Turkeys are truly incredible;
they were never meant to be ‘edible’!
Turkeys are friendly and kind;
they have generous hearts and sharp minds.
Turkeys are loving and curious;
their killing for ‘meat’ makes me furious.
To be murdered, and turned to bowel fodder?
This evil makes activists shudder!
Killing babies1 is cruel, and insane –
making death of young life, pain for gain?
Turkeys are lively and bright;
Man’s ‘farming’ brings fear, dread and fright.
Their dark sheds are Hell on this earth!
For a meal-time of feasting and mirth?
Few get to meet them eye to eye;
if you knew what they suffered, you’d cry…
All turkeys deserve to survive;
live their God-given lives, stay alive!
Please save turkeys this ‘Season’ as friends;
we humans must make great amends!
Pay the ‘farmers’…and take them away!
Let them know the pleasure of day.
Heidi Stephenson
1 Turkeys have a natural life-span of 12 years. Most ‘factory-farmed’ turkeys are killed when they are just 12 weeks old. 515 million turkeys die globally (and horrifically) every year: each one is a sentient, sapient being.
https://www.farmsanctuary.org/news-stories/thanksgiving-turkeys-suffer/
https://worldanimalfoundation.org/advocate/how-many-turkeys-are-killed-each-year/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/collections/vegan_christmas_recipes
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Thanks for posting, Claire. There are so many nonviolent alternatives these days. It’s incredibly upsetting to think about what has happened/is happening to all those young turkeys. So much death and suffering, for a couple of hours of ‘celebrating.’
Comment by Heidi Stephenson on 10 December, 2025 at 12:28 pm