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Not a 'Turkey Dinner' but Dinner for Turkeys!
Of the 260 million turkeys reared in the United States last year, around a fifth, or nearly 50 million, will end up on dinner tables at Thanksgiving, which is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.
Eliot, the turkey of the proud plumage, cocky swagger and vocal gobble, will not be one of them.
Instead, the weekend before Thanksgiving, Eliot and feathered friends at the Poplar Springs Animal Sanctuary in rural Maryland were guests of honor at their own dinner of thanks, a dinner where meat has two legs and hops onto the table to peck at melon, tomatoes, corn, greens and tofu laid out by humans.
Today is our annual thanksgiving with the turkeys, Poplar Springs' head human, Terry Cummings, told AFP after the sanctuary's six turkeys had been joined by other poultry for the feast, which is in its 11th year.
We do this to try to promote a cruelty-free Thanksgiving, to let people know that turkeys are animals worth caring about,Cummings said.
We like to have them as our guests of honor and show people a different way of having a Thanksgiving celebration to celebrate life instead of having a dead animal on your plate, she said.
Eliot very nearly ended up as a Thanksgiving main course himself eight years ago.
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