Sarah Palin pardons a turkey just before another is slaughtered behind her ... live 7

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   Bob Wallace Posted 4:02 pm
   20 Nov 2008

   Let's hear it for Joe the Butcher...I enjoyed the video.
   Of course I watched it with the sound muted....

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   sindark Posted 1:53 am
   21 Nov 2008

   No crime to gobbleIn the United States, there is a Presidential tradition of pardoning turkeys. Of course, it is dubious whether the turkeys had committed any capital offenses requiring a pardon beforehand.
   There is something a bit sick about "representatives of the turkey industry" presenting one bird to be spared in this way, while raising millions more in utterly degraded conditions and slaughtering them.
   Official White House turkey pardon photo gallery
   
   a sibilant intake of breath

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   Steven T Posted 2:22 am
   21 Nov 2008

   On spectacleI hope this gets wide distribution because the clip powerfully illustrates what strange depths the Republican Party has descended to.

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   dorsborn Posted 3:09 am
   21 Nov 2008

   Slaughtering turkeys at Thanksgiving......is apparently now a Republican tradition?  
   Did I get that right Steven T?

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   Craig Allen Posted 10:06 am
   21 Nov 2008

   At least she is honest about itI'm no fan of Sarah Palin, but at least she's displaying some honesty about the facts of life here.
   Californians just passes a bill to mandate that livestock and fowl be given at least the room to turn around. Elsewhere they don't even get that privilege. The turkeys in that video look like they have luxury digs by comparison.
   So, if you are shocked and appalled by what you see here, I guess that means you will be forgoing your turkey this season, or only partaking if you can find a free-range one that was gently sedated before having it's noggin lopped off.
   Yes? No?
   Hmmm, I guess hypocrisy isn't peculiar to Republican voters alone after all.
   In my opinion, you should only be allowed to eat meat, if you have first undergone a right of passage wherein you have gone to a farm to ritually slit the throat of you first meal yourself.

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   PermieWriter Posted 12:49 pm
   21 Nov 2008

   Meaningless gestureThe Broad Breasted White turkey, the modern commercial standard, is so overbred for breast size that it can't live for more than a year. I know a farmer who adopted such a bird. In her second year, she couldn't walk anymore and had to be slaughtered. All those pardoned birds are going to get killed in the next six months. Another reason to prefer heritage birds.
   Does anyone really like that awful, cottony breast meat, anyway? I've been buying (organic, humanely raised) turkey thighs in recent years. Much faster cooking, no carcass to deal with and nice, rich meat for the Thanksgiving feast.
   
   Eat what you grow, grow what you eat

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   Jonas Posted 5:40 am
   23 Nov 2008

   Free the birds"More people die or grow sick from polluted water than from coffee, tea, tobacco, and other stimulants. I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat. I am convinced that within a century coffee, tea, and tobacco will be no longer in vogue. Alcohol, however, will still be used. It is not a stimulant but a veritable elixir of life. The abolition of stimulants will not come about forcibly. It will simply be no longer fashionable to poison the system with harmful ingredients. Bernarr Macfadden has shown how it is possible to provide palatable food based upon natural products such as milk, honey, and wheat. I believe that the food which is served today in his penny restaurants will be the basis of epicurean meals in the smartest banquet halls of the twenty-first century. There will be enough wheat and wheat products to feed the entire world, including the teeming millions of China and India, now chronically on the verge of starvation. The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900."
   Nikola Tesla, 1937

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