Karen Dawn’s Thanksgiving turkey rescue – latimes.com
November 22, 2011
Animal activist and author Karen Dawn makes a point of having turkey for dinner every Thanksgiving, but the birds are at the table, not on it. For the fourth year in a row, Dawn, the author of the book “Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals,” has rescued two turkeys from an L.A. slaughterhouse and is hosting them at her home in Pacific Palisades.
“They’re named Russell and Perry,” says Dawn, speaking from her home. “I had originally named them Russell and Katy, after Russell Brand and Katy Perry, who saw the movie ‘Forks Over Knives’ and Russell tweeted and said he was going vegan.”
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