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    Tina Turkey Pours Her Heart Out

    By Elsie Reimenschneider, Mobilization for Animals, submitted by UnitedPoultry Concerns (UPC)

    Noember !"#!

    Boris: Rescued turkey at United Poultry Concerns Sanctuary

    Stop for a moment! Heres something else to consider. hat aout all yourstated eliefs" #n the land of the free$ shouldnt an innocent$ harmless$

    lo%ing creature like me and all my turkey friends roam free" #n a countrythat prides itself on &ustice for all$ shouldnt # e one of the ones to 'hom

    you sho' fairness" #d ne%er chop your head off &ust to satisfy my appetite

    and gi%e thanks. (ay # count on you for mutual mercy"

    $%his is su&&osed to be a 'reat time of year h, yeah* %ry tellin' any tur+eythat-

    %hey say tra'edies ma+e you stron'er and .iser But 'ettin' your headcho&&ed off for nothin'* /hat do you learn from that*

    0ey, maybe, 1ust maybe, een if it .on2t hel& me or my +ind no., maybe it

    .ill hel& me hel& the .orld in my ne3t life Maybe 42ll be reborn as a human

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    bein' and no lon'er be a tur+ey 5 but still remember my un.arranted fateas an innocent bird and my 'rief because of it Maybe, 1ust maybe, 42ll use

    my first life and its horrible endin' as a 'uide to .hy and ho. to loe all ofnature and all creatures, includin' tur+eys, and not hurt any liin' thin'

    sim&ly for &leasure

    But in this life 42m still tra&&ed in* h, my 6od, .hat can 4 do* %his issu&&osed to be a 'reat time of year h, yeah* %ry tellin' any tur+ey that

    h, no 0ere and no., &eo&le are comin' after me and my friends and

    relaties 0el& 42m too youn' to die /hat did 4 eer do to you to deseresuch &unishment* 42m not a &erfect bein' 42ll admit But do 4 desere to die

    so youn' 1ust for bein' a bird* 7o you realize if you .ere one of us tur+eys,you8d be cryin' your eyes out* 4 am not a criminal9 4 didn8t rob a ban+,

    commit fraud, or set off a bomb %he only act of terror you can char'e me

    .ith is my o.n terror of bein' a tur+ey, and of bein' e3ecuted for a crime 4didn8t commit

    /here is your sense of 1ustice* /ould you thin+ it .as fun if someone +illed

    you 1ust to 'et a meal .hen there is so much else to eat* 4s this ho. yousho. your %han+s'iin' 'ratitude 5 by slau'hterin' the innocent* C2mon,

    thin+ about it %here are so many better .ays to sho. 'ratitude than by+illin' me and my +ind

    %hin+ no., you humans :ou su&&osedly hae 'ood brains, and most of you

    claim to hae 'ood hearts, so tell me honestly, do you thin+ the only .ay

    you can en1oy %han+s'iin' is to +ill, ;ill, ;4

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    =o listen, &lease9 4 be' you 48m not as+in' for money or to be President 48m1ust as+in' you as freedom>loin' &eo&le to find a .ay for me to hae

    freedom from fear of you, es&ecially at %han+s'iin' Promise you .on8tca&ture me and eat me, and 4 &romise you 48ll than+ heaen for you, not 1ust

    at %han+s'iin', but eery day of the year and eery year from no. to

    eternity Please, &lease, be fair to me 7es&ite .or+in' hard tryin' to 'obbleu& all my hurt feelin's and fears, 4 hae ended u& &ourin' out my heart to

    you 4, %ina %ur+ey im&lore you9 $Please

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    de(ense= animals cannot>-!% Richard !alore American Author and Animal

    Activist