The Annual Turkey Slaughter (aka Thanksgiving)

Yesterday was Thanksgiving. All over the country Americans marked this holiday with their ritual turkey sacrifice. It's a disgusting tradition, and it must stop. We live in a country where meat consumption is unnecessary for our health and survival, and therefore, immoral. What you might not have known is that turkeys are excluded from federal animal protection laws. Many turkeys raised in factory farms have their beaks removed to avoid aggression caused from overcrowding, but this process causes lifelong pain to the newly-disfigured bird. The process of debeaking and detoeing (I assume these terms are self-explanatory) do not involve anesthesia and can cause bleeding, infection, and death. Overcrowding presents other problems, too; the birds are forced together with very little room to move around while the breathe in ammonia and dust. The dust these turkeys breathe in causes many of them to develop respiratory diseases while the ammonia fumes burn their eyes. They are also know to develop food ulcers and breast blisters, as they are constantly given drugs to make them large in time for the holidays. Also, a good question to consider is why Americans mark this holiday with a turkey sacrifice instead of murdering a deer, a duck, or another animal. There is no record that indicates a turkey was eaten at the first Thanksgiving feast. In addition, Thanksgiving didn't become a large American holiday until 1863.