Sorry for the late post today, folks, it’s coming in the next hour, I promise! In the mean time, I thought you might like to meet Blossom. Back in July, I began donating regularly to a green cause — this time, that cause is a turkey (it is Canadian Thanksgiving, after all, in a few days). My parents are always good about ordering their free-range bird from the local butcher shop in advance, but what can I say, there’s always a bit of guilt that lingers in my pseudo-vegetarian conscience (thanks a lot, Peter Singer!), so I’ve gone and adopted a turkey. The always-green Shawn, of the recently deceased Kowai, deserves credit for pointing me in the direction of this adorable and commendable organization.
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That is a great site so I think I will donate as well as eat the turkey. My canine teeth are there for a reason! What do they do with all those turkeys that they are cuddling? I am not sure what to think about ‘saving’ farm animals that were bred to eat.
I was totally expecting a big floppy hat with a flower on it circa the Blossom I knew of 1992.
I’m a little skeptical about how this organization works. It seems to me that adopting turkeys to save them from slaughter won’t actually translate into fewer turkeys being slaughtered. When turkeys (such as yours) are taken out of the market, wouldn’t the laws of supply and demand dictate that more turkeys are then “produced”? I think it would be more effective to simply not eat turkeys, and encourage your friends and family to abstain as well.
But then, I’m not much of an economist.
I think teaspoon is right about the economics of saving turkeys. I think the better solution is to just not buy them in the first place if you want to save them from being dinner.
I’m a meat-eater. But I’ll only eat meat that I know has lived a happy life. Turkeys are bred to be food. They live and then die like the rest of us.
I’ve become much more okay with eating ethically-raised meat after reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. I highly recommend this book.
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