*Karen Davis Talks “Turkey” at UVA Nov. 15*

*Turkeys – Who Are They?
<https://www.facebook.com/events/185118602045200/>, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA. *
*A presentation by Karen Davis in Brooks Hall Nov. 15 at 6pm. Sponsored by
Animal*
*Justice Advocates. All are welcome!*

Sanctuary workers such as myself know that turkeys are intelligent,
emotional,
keenly alert birds with highly developed senses and sensibilities. Turkey
mothers are superb parents who will fight to the death to protect their
young.
The idea that wild turkeys are “smart” and domesticated turkeys are “dumb”
facilitates a view that turkey hunting is a benign collaboration between a
stalker and a “savvy” partner, and that turkeys bred for food are
brainlessly
“adapted” to factory farms.

In my talk, I draw attention to the moral miasma surrounding the
“Thanksgiving”
turkey, the ritual taunting by the media each year and ask – what if this
mean-spirited foreplay and blood sacrifice were taken away? What elements of
Thanksgiving remain? Karen Davis, PhD, is president of United Poultry
Concerns
and the author of *More Than a Meal: The Turkey in History, Myth, Ritual,
and*
*Reality* published by Lantern Books and available from UPC
<http://www.upc-online.org/more_than_a_meal.html>.

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the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl.
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