NoThanksgiving

Thanksgiving.

My dear beautiful people do you know what this holiday is?

I have just learned about it today when I was looking at how many turkeys get eaten in a year and did you know that in the country I am in called the United States Of America there are 46 million turkeys that get eaten just on this Thanksgiving day alone???

First of all, I am calling this day NoThanksgiving because, no thank you sir, I do not like this day one bit, but another 22 million turkeys get eaten at Christmas and 19 million turkeys get eaten later this very month at a time called Easter which I had to double check the spelling when I typed it out because at first I thought it said Eatsher and it was referring to only girl turkeys.

I am not good at math but the number of turkeys that humans eat is a number that is just simply too many.

And now get your eyeglasses out because I am going to change one little letter and it will be when I speak about how many pigs and sheep humans eat every year.

Sheep it is half a billion and pigs it is 1.5 billion. Yes you read that right!

The chickens - I feel the worst for the chickens - 50 billion chickens every year get eaten and yes I know I have complained about them and let me tell you on an interpersonal level they are the absolute worst but that doesn't mean that they should all get eaten. What kind of saint could I ever hope to be if I felt like that I ask you?

So this is the website that I found from google and I have learned how to make a link to it here.

The most interesting sentence on this whole page is this:

"In the last 50 years the number of people on the planet has doubled. But the amount of meat we eat has tripled."

Yes there are more people on the planet but they are also eating more meat per person than they have ever eaten and there are so many more of us animals than them.

I like people. I know there are good humans out there. My brain is all fuzzy fried when I think about all of this because I do not want to go to a war just because there are more of us than them and besides I do not think most animals are on the internet so having what I would call a "mobilization effort" would be very hard and so many of them cannot read either.

But humans can read and I can tell the animals here on the farm what is happening in my speech on Friday and maybe we can come up with some debates and some arguments that will make people start to eat animals less and, well, here is the hardest part of everything...

I think that not only did the man and the woman eat my friend Biggun but when I think of when it happened I think they ate him at Thanksgiving and then it was shortly afterwards that they started to feed me really really well and a lot of food and... my friends... I am worried that the same thing will happen to me this Thanksgiving.

I know that everything I am saying is about so much more than me but at the same time I am thinking a lot about me, too.