ImPalin' Turkey
There's a recent news article featuring Sarah Palin pardoning a turkey from Thanksgiving dinner. The joke is, in full background of her interview from the slaughterhouse, there is a kill-floor in action, and some people are butt-hurt that you get to see turkeys having their heads chopped off.
True, it's a politician's nightmare to have a press stunt go so terribly wrong. But did it?
I'm curious ... Does anyone not know that turkey is made of ... turkey? Like, they imagine "meat" comes from some kind of plant or magical fairy? If you're going to raise and kill animals to eat them, how can you be upset that you had to see it happen?
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls,
everyone would be a vegetarian."
- Sir Paul McCartney
When you go to the grocery store each week, the meat section is a nice pretty row of pre-cut dead animals, in neat little packages, chemically induced to remove the blood and rotting color from your precious widdle eyeballs. God forbid you associate killing animals with killing animals. It is a disgusting marketing white-out from a truly disgusting industry.
Do I eat meat? Sometimes. I love sushi. I've had tacos every Tuesday for two years. I've caught and killed and ate my own food. I know where it comes from. I've read the descriptions, I've seen the footage, and I had to make my own decision whether that price is something I am willing to pay. Every time you take a bite of meat, you need to thank that animal for suffering its entire life, being murdered, and processed by labor-abused and underpaid workers, in a filthy and traumatic factory line.
If you don't like seeing a man force a living and struggling turkey head-first into a machine that saws its head off and spurts blood onto the walls ... you should have Tofurkey next week. I also recommend the Chik'n, Boca burgers, and hundreds of other delicious meat alternatives that are readily available and frequently affordable.
PS: It's healthier. It's better for the environment. It's humane. I'm up to about 4-5 days a week myself. Still love cheese and eggs though. >_>
PPS: I love Countdown on MSNBC, but Shuster's voice has made me delete it all week.
PPPS: If you want to embed YouTube videos that skip ahead to at a certain point, you find the URL of the actual video in the embed code and add &start=1, changing 1 to the number of seconds in that you want to skip, like 106 in mine.
Click to viewTrue, it's a politician's nightmare to have a press stunt go so terribly wrong. But did it?
I'm curious ... Does anyone not know that turkey is made of ... turkey? Like, they imagine "meat" comes from some kind of plant or magical fairy? If you're going to raise and kill animals to eat them, how can you be upset that you had to see it happen?
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls,
everyone would be a vegetarian."
- Sir Paul McCartney
When you go to the grocery store each week, the meat section is a nice pretty row of pre-cut dead animals, in neat little packages, chemically induced to remove the blood and rotting color from your precious widdle eyeballs. God forbid you associate killing animals with killing animals. It is a disgusting marketing white-out from a truly disgusting industry.
Do I eat meat? Sometimes. I love sushi. I've had tacos every Tuesday for two years. I've caught and killed and ate my own food. I know where it comes from. I've read the descriptions, I've seen the footage, and I had to make my own decision whether that price is something I am willing to pay. Every time you take a bite of meat, you need to thank that animal for suffering its entire life, being murdered, and processed by labor-abused and underpaid workers, in a filthy and traumatic factory line.
If you don't like seeing a man force a living and struggling turkey head-first into a machine that saws its head off and spurts blood onto the walls ... you should have Tofurkey next week. I also recommend the Chik'n, Boca burgers, and hundreds of other delicious meat alternatives that are readily available and frequently affordable.
PS: It's healthier. It's better for the environment. It's humane. I'm up to about 4-5 days a week myself. Still love cheese and eggs though. >_>
PPS: I love Countdown on MSNBC, but Shuster's voice has made me delete it all week.
PPPS: If you want to embed YouTube videos that skip ahead to at a certain point, you find the URL of the actual video in the embed code and add &start=1, changing 1 to the number of seconds in that you want to skip, like 106 in mine.