First, there is this essay, at times wonderful and other times horrible, on the Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon from Orion.
Wonkbook briefly discusses the Orion essay here.
Wonkbook also brings us this very funny McSweeney's piece. Which is a nice play on the perennial question: What have the turkeys done that they require a pardon?
The agony of the rat or the slaughter of a calf remains present in thought not through pity but as the zone of exchange between man and animal in which something of one passes into the other. - Deleuze and Guattari, What Is Philosophy?
