RE: vegetarians, Thanksgiving turkey, eating puppies

Why do we only eat ugly animals like cows, chickens, pigs, and.... TURKEYS!
Even the most rabid American carnivore would never contemplate eating a dog/puppy or cat/kitten. Anyone for roast penguin? Didn't think so.
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Photo: 'Pumpkin', one of two turkeys pardoned by US President George W. Bush watches as the annual turkey pardoning ceremony on November 26, 2008, at the White House in Washington, DC. By Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/face-of-the--21....
Some videos you just have to see to believe. On Thursday, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin appeared in Wasilla in order to pardon a local turkey in anticipation of Thanksgiving. This proved to be a slightly absurd but ultimately unremarkable event. But what came next was positively surreal. After the pardon Palin proceeded to do an interview with a local TV station while the turkeys were being SLAUGHTERED in the background!! Seemingly oblivious to the gruesomeness going on over her shoulder, she carries on talking for over three minutes. Watch the video below to see for yourself. Be warned, it's kind of gruesome.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/20/sarah-palin-holds-news-co_n_145375.html
Truth to Power: Turkey Sucks By Matthew Yglesias
Ever noticed that your favorite dishes from your traditional family Thanksgiving are all sides? And that that one time you had Thanksgiving dinner outside your traditional family gathering the best dishes there were sides? And how when your friends organized a fauxsgiving festival the week before Thanksgiving the best dishes were sides? Thats because turkey doesnt taste good. Not that it has to be terrible. But at best, you come out with a neutral flavored bit of protein thats not so dry as to have a repugnant texture and therefore becomes a decent vehicle for gravy. But note that you could have just bought a very unimpressive Safeway Select Artisan Baguette and accomplished the same thing for way less money in way less time.

In a day and age when Michael Pollan can urge the United States to buck the farm-and-beef lobby and radically revise national agriculture policy surely a cookbook author and recognized food expert can urge the discerning cookbook reader to buck the turkey lobby and cook something that tastes good for his (or her) family. Keep the parts of Thanksgiving that people like — the cranberry sauce, the stuffing, the yams — and for a main course cook something good. Multiple chickens! A goose! Spencers bacon-wrapped pork!

But instead of doing this, I see all manner of foodies wracking their brains for ways to make turkey taste good. By which they mean tolerable. But the problem lies not with your recipe or with your technique — its built into the birds. As everyone knows, commercial tomatoes have been bred to (a) look very red and (b) hold up well during shipping. Consequently, commercial tomatoes are very red and can be shipped long-distance. But no matter what you do with them, they dont taste very good compared to seasonal tomatoes that have been bred for taste. Similarly, turkey breeders arent trying to breed a tasty bird. Theyre trying to breed a big bird and counting on the false god of tradition to force you to buy their crap. And when you breed something for size rather than flavor, you get a big, not-very-tasty animal.
http://internetfoodassociation.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/truth-to-power-turkey...

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[SmileOnADog]

Pigs are cute.

[hornetobiker]

As an alternative why not eat politicians? I reckon even some vegetarians would join in the festivities then. ;)

[snorlax0369]

My family once ate baby pigmy hippo while in Asia.

[psynema]

Most Dear and Pigs are cuter than a lot of dogs - ie rottweiler, pitbull, etc

[fsklrk]

Lambs are adorable and I hate thinking about lam chops.

[FiestyCat86]

I really have to negate your point that we only eat ugly things. We here in Iowa eat Bambi and his family, and yeah some of us feel bad about it, but hey we gotta eat to. We eat cattle that we raised from the bottle, and we eat pigs that we helped birth. We eat cute things but we have to make a distinction between pets and food, and its a personal choice. Some people get pigs as pets and can no longer eat pork...its personal and should remain so.

[luger74]

I'd stick my dick in that turkey.

[SuperTacoKidd]

I think turkeys are cute..

[soschadao]

you dont eat cats, in my culture we eat cats and dogs!

[101101101777]

"humane" nonsense. Palin is a fucking Nimrod.

Maybe the man in the background wants to cram Palin naked in that grinder.

Ppl only see farm animals when they're dirty and un-loved.

Palin cannot be standing up for women and the feminine principle supporting dairy and death.

[101101101777]

Farm animals are not ugly, most people never see them young, or happy, or in person, alive. So it cannot really be said they are ugly.  Every part of that turkey's body serves a function, no matter what ppl think of asthetics. I see plently of ugly ppl with human friends but we're not eating them.

[stevenwall2010]

I think the reason we eat pigs, cows and chickens etc. is because they are easy to mass produce.