Thanksgiving Roundup I
A lot of great posts have been written in recent days, all of them deserving of your attention, so I'll share some with you today and the rest tomorrow.
- A Muscovy Thanksgiving Tale, from Animal Person. This striking story made me cry. The story itself is a sad one, but the ending is simply beautiful. Please read it.
- Thanksgiving Reflection, from A Search for Compassion
- Thanksgiving at the Sanctuary, from the Eastern Shore Sanctuary blog
- Veganism and Thanksgiving, from Vegans of Color
- Hypocrisy of Pardoning Turkeys, from Digging Through the Dirt
- Top 10 Reasons to Pardon a Turkey This Thanksgiving, from The PETA Files
- On Being Vegan, from The Traveling Vegetarian
- Honoring the Animals We Eat - Just Like the Native Americans [mp3 podcast], from Vegetarian Food for Thought. Introduction:
With a penchant for romanticizing their consumption of animals, many people declare that they "pray over meat" or "weep over the animals who sacrifice themselves for us - just like the Native Americans." Not only does this attempt to assuage our discomfort make no difference to the animals we kill (for naught), I wonder: who's praying for the animals who are still alive? Who's weeping for those who need our help? And if it's so compassionate to pray over an animal while we slit her throat, isn't it even MORE compassionate to pray over an animal and NOT slit her throat? Join me as I explore what's really underneath this third-rail issue and as I suggest that it is not only insulting to the animals but to the Native Americans themselves.
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Photo of Victor and Ariel by Deb Durant
Stephanie Ernst
wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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