REFLECTIONS ON THANKSGIVING, 2015 “Cruelty to animals is as if man did not love God.” ~ Cardinal John Henry Newman Thanksgiving is a difficult time for vegans. We love a good feast with family and friends as much as the next person, but the great fuss made over the turkey is hard to take. We know that more than 46 million birds will die for Thanksgiving. We know that nearly all of them come from factory farms , where they have been bred to be mere caricatures of the birds God created, with breasts so big they cannot mate naturally and with such a fast growth rate that they often suffer seri...