This Business Week story about what's happening to your Thanksgiving turkey right now is a depressing-as-hell must read. The industrial meat complex is complicated, but one thing is for sure: factory farming is fucking terrible for everyone, Butterball is hella shady, and free-range has its own problems. But perhaps…

When I first came across the Thanksgiving turkey pardoning website sponsored by the White House, I thought, "This is a pageant of bloodlust that illustrates the brutality lurking within the heart of every man, woman and child." Then I saw that both will be saved — but, still, it feels pretty dystopian to save and…

This holiday season, instead of shoving naked women covered in cabbage down our throats, PETA has released a video that cuts (oof) to the chase about factory farming and animal cruelty.

Here's some turkeys eating their very own Thanksgiving meal! Looks pretty good except I feel like the tablecloth is a poor choice for the holidays, should be an autumnal color.

Shockingly, a "turkey semen collection facility" is not the kind of place you want to be — especially if you're a turkey. A North Carolina semen-farm owned by Butterball was raided today after hidden-camera video taken by the animal rights group Mercy for Animals showed workers kicking, stomping, and dragging the…

"Some of you may know that recently I've been taking a series of executive actions that don't require congressional approval," quipped our President during his speech before he pardoned two Minnesotan turkeys named Peace and Liberty earlier this morning. Sasha and Malia were on hand for the festive pardoning as…

We're closing out another week of fall, and whether you like it or not, Thanksgiving is right around the corner. I'm not a huge fan of turkeys—though they don't freak me out like they do the woman in this video—so I avoid them wherever I can. But that will not stop me from loading up on mashed potatoes and pumpkin…

Dana Zemack has been making stick figure comics since she was 12. This week, she made one just for us.

"The Broad-Breasted White really is broad-breasted, so much so that it no longer easily can breed naturally. 'They're anatomically such that you can't get things to match up,' Miller Hays says delicately." Result? Artificial insemination. Happy Thanksgiving! [Shutterstock]

Feather covered thugs are throwing their weight around in the New York City borough. What can be done to stop the gobbling menace?

...if you're a meat-eater that is. Consider this an open thread for your commenting enjoyment until the next one, going up on Friday evening. Happy holiday to all.

[Washington, D.C., November 25. Image via Getty]