Over forty-five million turkeys are killed for Thanksgiving each year. These animals live torturous lives and experience painful deaths. What an awful way to celebrate our thankfulness, by contributing to massive suffering.
This Thanksgiving, as millions of people stand in line to purchase their mass-produced, drug-laden, sick, abused, inhumanely slaughtered turkeys, I will be thankful that I no longer stand with them.
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Weightloss Nic says:
Friday, December 2, 2011 at 3:10 am (UTC -5)
45 Millions just in the US or in the world?
It is indeed sad to see the way animals are treated when they are “just food”. Unfortunately for us, because of that, sickness are transmitted to humans (cow, pork, Chicken…).
Powered By Produce says:
Friday, December 2, 2011 at 1:46 pm (UTC -5)
45 million turkeys slaughtered in just the US, just for ONE DAY! (Thanksgiving is a US-only holiday ;) For an entire year in the US, it’s 271 million. Pretty unbelievable, right? And turkey is one of the least purchased meats.
For chickens, it’s 9 BILLION (with a ‘B’) per year in the US alone! And that only includes chickens raised for meat. If you add in egg-laying hens that are slaughtered for meat or are just killed when their egg production declines, it doubles to 18 BILLION chickens per year.
Ugh, it just makes me sick thinking about it.
(Numbers from here: http://www.animalliberationfront.com/Practical/FactoryFarm/USDAnumbers.htm)
Weightloss Nic says:
Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 4:22 am (UTC -5)
It is truly crazy numbers :(
I asked the question because I’m living in Shanghai and the vast majority of expat restaurant had a special event for Thanksgiving (it’s a US tradition but it is celebrated here by many other nationalities when you have US friends). Therefore I was curious to see if there was numbers including other countries for that day.
Thanks for the link and the info.
Mylene says:
Friday, December 23, 2011 at 12:33 pm (UTC -5)
That are huge numbers and that is in the US alone. Compared to turkey, chickens are in demand everyday which makes me pity them more. I can live with them being killed for food, but does it always have to be a painful death? Hope you can visit me at derivatives.