know that you can help stop this brutally barbaric and patently unjust practice? … YOU CAN — by going vegan!
Amen … Let it be so.
“If you saw someone was beating a child — or you knew someone was injuring their partner — or you knew someone was being raped, you would know it was wrong and you would want to do something about it. And you would also know that it would be wrong for you to stand by and let it happen without intervening in some way … This is how vegans feel. We know animals are being caged, beaten, exploited and murdered. And we know it is wrong. So we can’t just stand by when we know it’s happening … You shouldn’t either.” ~ inspired by Annie Mags
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