"Kenneth Leja" > wrote in message
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> Dear posters, what did we turkeys ever do to you? We're innocent birds
> who have done no one any harm.
>
> Yet you slaughter us by the tens of millions during the Thanksgiving
> season. Why? You say you want to thank god but what do we have to
> thank for? Why should we be sacrificed just so you can thank God? Just
> so you can stuff yourselfs and become fat and watch Football games.
>
> Please spare me and my family. Please don't kill us en masse. We're
> good animals, really.

When the turkey's stop eating insects I'll stop eating turkeys.

Why don't you start feeding them tofu.

Dimitri



http://msucares.com/wildfish/altent/...rkey/diet.html

The eastern wild turkey is a strong scratcher and requires a diet of diverse
plant and animal material. During their first 2 weeks of life, turkey poults
feed almost entirely on protein-rich insects. After 4 weeks of age, their
diets gradually change to those of adults, which feed primarily on a wide
variety of plant matter (seeds, leaves, fruits, tubers, forbs, grasses) and
insects. In addition to grassy "bugging" areas, summer and winter food
plantings that provide desirable foliage, fruit, and seed production are
beneficial. During fall and early winter months, turkeys use mast crops of
oaks, pines, and several other fruit-producing trees and shrubs (e.g.,
dogwoods and huckleberry).