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veganism, environment, animal rights, health and fitness
We all know that is it an American tradition to eat a big roasted turkey on Thanksgiving. As you have probably guessed, I don’t like this tradition one little bit. Why? Well other than the fact that you are eating a dead animal, I think the answer is very simple. Why in the world would we want to eat a living thing that suffered its whole life and had its head chopped off for us to eat while we give thanks about our own lives? It is just very ironic. Why would we say thanks about our lives when we just ruined another’s? It is literally torture on a table.
Each year we kill 46 million turkeys for Thanksgiving day alone. eeeeeekkkkk. This is devastating. Imagine if you were the Turkey and suffered your whole life for this day when a machine chopped your head off only to be eaten because it is a tradition.
Some people will make the excuse that it has happened for ever and it is just plain tradition. Well think about it. Traditions do not make an excuse for something to be moral. For example, the Yulin Dog Meat festival is a tradition in China yet people here are so outraged and think it is the most cruel thing ever.This is the same with slaughtering dolphins in Japan, etc. We are just plain Hippocrites.
Anyway, when you go out to buy a turkey remember that that was once a living thing that had its own family, so think twice and consider making a more thoughtful decision for your Thanksgiving feast.
Here is a poem about this by Shel Silverstein…
Point of View
Thanksgiving dinner’s sad and thankless
Christmas dinner’s dark and blue
When you stop and try to see it
From the turkey’s point of view.
Sunday dinner isn’t sunny
Easter feasts are just bad luck
When you see it from the viewpoint
Of a chicken or a duck.
Oh how I once loved tuna salad
Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too
‘Til I stopped and looked at dinner
From the dinner’s point of view.
—Shel Silverstein
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!
Also watch this video, it explains it a lot better than I do 😉 (this guy is the best!!! Earthling ed)
#noturkey, #vegansday, #bekindtoeverykind, #eatnoturkey, #loveall, #vegan, #happythanksgiving!
A Young Voice 
Thank you, Ava, for this reminder. It is so hard to do away with “Traditions”, so it does come slow and sure. I had a Vegie burger last night for dinner and I am making bean burritos tonight for dinner on the tortillas you helped me buy. Have a wonderful Thanksbgiving. Thanks for sharing!
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