Board 8 > Annual reminder: 45-46 million turkeys are killed for Thanksgiving each year.

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http://time.com/5022315/turkeys-killed-thanksgiving/

This Thanksgiving, make sure you are thankful that you're not a turkey. Because if you were, you'd have been born months ago in some factory farm, not even knowing your family because your parents were already shipped off to become sliced turkey on sandwiches. Then after you're pumped full of stuff to make you fat and have more antibiotics than a pharmacy at Walgreens, you're sent to the slaughterhouse too along with 45-46 million others just like you. The only crime was that you were born as a turkey and unfortunately for you, only one turkey was pardoned for that crime in a photo op.

After being killed by whatever cruel method the factory slaughterhouse is using these days, you're beheaded and sold in a supermarket graveyard to some family that doesn't even really like turkey but only does it in the name of "tradition" in this screwed up holiday. So there you would be, your life where you only wanted happiness, reduced to you being a dinner some would call "bland" or "boring" and not even given that much respect as you're eaten by people that don't even respect you.

Maybe it's too late this year, maybe you already bought a turkey. You already wronged the animal by paying for it to be killed so go ahead and eat it so it's not wasted, but remember its sacrifice to you, and give the bird the respect it deserves. And next year, don't get a turkey. There are many alternatives like tofurkey that are just as "festive" or "traditional" as a turkey. By doing that, you're saving a life and making the poultry industry less profitable. If we get a lot of people to do it, imagine how many lives we can save and how much suffering we can reduce in this world for out feathered friends.

So remember, this Thanksgiving, imagine yourself in the position of the turkey and promise to do better next year.
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I once imagined myself in the position of a pizza and realized I don't care because pizza is tasty
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I promise I will eat another one next year.
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This account has over 1500 karma.

Why
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Nanis23 posted...

I once imagined myself in the position of a pizza and realized I don't care because pizza is tasty

So you're okay with someone eating you if you're tasty? Would you have this same attitude if a bear in the woods was looking at you and had that opinion?

v_charon posted...

I promise I will eat another one next year.

Sounds to me like you think with your stomach and not with your heart.

redrocket posted...

This account has over 1500 karma.

Why

Because I'm a legitimate user, more than many others here.
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I have this massive de ja vu now
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*ruffles beard*
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LameJokeAlt posted...

So you're okay with someone eating you if you're tasty? Would you have this same attitude if a bear in the woods was looking at you and had that opinion?

What of the turkey was vorarephile?
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ok
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Nanis23 posted...

LameJokeAlt posted...

So you're okay with someone eating you if you're tasty? Would you have this same attitude if a bear in the woods was looking at you and had that opinion?

What of the turkey was vorarephile?

Let's be honest, only humans would think up things like voraphilia and would want to be eaten. Animals and most humans have a natural fear of this. Even if it were possible that a turkey could be into that, what would be the odds? Very slim.
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LameJokeAlt posted...

So you're okay with someone eating you if you're tasty? Would you have this same attitude if a bear in the woods was looking at you and had that opinion?

i mean, i would personally hate to be eaten by a bear but i don't expect the bear to be considering that

I'm having separate thanksgiving dinners with my mom and my girlfriend's family

2 turkeys for me, score
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Please tell me you'll wash your hands before dinner.
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Not a vegetarian, so I borrow the words of John Oliver: "Every single turkey is guilty of having delicious bird parts that should be serving time in the prison of my mouth.

Though the problem is more for poor people who can't afford these nutritious birds.
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All I did was buy a turkey that was already killed. It would've rotten in the ground otherwise.
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Hell yeah
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Turkey's a mediocre bird for food, especially as a centerpiece, but living turkeys are assholes so whatevs.
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If I wasn't eating a turkey, I'd be eating some other animal instead.
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metaIslug posted...

But like you make this topic for turkeys you also have to make it for chickens and every other living being that is killed for food.

Please don't encourage this behavior.
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