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Articles: An alternative to the national days of murder... |
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bettie_x on Sunday, December 09, 2001 - 02:15 PM PST
While watching the president pardon the national thanksgiving turkey, something struck me.Aside from my fiancé and I forwarding a lovely little note about the yearly impending national days of murder.... er... thanksgiving... christmas... easter... WHATEVER...
I decided to just post some fun non dead animal alternatives to the traditional holiday carcass.First off, turkeys, don't thank anyone on thanksgiving. (You wouldn't either if you were bred to spend your short miserable life crammed into a cage with several other miserable birds with no bedding, no light,no heat, bad food, and rotten neighbors only to end up naked, tied, gutted and headless onsomeone's kitchen table with bread and veggies stuffed up your yinyang.) Santa Clause doesn't visit the veal calves on the outskirts of the dry lot dairy farms where they lie in shacks in blistering heat or freezing cold, restrained from movement to keep their muscles atrophed and "tender". The Easter Bunny doesn't return the eggs taken from chickens who were biologically shocked with light, sleep, food and water deprivation to the point of death to reset their laying cycles, blinded by the amonia fumes of their own uncleard dung below their cage, legs broken from trying to nest on hard wire cage bottoms, and eyes pecked out by aggravated, anxious, and frightened neighboring birds. The piggies in concrete pens who have to nurse their newborn pigletts through steel separation bars aren't looking forward to an xmas ham..or being it, for that matter.Yes, there is a point to this...I suggest TOFURKEY!!!!Quit your gaking already and hear me out, I've had tofurkey and it is RAD. YUMMY. Its a small roast about the size of a cantaloupe with stuffing inside. It comes with "drumsticks" made out of the most flavorfullveggie/nut/blackbean stufing concoction I've ever had, and "turkey" gravy. Fred meyer'shas them on sale, but it's well worth it.It can easily feed 4-5 people, or two or three if you fast all day in anticipation of stuffing your face.PETA also has a nummy vegan nut loaf that I've also tried. It's not as good as tofurkey, but a good alternative to those who are allergic to soy..The PETA website also has lots of yummy vegan holiday and everyday dishes and desert recipes that may suprise you how varried and EASY the food is to make, and how delicious it is. I've had delicious onion soup with garlic mashed potatoes, sweetpotato corn chowder, stuffed green peppers, stuffed zuchinni, a FABULOUS vegan lasagna that is soy free and death free (only if I don't use whipped silken tofu as riccotta cheese) that I invented myself.....all cheap, all easy, and all cruelty free.Hell, there's holidays all throughout the goddamned year...what's trying something new just ONCE going to hurt...all those dead damned animals will be on sale the followingday so if you hate it you can make up for it later for christ's sake. Plus you get the benifit of a healthy, low fat, murder free meal. Save a life this holiday. It's the best gift you can give to an animal with no future..And stop wearing leather...it's neither fashionable, sexy, or cool.Pleather or veggie leather is 10 times more durable and half the cost.Famous vegans:Elvira: Mistress of the dark River Phoenix Summer Phoenix Sister of RiverPaul McCartneyGhandiAlicia Silverstone Actress Annie Curtis Jamie Lee's DaughterBenjamin Spock Medical DoctorCoretta Scott King Martin L.K., Jr's wifeDennis Kucinich US CongressmanDr. John Harvey Kellogg DoctorDrew Barrymore ActressEarth Crisis MusiciansEd Templeton pro skateboarderElizabeth Burkley ActressFiona Apple SingerFugazi . bandGeoff Tate QueensrycheGeoff Rowley pro skateboarderGillian Anderson actressJack Dangers Musician (Meat Beat Manifesto)Joaquin PhoenixJulia Stiles actressK.D. Lang MusicianKatherine Monbiot arm wrestlerKeenan Ivory Wayens ActorKevin Nealon Saturday Night LiveLinda Blair actressMartina Navratilova tennis playerMoby SingerMushroom . Massive AttackRikki Rockett Musician (Poison)Sara Gilbert ActressTom Scholz BostonWeird Al Yankovic Comedian/singerWoody Harrelson actorJust to name a few....visit elvira's webpage!http://www.elvira.comand PeTA's website...http://www.peta.comand MY favorite by far, THE LETTUCE LADIES (and the brocolli boys)...tossedsalad, anyone?http://www.lettuceladies.comREAL men are kind to animals.peace out, kiss your pets, save a turkey.end transmission.
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Uh oh..
by Rae (darkness_embraced1@yahoo.com)
on Dec 09, 2001 - 07:29 PM
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Gosh Bettie, you really have a way of making me feel terrible for being the carnivore that I am..lol. (not to mention the black leather sectional I am sitting on..gulp!) I am so terrible that I can't walk past the meat department in the grocery stores without drooling over all the selections of prime cut juicy meats.
Veggies?? If you could only see the expression on my face just by the mere mention of the word. Mr. Yuck out to give you a good visual.
I will eat salads, I love those..but forget all that other "good for you stuff".
So...what you guys don't want, can you pass down my way? *ducks out of pot and pan throwing range* :)
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- Retake by Rae on Dec 10, 2001 - 07:52 PM
An alternative to the alternative to the national days of murder...
by Ironboots on Dec 10, 2001 - 05:36 AM
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How about, instead of eating procesed lumps of cheese, we DO eat meat... But raised in a special way...
See, you raise him in an environment as close as possible to his natural one (whatever that is, thanks to domestication... ) But whatever. He has friends to play with, the natural foliage to choose from to eat, and fresh water.
But every now and then, the hunter (you) comes along. And none of that cheating (gun, knife, bow, etc), you have to take him on yourself (no teaming up on a single animal). Run with your own damn legs and catch him. If you can't catch him, you're not deserving of his life.
This way, the animal lives happily and naturally, and has a chance of not dying. You gain some exercise (you lazy gluttons!) and hopefully, a tradition... (okay, kids, time to go get our Christmas dinner!)
Go it the NATURAL way! We were born to be carnivores!
(okay, I know someone will pipe up with "but we're omnivores, sir" so just hold that comment... I know.)
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The Vegetarian Debate
by Maranda (saboneta@aol.com)
on Dec 10, 2001 - 06:06 AM
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Excellent idea. While I don't have a problem with people eating humanely raised, chemical free meat, I have a BIG problem with our meat industry. The human cost (slaughterhouse injuries, contaminated food, deforestation, heart disease, etc.) is almost as bad as the cost to the animals. Those who don't believe me can check out Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation.
I had given up meat myself until three years ago when a combination of medical conditions forced me to give up almost all grains and many legumes. Kind of hard to get the right nutrients without any of those.
My other half is vegetarian, although not vegan, and last Thanksgiving we made a terrific meal of all the traditional Thanksgiving side dishes-- potatoes, yams, veggies, etc.-- just no turkey. Nobody complained.
Besides, there are so many flavors in the vegetable world. Meat just tastes like meat.
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Re: An alternative to the national days of murder...
by Dolorosa on Dec 10, 2001 - 08:58 AM
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Yikes...you bring up a very valid point, this TOFURKY stuff bears further looking into...even if it's name is horribly easy to mangle into something profane. Still, where is the mystique of an American holiday that does not envolve the pain of small defenseless animals? Can it truly be enjoyable when we aren't ripping the life out of something just a few rungs lower on the food chain than we? Yeah sure...I suppose...it would even be humane and all that junk...but it just wouldn't be fun. I suggest eating people dressed as turkeys. Theres just too damn many of them anyways...and I'm sure there are a couple people out there you'd just love to chew on. Two birds with one stone, inhumanity to turkies, and solve overpopulation by the braindead masses...still, cannibalism has it's problems, people are so unhealthy, or so I hear...purhaps this TOFURKY is just the thing we need...
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Re: An alternative to the national days of murder...
by Abbadon on Apr 06, 2003 - 10:10 AM
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What's your point?
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