AlterNet: How Sarah Palin Created a Whole New Generation of Vegetarians

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How Sarah Palin Created a Whole New Generation of Vegetarians

By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. Posted November 27, 2008.

Unlike Alaska's governor, most Americans don't want to see the transformations their turkey went through to get to their Thanksgiving dinner table.



Posing for photographers with her felled caribou, her child inches from its bleeding mouth, Sarah Life-Is-Precious Palin is not confused about where meat comes from. So the turkey being slaughtered in full view of the camera as she conducted an interview at Triple D Farms in Wasilla this week probably doesn't faze her.

But most Americans don't want to see the transformations their turkey went through to get to their Thanksgiving dinner table.

How it lived, how it was shipped, who hung the struggling bird upside down on the conveyer to transport it to the awaiting blade, etc. -- are not thoughts that improve the taste of the cranberry sauce.

Nor will the economy get so bad people will have to take jobs as "live hangers" like Sam, not his real name, last year.

"Today, I saw about 50 dead turkeys on the trucks, and about 80 live birds fell onto the floor," he writes in a diary he kept while working at House of Raeford Farms in Raeford, N.C., the seventh-largest turkey producer in the United States.

"A worker tried to throw a turkey up to the double-sided dock from its rail side. The bird was about to hit the rail when another worker kneed the bird and then kicked it, knocking it back down to the floor. The worker threw the turkey a second time, but it hit the underside of the dock and dropped straight down to the cement floor for its third time that day. The bird lay in watery feces for about two hours before being picked up and hung on the line -- the turkey could keep its head up and blink; it was otherwise motionless." .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/story/108906/how_sarah_palin_created_a_whole_new_generation_of_vegetarians/

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1. Euphemism alert: "the transformations their turkey went through..."

Yeah, the turkey did it. It transformed from living to dead.