Giving Thanks by Saying “No Thanks” to Turkey

November 25, 2009 @ 3:09 pm

“All beings tremble before violence. All fear death. All love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?” — Buddha

A good friend who knows I recently went vegan tweeted me a good-natured ribbing about what I’d planned to eat tomorrow. I know I’ve been talking a lot about the mercury in our tap water, swine flu and Darfur lately—a lot—but I’m not completely humorless. I just would have appreciated his tweet more had I not just recently seen a video of turkey farmers abusing turkeys with such sadistic cruelty that it made Saw IV look like Disney fare.

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