Comments on: My beef with turkey http://angryafrican.net/2008/11/30/my-beef-with-turkey/ I have opinions. I am from Africa. I live here now. I blog. Tue, 08 May 2012 20:48:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jaliya http://angryafrican.net/2008/11/30/my-beef-with-turkey/#comment-3563 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:10:27 +0000 http://angryafrican.wordpress.com/?p=1875#comment-3563 AA, beautiful post. You have a way of circling around a hot issue, question by question … :-)

We are creatures of such contradiction, aren’t we?

When I was about twelve years old, I saw, close up, a turkey being killed this way. I was not prepared for what I saw and I screamed and buckled over …

Now I’m 49 and find there are no easy answers where dietary choices are concerned … It’s a fundamental truth that everything living must injest other living things in order to survive …

Thank you …

]]> By: scienkoptic http://angryafrican.net/2008/11/30/my-beef-with-turkey/#comment-3524 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:16:09 +0000 http://angryafrican.wordpress.com/?p=1875#comment-3524 GRrrrrrrr!

I know exactly where my some of my meat comes from! Sometimes I put in on the plate myself.

Turkey tastes better you know it didn’t live a long-suffering life before getting crammed head-first into the Acme De-header.

Hell We got together at Shady Thicket and grilled up some Venison and Skirt steak. (and it did taste better with the caramelized cane syrup goodness pasted all over it!)
Not a piece lingered long enough to get cold.

My girls know where their meat comes from.

I hear Nobody out crying over the hundreds of dead animals I see on the side of the road. These things only feed the vultures and the Maggots when they die.

]]> By: leahomar http://angryafrican.net/2008/11/30/my-beef-with-turkey/#comment-3523 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:25:33 +0000 http://angryafrican.wordpress.com/?p=1875#comment-3523 I’m laughing out loud at your post. I do think Palin’s an idiot, and I can’t quite muster up the nerve to defend her quite yet, but I will say this. . . so many people who were offended by that video, did in fact enjoy a turkey dinner. And you make a great point. . . This IS how turkeys are killed unfortunately. And, if that bothers you, take a stand and quit eating them I suppose.

]]> By: Caroline http://angryafrican.net/2008/11/30/my-beef-with-turkey/#comment-3522 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:38:12 +0000 http://angryafrican.wordpress.com/?p=1875#comment-3522 I don’t particularly like the taste of red meat – prefer poultry/fish.

As a child we used to eat a lot of seafood (my father owned a fish shop by the fjord). I used to cry when my mother boiled the lobsters or crabs because of their ‘screams’. One day I was so desperate I grabbed one of the crabs and put it in the wash basin. My mother laughed and told me that the crab needed salt water to survive so I promptly pored a packet of salt into the basin.

Traumatized me for life that did – ‘silence of the crabs’……

]]> By: Amber http://angryafrican.net/2008/11/30/my-beef-with-turkey/#comment-3521 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:03:00 +0000 http://angryafrican.wordpress.com/?p=1875#comment-3521 Brilliant post… it has inspired me to write something of my own experience…

]]> By: Janet http://angryafrican.net/2008/11/30/my-beef-with-turkey/#comment-3518 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:44:30 +0000 http://angryafrican.wordpress.com/?p=1875#comment-3518 I eat red meat from time to time and poultry. I didn’t find the video offensive as much as an odd location. When my children first lived in the Caribbean, they became more familiar with the food life/death cycle. It amazes me how many kids think chicken is a product rather than the result of an animal.

On a side note, knowing how much you love to barbie, we jerked one of the turkey’s on the grill this weekend. As you probably know jerk is a spicy seasoning well known in the Caribbean. Alas, it was the best bird we ever had. The sons are insisting (very carnivorous bunch) that it jerk turkey from here on out.

Just a thought, if you have to put up with the bird, it might as well be put on a bbq and taste good!

]]> By: Sahlah http://angryafrican.net/2008/11/30/my-beef-with-turkey/#comment-3517 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:42:30 +0000 http://angryafrican.wordpress.com/?p=1875#comment-3517 Ever read “Animal Vegetable, Miracle” by Barbara Kingsolver?
http://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/

It is the story of her family living off the land for a year. Interesting read.

]]> By: skuttlefish http://angryafrican.net/2008/11/30/my-beef-with-turkey/#comment-3516 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:50:55 +0000 http://angryafrican.wordpress.com/?p=1875#comment-3516 When we grill, it’s only the finest of Veggie Burgers…… yum yum……..wink wink.

Another reason the kiddies should eat all thats on their plates, to honor that animal/plant that gave it’s life so that we could live.

More palatable and plausible then the story about that guy giving his life so that we could live??????

Nudder great post.

]]> By: Ana Pires http://angryafrican.net/2008/11/30/my-beef-with-turkey/#comment-3515 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:40:49 +0000 http://angryafrican.wordpress.com/?p=1875#comment-3515 Funny story: that video made it on the news. In Portugal.

I eat meat too, but I’m not sure that’s the main problem. Even the guy with the turkey agrees, he keeps looking back as if thinking “you cannot be serious”. It’s just not exactly the best setting to give an interview in…

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