Thanksgiving dinner’s sad and thankless Christmas dinner’s dark and blue When you stop and try to see it From the turkey’s point of view. Sunday dinner isn’t sunny Easter feasts are just bad luck When you see it from the viewpoint Of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork [...]
In January and February of 2007 a Mercy For Animals investigator worked in the “live-hang” area of one of the country’s largest poultry slaughterhouses – House of Raeford Farms, Inc. in Raeford, North Carolina. The following is from the diary of that undercover investigator: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 Today I saw about 50 dead turkeys [...]
Originally published in the New York Times Opinion section on 11/22/2009 LATELY more people have begun to express an interest in where the meat they eat comes from and how it was raised. Were the animals humanely treated? Did they have a good quality of life before the death that turned them into someone’s dinner? [...]
The following was originally published on February 28, 2007 on CommonDreams.org I grew up eating standard American fare: turkey sandwiches, ice cream, and hamburgers. I didn’t necessarily choose these foods. They were chosen for me. Nobody told me what they were made from, and when I asked, my parents and the adults around me either [...]