Re: Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
We always feel uncomfortable this time of year. Why? Because Thanksgiving seems to be primarily about executing, stuffing, roasting, and eating a large, defenceless (we will grant--stupid) BIRD! We feel great sympathy for the domestic turkey. Raised solely to provide an enormous meal for an extended human family, the same humans then turn and accuse them of stupidity and ugliness. Who, we ask, bred these qualities into them? Wild turkeys are clever and impressive birds! Of course, that doesn't stop humans from eating them, too--but at least the humans have to undergo discomfort and effort to get one! The domestic ones are delivered, frozen and dressed, to the supermarket! We think the focus of Thanksgiving should be on gratitude. The world's turkeys would be grateful if they were not the focus of the feast....and I think it would be a blow against global warming if we just turned the ovens off!
Geoffrey
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