If you are a hunter and can bag a wild turkey that has lived a full life in its native habitat, enjoy! (But mind the buckshot!) If you live on a farm and raise your birds in a humane fashion, your care and nuturing entitle you to sacrifice the lives of your charges to sustain the lives of your own kind. If you live in a city and buy big, mutated, drug filled turkeys wrapped in plastic, you are an unwitting dupe of the corporate agribusinesses that are eroding America's environment, health and sustainability. Awareness and process are important. If you must eat a turkey and can neither hunt nor raise it, buy a "heritage turkey," one that has not been bred to the point of extinction, from an organic farmer who raises them in a compassionate manner. They will be more expensive, but they will be free of synthetic hormones, antibiotics, bad karma and corporate greed.

I have chosen a vegetarian lifestyle for many reasons, both out of compassion for my fellow creatures and concern for the environment. I don't begrudge anyone the right to choose their own diet, but please make a conscious choice. Don't buy a big "butterball" because that's what all the media are telling you to do.

Sorry, tofu is disgusting.
And I'm sure if turkeys were in our position, they would eat us too.

Im cookiing a traditional thanksgiveing dinner right now with all the fixin's..We onley have it once a year and there is no way im feeding my family tofu "turkey"..I have no guilt about eating this Tom turkey..Happy Thanksgiveing to all peace,sugarcookie1

To each their own, my brother in-law is a vegan. I have no problem with that and he either brings something for himself or I will make egg plant parm for him.
Had the best natural Pa. turkey today. My brother shot it hunting. Can't beat wild.

The arm-long ingredient list on the average tofu turkey box is worrisome. Soy is not necessarily good for you, esp highly processed soy.

I help my local economy by ordering and putting a deposit down on a free range local bird. The only birds slaughtered are the ones customers have bought.

The bird is always prayed over, and we give thanks that it gave its life for us. It is lovingly prepared, consumed, and used every bit.

This is the way our family has always done food. We do our best to appreciate the plants and animals that nourish us every day, not just on holidays.