VINE Sanctuary invites the public to meet rather than eat turkeys on Saturday, Nov. 25, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 201 Massey Road in Springfield, Vt. This Thanksgiving Party for Turkeys will focus on celebrating and helping the turkeys and other animals at the sanctuary.
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Talking Turkey
For many people, the holidays bring up the anguishing question of whether or not to attend family dinners that will feature the corpse of a dead turkey prominently displayed at the center of the table. Attend our annual Party FOR LIVE Turkeys the Saturday following Thanksgiving.
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Vermont turkeys used to walk to Boston
By JANE LINDHOLM, PATTI DANIELS & ANGELA EVANCIE • NOV 26, 2014
"Turkey drives" were an autumnal tradition from the 1800s to the early 1900s, and involved the overland strolling of flocks of turkeys from all corners of Vermont to their destination — and demise — in Boston.
During traditional turkey drives to Boston, children of Vermont farmers typically walked with the turkeys, scattering food to lure them forward -- but perhaps they would have appreciated wagon rides.
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Nothing better than turkey corpse with all the trimmings!
ReplyDeleteThey would also dip their feet in tar to make protective boots for the long journey.
ReplyDeleteI love me some turkey corpse
ReplyDeleteIt sucks that so many millions of turkeys get eaten on this day. My least favorite Holiday.
ReplyDeleteHow many chicken cows and pigs are killed everyday?
ReplyDeleteToo Many!
DeleteHow many carrots are killed each year? Or worst yet, Xmas trees.
DeleteSave the grass! Kill the animals before they eat it all.
ReplyDeleteGobble Gobble who is that
ReplyDeleteMr turkey big and fat
Gobble Gobble what does he say
See you on Thanksgiving Day
(Song we sang in Kindergarten..Circa many years ago)
This is crazy stuff, we raise certain animals to eat them this is how we sustain ourselves as a human race. We didn't raise to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables! That's why we have brains and are so smart! I hope my tax dollars do not go to support this craziness... probably does...
ReplyDeleteWhat's the Difference?
DeleteThe only difference between Thanksgiving and the Yulin dog meat festival is propaganda and extreme social conditioning.
Every year when Yulin rolls around, Americans feel outrage. And rightfully so- NO animal deserves or needs to be slain and eaten by us.
However, our compassion usually ends there (with dogs). We willfully ignore the fact that 46 MILLION turkeys are bred and raised to be slaughtered for a holiday in this country, but we get up in arms that 10 thousand dogs are slaughtered for the EXACT SAME reason in China: to be eaten.
Society teaches us that dogs and cats are 'companion animals' and it is therefore unacceptable to torture, kill and eat them... but do the same thing here to a turkey, or a pig, or a cow, or a chicken, and no ones bats an eye.
Turkeys are highly intelligent, sensitive, emotional animals. They are beautiful birds that do not deserve to die for a holiday (a holiday mind you, that was originally instituted to celebrate a Native American massacre perpetrated by the colonial invaders).
What is the difference between a turkey and a dog? Only your perception.😔
View ready-to-carve-up roast dogs here:
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(originally written by Marley Delgado, edited slightly)
I especially like the poodle duffer fritters.
DeleteRe: what's the difference?
DeleteAs a small farm owner I will tell you that meat hens and meat turkeys have been genetically modified to grow rapidly. Chickens are 6-8 weeks and turkeys are 16-20 weeks. I had a chicken that went 10 weeks because it escaped into the smaller birds pen. At 10 weeks it had grown so big that it's legs no longer could support the weight of the animal. I suspect that turkeys would be the same. My first year raising turkeys I had one that dressed out over 50 lb, they are not equipped to weigh that much. The way genetics are set up in these breeds of birds they will suffer tremendously and their bodies will shut down. The quality of life after said time is terrible. Personally, I raised all my animals with respect and dignity in a clean environment. That way they have a good life no matter how long or short it is.
Humans survive with proteins from animals. It has been that way since humans were around. This vegan way that has only started approximately 15 to 20 years ago is new to the human body you need to supplement yourself with vitamins and other proteins that only come from animal flesh.
Back in the '70's there was a guy named Euell Gibbons. He was an extreme vegan who advocated eating tree bark. He died from severe gastrointestinal damage. I rest my case.
ReplyDeleteHe died from eating dogwood. Unfortunately it's bark was worse than it's bite.
DeleteOuch!
DeleteWikipedia reports Euell Gibbons died of an aortic aneurysm. There's no mention in the Wiki bio about the charges resulting from his encounter with a 14-year-old virgin pine.
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