I absolutely agree! I will eat only Veal and Foie Gras from now on!!

I've been a vegetarian for more than two years now and have never looked back -- even my sisters and brother and realizing how their meat diet contributes to animal suffering and global warming. My favorite site for finding awesome veg food in the area is VegDC.com!

farm turkeys are unnatural abominations. You know the turkey Pres. Bush pardons every year? Not a single one has lived to the next Thanksgiving: farm raised turkeys are too sickly.

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The argument that livestock contributes to global warming is a crock peddled by Ingrid Newkirk's fiefdom, PETA.

My question is, if you are in favor of protecting turkeys from slaughter are you also opposed to embryonic stem cell research, abortion, and other practices that involve the killing of human life?

If the dilemma stems from turkeys (and any other animal) being too "smart and sensitive" to be consumed, then the answer is quite simple - selective breeding.

With relative ease domesticated turkeys could be made as "smart and sensitive" as a box of nails, then your moral problems would go away. Right? RIGHT?

No, I suspect your emotionally driven, pan-socialist outlook would remain the same.

While I do empathize with animal rights people about the practices in industrial livestock raising, I have yet to hear an alternative from them that still provides enough meat for the people of this country. Almost every alternative I hear from them is: don't eat meat. Occasionally (sp?) I will hear: only eat free range organic - but that's usually in regard to people's opinion that free range organically raised meat tastes better and not about such livestock farmers having less 'cruel' farming and slaughtering methods.

The main alternative offered - don't eat meat - just doesn't hold water for me. Humans are omnivores. We receive protein, vitamin B12, iron, and amino acids essential to our body from consuming meat. These can be replaced with supplements and/or the consumption of specific combinations of vegetarian food items, of course, but that is only really an option in areas where supplements or wide varieties of foodstuffs are available. Of course, even in areas that have access to lots of supplements and foodstuffs, it's still a bit more expensive - so such a lifestyle is not something for people with little or no disposable income.

As for me, I like the taste of meat. I like my baby back ribs, my meatloafs, and my cheeseburgers from Five Guys. I would buy free range organic meat if I could afford it since I am uneasy about all the chemicals present in our food supply, but I will always eat meat short of some medical condition making meat dangerous to my health.