The Resourceful and Respectable Turkey

Turkeys, in their natural habitation, are very intelligent and beautiful birds that display resourcefulness, beauty and agility, worthy of respect and admiration. They can reach speeds, during flight, of up to 55 mph and move at 25 miles an hour. Their average life-span is four years in human terms.

Indeed, Ben Franklin, who gave them the title “true USA originals” had a deep-rooted respect for them. Turkeys also enjoy their feathers being stroked as well as hearing music to which they respond by singing out aloud. They make very lively and entertaining pets and enjoy being pampered too.

Tragically, when turkeys are captured and confined in factory farms they are killed as young as only 5 to 6 months of age, during their short life span. Secret footage was filmed and it displayed workers on the factory farm kicking them around like footballs. The turkeys, it goes without say, were highly frightened and distressed by this anti-social behaviour. It’s bad enough that they will be strangled and killed without this kind of staff being allowed to get away with such cruel action, completely uncalled for. Indeed, they are not even allowed the simplest happiness they get, like running around, building nests, and raising their young.

Just like chickens, 300 million turkeys are raised and then murdered for their flesh every year in the United States in the most brutal and cruel methods and have no federal legal protection. They cram thousands of turkeys into filthy sheds after their beaks and toes are burned off with a hot blade. The lucky ones suffer heart failure or debilitating leg pain and often becoming crippled under the weight of their genetically manipulated and drugged bodies. When the time comes for slaughter, they are thrown like junk into transport trucks, and upon arrival at the slaughterhouse, their throats are sliced apart and their feathers burned off—often while they are still fully conscious.  Indeed, another horrific reality that affects all that eat factory farm animals is that they will be prone to diseases like mad-cow disease, swine and bird flu to name but a few, because they are unnaturally and forcefully fed their own dung and cows are fed the sheep brain, when in fact they are natural grazers and herbivores.  We should strongly oppose and go against these actions by appealing to the government to support humanity.  Some people just want to see the end product; a neatly served plate of the bird with stuffing and a carving knife.  They want to be fool themselves that it isn’t a dead animal that was cruelly and brutally tortured and forcefully killed.