At least once per week I come across a story in the Huffington Post Food section about how to raise or hunt and kill your own animals for food. One week it was a story about how to salvage road kill and turn it into a tasty meal. Another week it was an amateur urban chicken “farmer” intent on having her first chicken slaughter experience but didn’t have the heart to kill her own hens so she went out and found a wandering hen who had escaped from a live market which she brought home and slaughtered for a meal. The stories of these so called “conscious” people who are taking the journey to trace where their food comes from seems to have an endless stream of variations on the same theme. Yet the underlying premise of all of them are predictably consistent: these animals are here for our use, for us to raise, kill and eat as we see fit, because they have no other value or meaning in life other than to be our food. … READ ON

Animal advocate and rescuer Karen Dawn released a new video short about the turkeys that she has rescued and what life is like for them after she has adopted them. For most of us who know only dead turkeys tightly wrapped and on display on supermarket shelves, the spectacle of seeing living turkeys for who they really are as individuals is a real eye opener. The children in the neighborhood around Karen flock to get to know these turkeys and bond with them like true companions, as if they were dogs.
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