The Big Feast

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Teagan Feeley Mr. Sasser Accel. English Period 8 Month of Essays Week #1 26 November 2012 The Big Feast “Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.”~Henry van Dyke. Thanksgiving has been a holiday from almost the beginning of America. It is a time of thankfulness and cheer, celebrated by the joining together of families with a grand feast. The meal usually includes mash potatoes, stuffing, and of course the traditional turkey. Even though the turkey is the symbol of Thanksgiving, the bland taste, cruelty to trukeys, and exhausting hours of cooking should eliminate it from the menu. First things first, the turkey has an remarkably bland taste. Turkey itself is rather dry and tasteless. You could smear melted butter of even bacon grease on it, buts thats not very healthy. In the wild the most common turkey eater, besides humans, is vultures. Vultures are the one of the only animals that will consume the turkey, but considering that they are scavengers that isn’t very impressive, they will eat anything dead. Humans normally eat animals that are herbivores. Because they have a fuller, richer taste. The turkey eats insects and snakes so the are technically meat eaters, causing them to have a weak and depressing taste. Also the turkey isn’t the healthiest food for you, it has many fats and cholesterol stored in its tasteless breast and wings. Secondly the cruelty of turkeys. The weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, forty-six million turkeys will be brutality slaughtered. Mental and emotional tests have been preformed on turkeys and Dr. Ian Duncan stated, “Turkey’s posses marked intelligence...we can prove this from their complex social relationships and their different methods of communication.” The demand for turkeys has become so great that they

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