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Article: Fourth Annual Turkey Vigil To Be Held In Bethesda, Md.
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- November 15, 2001
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News Advisory:
For the fourth year in a row, United Poultry Concerns activists
will gather near the Giant Food store on Arlington Road in Bethesda,
Md., and urge people with colorful signs, banners, and leaflets to
skip the turkey this Thanksgiving and "Give Peace a Chance -- Go
Vegan."
Killing 45 million turkeys for Thanksgiving and 268,069,000
turkeys every year in the United States is not peaceful, and the
milking of semen and artificial insemination process by which
turkeys are produced is incredibly violent and obscene, according to
United Poultry Concerns. It causes so much distress that many
turkeys die from lack of oxygen due to the birds' struggling, wing
beating, and desperate ...