Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day. Yet even this day of giving thanks to
the Creator has been besmirched into a day of travesty – “turkey day”
indeed!
God’s creatures – the turkeys – have become one of the most maligned
of other animals. It seems to be a rule of human nature: As the
exploitation and ill-treatment of others increases, the contempt for
them likewise increases. And turkeys are high on the list of those
viciously abused.
We quit eating turkeys many years ago, before becoming aware of the
unspeakable abuse heaped on these beautiful birds. Much later we found
out about the way they are raised commercially. For positive change to
take place, the “unspeakable” must be spoken.
How many people know – or if they know, how many care – that the
turkey on their Thanksgiving table very likely has been subjected to
sexual perversion at the hands of humans? Factory workers masturbate a
male turkey for semen to be used to artificially inseminate several
female turkeys. If this were done to humans, there would be outrage and
the perpetrators would be locked up as sex offenders and perverts – and
rightly so.
Yet “Christians” will offer thanks to God for the sexually abused and
viciously maligned, cooked cadaver of one of His creations! What is
wrong with humans?! Maybe the reason they avoid the truth is because
they know that knowledge of the truth makes them complicit in such evil
behavior that ought to be criminalized.
James 4:17 of the Bible says:
17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to
him it is sin.
~ King James Version
17 Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do, and does not
do it, to him it is sin.
~ New American Standard Bible
The right thing to do is to stop eating God’s creatures. To continue
to do so is a sin and a mockery, because people are aware of their
complicity in the torture and abuse of these and other exploited
animals.
Galatians 6:7 –
7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap.
~ King James Version
7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows,
this he will also reap.
~ New American Standard Bible
