5 Reasons to Bypass the Turkey this Thanksgiving…and Everyday

Plant Based Dietitian Blog Img

Turkey size MJNearly 46 million turkeys are brutally raised and slaughtered just for Thanksgiving in the U.S. each year.

Here are 5 reasons to bypass the turkey this Thanksgiving…and everyday:

1. Bred for both size and speed of growth, turkeys more than doubled in size since 1929 from an average of 13 pounds to an average of 29 pounds, and show no signs of stopping. If the trend continues, we could see an average turkey size of 40 pounds by 2020.
—>WIRED’s Give Thanks? Science Supersized Your Turkey Dinner
—>Mother Jones’ Look How Much Bigger Thanksgiving Turkeys Are Today Than in the 1930s
Thanksgiving before and after2. Turkeys are raised under “egregious insanitary conditions” as they are crammed into tiny spaces indoors, where ammonia and other noxious chemicals levels build up in the air due to manure and overcrowding. They are debeaked without anesthesia to avoid them hurting one another, sickened due to the bleak conditions, and there are many undercover videos documenting horrific abuse.
—>Mother Jones’ Butterball Goes “Humane” for Thanksgiving. Really? 
—>Free from Harm’s 12 Reasons You May Never Want To Eat Turkey Again

Turkeys thankful for vegans3. “Turkeys are sensitive, social individuals, and in conditions where they are permitted to thrive, they are seen for the complex, adaptive, and intelligent animals that they are.”
—>Woodstock Farm Sanctuary’s Turkeys
—>Nature’s My Life as a Turkey Q&A

4. Because of the bird flu crisis this year, prices of turkey have jumped up to 20% higher.
—>USA TODAY’s Bird flu means your Thanksgiving turkey will cost more this year

5. There are literally thousands of creative, decadent, delicious recipes available online, in restaurants, and in cookbooks everywhere that do not include animal products…
—>My Facebook recipe roundup
—>AOL’s 10 vegan dishes that will completely change the game this Thanksgiving
—>BuzzFeed Food’s 27 Vegan Thanksgiving Dishes That Will Make Meat Eaters Drool

Bless the tofu

This Post Has 8 Comments

  1. binary options trading

    There is no point in trading at a dealer that doesn’t have the assets that you just wish to
    commerce.

  2. organic vitamin c serum uk

    EnShá Care Organic and Pure Vitamin C Serum for Face is assured to give you a natural and perfect-trying pores and skin. EnShá Natural Pores and skin Care Products are NOT used on animals for testing, and accommodates NO harmful substances like
    parabens, alcohol or sulfates.

  3. After the occasions of Useless Man Walking, Sister Helen grew to become anti-capital punishment
    actions and tries to persuade the reader that capital punishment is fallacious as properly.

  4. You can definitely see your enthusiasm within the article you write.
    The sector hopes for even more passionate writers such as you who
    are not afraid to say how they believe. Always go after your
    heart.

  5. Opcje Binarne

    Hi there Dear, are you actually visiting this site
    regularly, if so afterward you will absolutely obtain pleasant know-how.

  6. Not to mention an important selection of the previous high choices,
    they obtain the possibility to play on tire tracks, themed diversions hardware like liquid crafts, airplanes and agar io
    hack – They’ll appreciate an enterprise path,
    an easy task to explore hit training course and do
    as a result much more protection than we performed.

  7. igotbiz.com

    I decided to present Legacy Air a strive after I received an estimate
    from one other company. The other man stated if he did not change
    a sure half, the wires would start to dissipate inside my home and likewise
    both compressors needed to get replaced very quickly.
    He also mentioned they are going to stop making the coolant for my
    compressors and it is a good suggestion to change to newer units
    which have been better for the environment.

  8. One of many main benefits that I can see with the Nexcess Magento SIP patform, you get PCI compliance out-of-the-box.

Leave a Reply

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

The reCAPTCHA verification period has expired. Please reload the page.