Are vegetarians supposed to eat turkey on Thanksgiving?!
Are vegetarians supposed to eat turkey on Thanksgiving?
i thought i had to since it's a holiday where we're supposed to be thankful for the food we have.
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thanksgiving actually comes from the native americans, giving thanks to everything - earth, water, air, food. . .everything was sacred. they literally took nothing for granted. everything they picked from the earth, they gave deep profound thanks for it, practiced rituals, used every small piece of anything they had so as not to waste. when the settlers came in, they witnessed this in the natives. then they pretended to befriend the natives, while the natives taught them other things. meanwhile, the settlers started poisoning the native americans to start killing them off. then continued the tradition of thanksgiving.
being thankful doesn't mean you have to eat the turkey on the table. you can be thankful for who you are sitting by (that's a big one there because there's people like me who have no family), you can be thankful for the fruits and vegetables, you can be thankful to the earth, you can be thankful for your friends. there's a zillion other things you can be thankful for. so just because you don't eat a turkey, you certainly shouldn't feel thankless. i know i wouldn't eat a turkey. . .