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Dear Animal Times Readers,

In an episode of the Muppets TV series, there’s a daft Swedish chef who sets out to make chicken pot pie, lobster Thermidor, and roast turkey “from scratch,” entering the kitchen with ax in hand. None of the intended dishes has the slightest intention of cooperating.

“Take de turkey from de baskey,” says Chef.

“Take that!” says the turkey, bashing him on the noggin with the ax and heading out the door with ruffled feathers.

The lobsters and the chicken won’t cooperate either. Chef opts for a vegetable stew.

This holiday we must side with the turkeys, lobsters, and chickens and bring people over to the healthier, humane side of the table. That’s easy if you are armed with veggie dishes to share and fabulous facts, e.g., that a vegan is 57% less likely than a meat-eater to have a heart attack, that turkey flesh contains nearly the same amount of cholesterol as beef, and that veggies have no cholesterol whatsoever!

Real turkeys need your support, like the two little turkey brothers we found one winter morning walking together along a road traveled by trucks bound for the slaughterhouse. They were as bewildered as I would be if I’d fallen from a truck at 65 miles per hour. Yet they were extremely curious and talked to each other in elaborate sounds that you might have expected from aliens out of a flying saucer. They tilted their heads quizzically toward any conversation and investigated everything. Their gentleness, their polite nature, and seeing them sit quietly and close their eyes at the sound of classical music might—just might—have made the casual meat-eater become a vegetarian.

A turn-of-the-century political activist said, “Suppose that we had to kill for ourselves the creatures whose bodies we would fain have upon our table, is there one woman in a hundred who would go to the slaughterhouse to slay the bullock, the calf, the sheep, or the pig?”

Of course, hard-hearted souls aside, most wouldn’t raise that knife any more than they’d throw a live cat or dog into boiling water, which happens in other places. Yet, they don’t even bat an eye at tanks of lobsters awaiting that fate. So this holiday, let’s do whatever it takes to help them overcome their prejudices and “relate to who’s on their plate!”

Happy holiday educating!

Ingrid E. Newkirk
President

In This Issue:

I Can't Believe It's Vegan!	Chrissie Hynde Calls for International Boycott of Australian Wool
Dalai Lama Wants Tibet KFC-Free	Rescuing a Princess
Actions & Updates	Doctor in the House

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