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Tofurky is made from... people.

as a good friend of mine likes to say, "if God had not meant for us to eat meat - he shouldn't have made it taste so good!"

think i'll go have a ham....

I'm waiting for some Moonbat to proclaim that plants have a consciousness on a level that we humans can't perceive therefore we should not eat them either.

I hear you get extra Moonbat points if you obtain your Tofurky 'freeganist style'.

Wow, not only is it made from paper, you don't even get that much. Plus it looks like a rolled-up cowpat.

I could do a play on the "Tofurky" name, but it wouldn't be appriate for a family website. :)

Jimbo, I did it already, nearly 2 years ago.

I went veg for nearly ten years...a few years ago, at Thanksgiving no less, I said "fugeddaboutit" and ate my turkey with gusto. I have not looked back since! Oh, and for the record, I have never had a Tofurkey. I spared myself that indignity, at least! Hubby and I initially did it for health reasons, although it's kind of like a cult...you begin looking at others who don't do it with disdain. I am glad not to be one of those annoying people anymore!

As a lifelong vegan and Republican, I would simply suggest that perhaps some of you should investigate how most of the turkeys in the USA are slaughtered for turkey dinners. Compassion is not "moonbattery". The sentient being, the members of the animal kingdom, are given equal footing and the beheading, imprisonment, torture or any other disrespectful behavior toward an animal whether a turkey or a man is abhorrent. In addition, most vegans would not buy such a product, but instead make a delicious nut loaf with plenty of vegetables to offer. And a million sold over 10 years in world wide market is rather teeny eh? Remember the day is THANKS giving not THANKS taking.

CR,

I know how turkeys are killed. They're killed more quickly and more humanely than most animals are killed in nature.

I'm going to think of you tomorrow as I'm unclamping my turkey and removing the innards.

THANKS-giving you the bird,
Bill the Butcher

Dear Bill the Butcher,

Can you truly believe that the killing of an individual animal in nature compares to the mass caging and slaughtering of thousands of animals at one time; with the others waiting unable to escape while hearing their mates being beaten and clamped and killed before their turn? Nature is never that cruel. Can you really use the word "humanely" to describe those conditions? I submit that you may not truly "know" how the vast majority of turkeys are killed.

I am sorry that you insist on "giving you [me]the bird" as I was just posting an opinion and but I am pleased you will be thinking of me tomorrow. I wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving and a delicious meal (do share it with someone who has less fortune than you).

Sincerely
CR

Just the other day I saw an Everybody Loves Raymond episode where Marie cooked tofu instead of turkey for Thanksgiving. It was hilarious. The writers might have gotten the idea for that episode from this Tofurky.

Just to bring some politics into the conversation, I'm sure most turkeys are killed much more humanely than, say, a woman in a Florida nursing home.

CR,

You're more than welcome to stop by tomorrow for some turkey. I'll save you the head.

Bill

p.s. Turkeys aren't human

I'd rather eat my own nutsack than tofurkey.

As a hippie babe where I used to work put it, "If God didn't mean for us to eat animals, then why do they smell so good when they burn?"

Also, since I grew up on a farm, I don't really have a lot of sympathy for the whole 'the slaughtering of animals is barbarism' thing because, intellectually speaking, cows and sheep and chickens basically are vegetables.

If that's not free range Tofurky, then it's just plain cruel. It probably spent it's entire life cramped in one of those little plastic water cups fighting for air.

No, give me a Butterball® with one of those pop-up things that tells you when you can rip the legs off and start chowing down!

Tofurky's not that bad. I am not a vegetarian, I am an omnivore which means I am equally comfortable scarfing down hummus or a medium sirloin. Not all veggies are moonbats but given the boneheaded B. S. that PETA has been known for, I can see where the confusion could come from. (Funny how they've shut up since their tax-free status is no more)

Looks delicious, reminds me of that thingy the doctors remove from my aunt's bowels about two years ago.
After further inspection, could be a weenie on steroids.

So I guess its more humane for turkeys, with IQs slightly below that of a Playstation 3, to run wild spending nearly their entire day hunting for food with the daily risk of being slowly torn apart by predators, being run over by a truck on the interstate or a hunter blasting them with a shotgun?

Well, dead is dead. Its probably more humane to just chop off their heads after their life of luxury in climate controlled turkey hotels being waited on and fed by humans.

Funny how the same people who bemoan the death of millions of turkey on Thanksgiving have no problem with human babies being ripped from their mothers womb - first the arms, then the legs then the head is crushed so the corpse can be extracted.

Who will speak for the millions of fish in aquariums who can spend up to 20 years swimming in a 10-20 gallon tank of water? I had one stay alive once for 17 years. It finally jumped out of the tank and died. Was it suicide?