Boy, I hate to put two animal misery videos back to back on the blog, but I couldn’t pass this up. This is a video of Sarah Palin, who apparently went to a turkey farm to “pardon” a turkey before thanksgiving. She then gave an interview while turkeys were being slaughtered behind her. It’s rather surreal.
Today was animal rights day in my intro class. It was probably the preachiest I’ve been all year. (Next class, though, is Famine, Affluence and Morality. That’ll take the cake.) I refrained from forcing them to sit through Meet your Meat, so I’ve decided to post it here.
If you eat factory farm meat, which if you eat meat you probably do, I’d suggest giving this a look.
Still not eating chicken, and still glad about it.
Pilgrim’s Pride dumping chicken parts in East Texas landfill
03:37 PM CDT on Sunday, August 3, 2008
Associated Press
MOUNT PLEASANT, Texas — A processing plant has begun dumping chicken byproducts into an East Texas industrial landfill, causing a stench and angering residents who say they live “in the line of fire.”
“It’s not neighborly to be dumping so much waste that it stinks up the countryside for over half a mile,” said Scott Thompson, who lives near the landfill.
Thompson told the Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune for a story in its Sunday editions that the stink from chicken parts is “so strong that it gave me a headache and made me nauseous.”
I never thought rice could be so appealing. It certainly beats the hell out of Estonian meat.