This Is Us

I have been thinking a lot about my speech and I have been pacing this way and that way and I have been stepping so many steps that, if I do say so myself, I may even be losing a little bit of the weight that I have gained being a lazy turkey through the cold winter months.

The sun is shining today and the biggest thought about my speech is that this speech is for the animals here on this very farm. Today at lunch Petunia said something that keeps replaying in my turkey brain and what she said was this: "If we don't want people to eat us we first need to define who 'us' is."

And I thought this was very smart for several reasons and one of those reasons is that this goes beyond our little Farmyard Four group. I have been reading on google all the kinds of animals that people eat and so many of them are here on the farm and I bet the chickens don't even know how many chickens the humans eat because all they are interested in is the gossip and the latest fashions of the day and I think getting through to them will be the hardest because honestly sometimes I do not even know if they are walking towards me or walking away from me, that is how much they circle around in their little steps.

Barry seemed less enthusiastic about Petunia's comment and he is seeming less enthusiastic about me giving a speech and I think it is because his name for our little group got outvoted but also he is not on the list of animals that humans eat so I think maybe he is having a hard time understanding why this is such an important issue for Petunia, Carmel and myself.

We are trying to help him to understand but he did not say much today at lunch and he was the first to get up and leave after and maybe I should just have a chat with him one on one, turkey to cat, just to check in and see how he is really doing.