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Honor turkeys by eating Tofurkey, instead.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

The following blog enry is updated from last year's Thanksgiving entry.  Many people's greeting for today's holiday is not merely "Happy Thanksgiving", but "Happy Thanksgiving; enjoy your turkey."  Would you be eating meat today if you were shown and told in advance since infancy what you were really eating and how the animals are slaughtered, including the blood, guts, and untold suffering? Is it anything but advertising euphemism that meatsellers cloak animal corpses in such code words as hot dogs, hamburgers, pork, beef, bologna, sausage, bacon, ham, meatballs, and meatloaf?  Soon after graduating college in 1985, I could no longer resolve all the toil I had spent advocating for human rights while chomping on burgers, chicken, and tuna fish...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on November 26, 2009 (boomark / email).