to kill or not to kill... a turkey

though it's a bit late, i thought i'd put this link up to a radio program we heard while on our drive to thanksgiving events. the guest brings up a couple of topics:

contrasting happy, healthy turkeys with plenty of land on which to graze with factory-farmed turkeys, whose lives consist of dark, cramped quarters and growth hormones among other things;

discussing the seeming disconnect between being an 'animal lover' while eating them and turning a blind eye on the way animals grown for meat are treated;

discussing whether or not it's okay to ask someone else to kill an animal, if you would be unwilling to do it yourself. i'm sure i could think about it a bit longer and find plenty of jobs i would not do myself but am perfectly content to 'ask' others to do, but is this job different?

if you're envisioning crazy peta rhetoric, not to fear-- he discusses this in a very un-peta-like and un-self-righteous manner and is challenged by some callers. it's worth listening to (click on listen to this program in the upper, center of the page).

in other news... self-portrait at 23 weeks...