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Keep the turkey off your holiday dinner plates 28 November 2004 ~ 20:21 I hope everybody enjoyed Thanksgiving, though I would hope (against hope) that it was not at the expense of the life of a turkey.Here�s a picture of a little girl with her pet turkey (which I recently found in a British magazine featuring people with unusual pets):
Yes, I�ll admit it, I am posting this as a post-holiday guilt trip for the lot of you. But turkeys do make very good pets. Far from being �turkey-brained,� they are actually very intelligent birds. They used to have a turkey at the petting farm in our local park. His feathers were very soft, and he was really friendly and gentle. Unfortunately, he died, as he was a rescued turkey who was originally bred for meat and his heart couldn�t take the strain of his large body. That is how unnaturally our fellow creatures are raised in order for us to celebrate human holidays. Turkey is not only a staple dish in America at Thanksgiving, however; it is also a traditional dish for Christmas lunch here in the U.K. (We don�t have Thanksgiving here in Britain, though I�m sure all of my readers are learned enough to know this, lol.) But my family and I have no intention of any life being taken just so we can feed our faces. In fact, we have Quorn� roasts. Quorn is a vegetarian substitute, which is very tasty, tastes just like bird meat, and is low-fat to boot. We all have that along with all the traditional vegetables such as roast parsnips, mashed carrot-and-swede and date-and-walnut stuffing, and veggie gravy. All this will be rounded off with chocolate gateau. It would be great if Quorn� could break big in America, but this hasn�t happened as a result of two things. Veggie burger manufacturers Gardenburger� have monopolized the vegetarian food market in the U.S. and have power enough to bargain their way out of competition. Secondly, some Americans discovered they were allergic to Quorn when they tried it. But people are allergic to nuts as well, and are the Americans going to ban peanuts? I should think that unlikely. (Of course, hubby nightdragon would consider it just to force Jimmy Carter out of the international relations circuit!) Let�s keep the turkey where he belongs�in the wild!
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