A Victory for Turkeys

All too often even the most egregious cases of animal abuse go without any substantial punishment. This seems even more true when the victim is a “food” animal.  However, I saw some good news today that gives me some hope that times may be changing (slowly, but changing nonetheless). Around Thanksgiving last year, People for [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

What’s for dinner?  This, which can be seen in a recent PETA undercover video: [The video shows] stomach-turning brutality. Workers are seen smashing birds into loading cages like basketballs, stomping heads and breaking necks, apparently for fun, even pretending to rape one. On the tape, one worker describes losing his temper at a tom who [...]

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Sarah Palin “pardons” a turkey…Sort of.

Wow.  I have to say that our nation escaped a complete disaster when we elected the Obama-Biden ticket as opposed to McCain-Palin.  Sarah Palin was recently interviewed at a farm (slaughter-house??) “pardoning” a turkey for Thanksgiving, while right behind her another turkey is meeting its demise–and she could care less.  She’s happy go-lucky the whole [...]

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Farm Sanctuary Trip

I am back from a wonderful weekend at Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, NY. What an adventure we had. I finally got to meet the goat I sponsored, Goodwin. This is him: He is just the cutest little goat I’ve ever seen. Apparently his growth was stunted due to malnutrition or something, so he is [...]

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