Today is Turkey Genocide Day...

 And my Heart breaks for them again as it does every year around this time.. 💔

While you are expressing gratitude for your life and blessings this Thanksgiving, please open your heart, and refrain from harming and killing others for tradition, convenience, and taste pleasure. Just like you and your companion animals, turkeys feel love...as well as pain.

Turkeys are sentient beings just like you. Sentience is the ability to feel emotions, to perceive surroundings, and to experience life as a fully self-aware individual. Turkeys are socially-complex beings, with feelings, and a strong sense that they are individuals. They want to live. They want to avoid suffering and death. They fight for their lives just as we would if someone were trying to harm or kill us.

Turkeys have central nervous systems just like you, which means that they have the capacity to experience pain and suffering. Just like you and your companion animals, they want to form bonds with friends, to take care of their babies, and to experience love and affection.