Re: Stupid Turkeys

["Peter Von Sholly" <vonrex@gte.net>]

Or that they realize they'e just being raised to be eaten.  (Making them
depressed and suicidal - but perhaps smarter
than happy-go-lucky cows, pigs etc. who seem to think life is just going to
go on forever.)

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> From: Jan Spoerri <spoerri@panix.com>
> To: jbois@umd5.umd.edu
> Cc: Sheila Culbert <sculbert@otag.com>; dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: Stupid Turkeys
> Date: Saturday, July 18, 1998 7:35 AM
> 
> ...And perhaps they drown themselves because they have come the complex
> existential realism that their life in captivity is a futile,
> meaningless endeavor without the remote hope for any sort of
> enlightenment.
> 
> -Jan