Happy belated Turkey Day! Are Turkeys dumb?

I hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving with lots of raw or vegan treats ;) I didn't have time to make anything, so I just brought fruit. You have to love how easy the raw food diet is! Although I would have loved to wow everybody with healthy and great tasting raw food. Oh, well. Maybe next year I will be the raw foodist June Cleaver. Maybe. lol

After the festivities a few of us were watching a food network show and they were talking about Turkeys. I started wondering if they were stupid, since I had recently learned that chickens were actually very smart on a vegan website. When I brought up this question, somebody said that turkeys are so dumb they actually drown by looking up at the sky when it rains. This just didn't sit well with me so I googled it.

Turns out that Turkeys are very smart. Many of you might know that we almost named our national bird here in the United States,you guessed it, the Turkey!
 

Ok, so why do people think Turkeys are so stupid? Well, in the wild they are actually very smart. The problem is, you probably guessed it again, factory farms. Yeah, put turkeys or chickens in disgusting, overcrowded conditions, torture them, starve them, etc. and than wonder why they are acting weird?! It makes me sick.

You should see the pics at Go Veg of factory turkeys. It just breaks my heart. They look like mutants. They don't even resemble turkeys anymore.

Now, I know in nature animals kills other animals and eat them. But they do it instantly. They don't slowly torture them for months, and than slowly, brutally kill them. And we don't NEED them to live like animals who were designed to hunt. We also should have a conscience. Now I don't care about people eating meat if they want. I don't think it's healthy in the amount most people eat, but once in awhile is fine, and probably even healthy (yes, a raw foodist admitting meat is healthy. I only say this because our quality and choice of fruits and veggies is so limited that I think we may need meat once in awhile)

BUT if you are going to eat meat, at least eat meat from creatures that were not tortured.

And if you still think you are too good to worry about these poor, defenseless creatures, if THAT is not enough for you...if you think I'm just some hippy ranting about saving stupid animals (I hope none of my readers think that way!)than I ask you to do it for YOURSELF. Why? Because what you put in your body effects you also. Don't think you can eat a living creature that suffered, and your body won't know. Not to mention it is low quality meat.

Do yourself and the turkeys a favor...if you are going to eat turkey or any other animal, eat quality not animals from factory farms!

Yeah, I was a bit of a party pooper reading over the procedure for turkeys in factory farms on Thanksgiving, but people need to know what happens! We need to stop acting like this isn't happening!

Of course, I wouldn't post this without giving you a site on ways to help out so check out Free Range Turkey

Women Go Raw-Mimi Kirk

Shelby Farmers Market-Indoors Farmer Market starting THIS saturday!

What a cool idea-an indoor farmer's market! We definitely need more of these in Michigan during the colder months! Shelby Farmer's Market will be starting that this weekend. Here are more details:
Starting this Saturday 9am - 2pm the Special Holiday Indoor Farmers
Market will run for the 4 Saturdays in November - no more weather
worries!! Lots of great local vendors, farmers, crafters and artisans
+ activities for the kids & a visit by Santa (from 11-1) take your own photos in time for Christmas cards - hope to see ya there! Or check out their site here.

www.needhemorrhoidhelp.com

I found another site, similar to Natural PCOS Remedy. Apparently this Karen lady is into natural healing. I'm glad to see she has had so much success with healing her medical issues naturally. Many of the programs she recommends deal with changing your diet. I think that helps a lot with balancing your hormones, which is especially important for women. Check it out at Need Hemorrhoid Help. While hemorrhoids are not a fun topic, they are very common, especially with the poor diets many of us have in today's modern world. Hemorrhoids can be come serious as well, if they are not treated properly.

Naturalpcosremedy.com

I came across Natural PCOS Remedy a few months ago, when searching for a friend who had infertility problems. She had great success with the program that Natural PCOS Remedy recommends on their site so I thought I'd share. I like anything that deals with healing things naturally, and without medical intervention. PCOS is short for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, in case you were wondering. It causes a lot of symptoms, infertility being just one of many, and often goes undiagnosed. Check out Natural PCOS remedy here.

ColorWheelMeals.com

If you are a Michigan Raw Foodist, and a parent, you will want to check out my friend Samantha's website Color Wheel Meals. I'm not a parent myself, but I can only imagine how it could easily seem overwhelming to try and change not only your eating habits, but also your children's! Children have different nutritional needs than adults, and also, you want to make sure they are getting enough calories, which can be difficult on a raw/living foods diet. Samantha has two beautiful children of her own, and has been successfully adding raw/living foods into her families meals to help them overcome their health issues with better nutrition. You don't want to miss out on her demo's, workshops, and coaching!

Michigan Health Coach

Sometimes we need extra encouragement to meet our health goals. It's great to have family and friends help out, but there is nothing like having a professional health coach give you advice and tips. I recently had a comment from Cheryl Heppard over at Michigan Health Coach and I just love her website, and all of the services she offers-especially the pantry raid and recipe revamps! I also like that Cheryl tries to keep things simple, since most of us all live very busy lives! Check out her website, you will be glad you did!