TURKEY (“Tis’ the season to be sorry…”)
Animal Rights Poetry By Heidi Stephenson From All-Creatures.org
Poems of compassion dedicated to the non-human animals who share this planet
with us and the people who fight for them.
TURKEY (“Tis’ the season to be sorry…”)
By Heidi Stephenson
“The best present a turkey can have at Christmas is the gift of life…”
(from a Hillside Animal Sanctuary Christmas card)
The tender-hearted, trussed
Upside down and terrified
Run free, my brother, my sister!
Killed for a day of Godless gorging
Endlessly persecuted (Evil by any other name)
You will be liberated, one day, poor friend…
In 2020 at least 15.9 million turkeys were slaughtered in the UK. In the
US annual slaughter figures are in excess of 87 million turkey lives: 22
million for ‘Christmas,’ 46 million for ‘Thanksgiving’ and another 19
million for ‘Easter’ [How
many turkeys are produced each year?]
https://www.sidmartinbio.org/how-many-turkeys-are-produced-each-year/.
And this is the horrific reality behind our cracker-pulling roasts [22
Facts That Will Make You Pass on Turkey This Year]
©Heidi Stephenson, December 2021
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