Top Reasons to NOT eat turkey this Thanksgiving
5. You’ll save energy (and the environment): Ever think about how much energy, land, food, and water is put into raising and feeding the animals you eat? Enormous! It takes up to 5,000 gallons of water, 5 pounds of feed, and 25 square feet of land just to raise one pound of beef. Not to mention that livestock emit 130x the excrement that humans do with few proper sewage systems to handle it (resulting in pollution of water, land, and air). And the methane! Don’t get me started on the methane.
4. It’s not healthy: That’s right, turkey is full of fat. One patty of ground, cooked turkey meat contains 244 mg of cholesterol, with half of its calories coming from fat.
3. Those birds are full of germs (and antibiotics that we should not be consuming): Turkeys are often are given antibiotics to stimulate growth and keep them alive in the disease-ridden conditions in which they live. These antibiotics are full of arsenic, used to kill off parasites in the animals’ feed. Arsenic causes cancer in our skin, lungs, bladder, and kidney.
2. Your turkey has been fingered: “One Butterball employee stomped on a bird’s head until her skull exploded, another swung a turkey against a metal handrail so hard that her spine popped out, and another was seen inserting his finger into a turkey’s cloaca (vagina).” – from goveg.com
1. It’s gross: Think about it. You’re eating a corpse. And you’re basting it with its own blood.
