Thanksgiving

             Thanksgiving-A Time of Joy and Agonizing Pain
             On Thanksgiving we gather with our family and friends, thinking that we are celebrating everything that we are grateful for and giving thanks to that. We do this by sitting around a large table of smiling faces with a big, hot, succulent, golden brown turkey in the center, that went through a horribly miserable death, just to get on our plates in time so we could celebrate our good times through it's worst.
             It all starts down on the large, terribly unsanitary, overcrowded turkey farms. Here the turkeys are filled to capacity with antibiotics and growth hormones to gain a huge amount of weight in a very short amount of time, which happens to everyone at Thanksgiving. This then causes the turkey's legs to become fat and swollen at the joints, creates deformed and crippled feet, and makes the turkeys very prone to heart attacks, which are the same symptoms for many overweight people today. Tons of turkey's live in cramped living quarters that look like miniature houses. Here they have barely enough room to lift their large wings or stretch their short skinny fragile legs. They stand in their waste and urine, while the ammonia fumes seep inside and burn their little, evil, innocent eyes and life producing lungs. On top of these overcrowded, unsanitary, so called living quarters, both the turkeys eating utensils (beaks) and means of transportation (feet) are chopped off with a hot razor sharp blade. This torture is for the good of the birds, so they won't scratch or peck each other to death. Once the turkeys have arrived at this the hellhole of a home there is no turning back. Millions of turkeys don't make it through their first week. Many times they drown in the water holes or stave to death because they were stripped of their eating utensils. The last time I checked you could use whatever you wanted to eat with. This is called the pre-paration or...

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