Morrissey criticises President Obama over Thanksgiving turkeys

Bigmouth strikes for about the millionth time, with Morrissey penning yet another open letter. This time the subject of his scorn is U.S President Barack Obama and specifically the annual Thanksgiving turkey pardon.

The Thanksgiving pardon takes place every year, with the President “pardoning” a live domestic turkey picked at random, thus saving it for effectively being eaten. Morrissey calls this act “embarrassingly stupid” and “open support for a viciously cruel and environmentally irresponsible industry”.

Read the full message below, posted to fansite True-To-You under the subject “Thankskilling”.

Please ignore the abysmal example set by President Obama who, in the name of Thanksgiving, supports torture as 45 million birds are horrifically abused; dragged through electrified stun baths, and then have their throats slit. And President Obama laughs. Haha, so funny!

As Ingrid Newkirk from PETA points out, turkey ‘meat’ is one of “our nation’s top killers”, causing heart-attacks and strokes in humans due to saturated animal fats and cholesterol. And President Obama laughs.

Further, the meat industry is responsible for 51% of human-caused greenhouse-gas emission, therefore the embarrassingly stupid White House ‘turkey pardon’ is open support for a viciously cruel and environmentally irresponsible industry.

And President Obama laughs.

[via Pitchfork]