Originally posted on Exposing the Big Game:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201311/slaughtering-sentience-theres-no-reason-eat-turkeys Millions of turkeys are horrifically raised and killed as mere tokens, but why? November 28, 2013 by Marc Bekoff, Ph.D. in Animal Emotions Many…
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