The turkey was just an innocent bystander. Poor lil guy.
2007-11-22 03:31:40 · 34 answers · asked by Enigma®Ragnarökin' 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
VT♥Angel in Disguise♥: Did this question sound like it deserved "serious" answers? lol
*bows*
2007-11-22 14:45:39 · update #1
There is power in the blood of the turkey.
2007-11-22 03:33:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
To all vegetarian and vegans every where, you ask if I should give thanks to the turkey when in reality the turkey should be giving thanks to us.
Let me explain.
Thankfully we found that the turkey, cow, pig, etc taste good therefore we cultivate them. without our intervention they may well be on the endangered list for animals that don't taste so nice. Its you who should be giving thanks to us who keep them off that list.
Can you predict that in 50 years time there will be a white rino living outside a zoo where as I can predict that there will still be turkey's, cows, chickens, pigs etc well just for the rich.
So grow up stop thinking that you live or will ever live in utopia there are over 7 billion people on this planet. If you realy wish to make a differance reduce the population. Oooops sorry smack my head with religion " go forth and multiply". you know of course the world population is growing by 203,800 every day.
That way in 200 years the population will be over 14 billion and every one will have to be vegan because every spare foot of the planet will need to be cultivated for food for humans and no place left for animals. Although luckily you will be able to look up old films and pictures of them on the internet mabe even in 3D. Hey mabe your question will still be there under the dum questions asked throughout history section.
Maybe I'm cynical but I was born into a world of 2.3 billion people less than 60 years ago and now I am at an age where I don't care any more because its not going to be bad enough to effect me before I die.
2007-11-22 05:13:21 · answer #2 · answered by beware 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, actually, I do. Same goes for the vegetables and grains.
P.S. I'm well aware that neither the turkey nor anything else (aside from fruit*) "willingly" sacrificed its own life to be our food. Such is the case with every food. I'm still thankful for it and honor their deaths which sustain our lives.
* Many fruits have evolved to be tasty and attractive so that other things want to eat them and in doing so, distribute the seeds and make new plants. Most of our fruit plants are not harmed when the fruit is eaten, either.
Watsit: that's "Meet your Meat" in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams.
2007-11-22 03:36:08 · answer #3 · answered by kriosalysia 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am very thankful for the turkey that will be today's dinner. As I am for the venison I butchered earlier this month and the plants whose life essence helps sustain me as well. I always say a prayer of hanks for the food I am given. There is no difference IMO between taking the life of a plant to sustain your own and taking an animal. It's simply nature's way.
2007-11-22 03:36:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
that is ok i have saved a turkeys life this year no turkey only vegatables . I have decided to leave the poor things alone . I am trying to live healthier , mj
2007-11-22 03:41:06 · answer #5 · answered by mjbrightergem33 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
#1. I'm not american.
#2. I don't eat birds nor fish.
#3. Sacrifice is generally voluntary. No turkey ever voluntarily self-terminated.
#4. Predator and prey species have effectively been at war since the dawn of life. One doesn't thank the enemy for getting their butt kicked... irrespective of the motive for kicking it.
2007-11-22 03:39:09 · answer #6 · answered by Lucid Interrogator 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My husband brought home a turkey for Thanksgiving.
I named him Tom and put him out in the back yard to play.
Yay- I got a new pet! I am indeed thankful.
What is this sacrifice you speak of and why is my husband now mumbling about going out to eat?
2007-11-22 03:35:24 · answer #7 · answered by Pangloss (Ancora Imparo) AFA 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
No, because the turkey hasn't willingly, or knowingly, given his life to us, for our dinner or any other purpose!
That reminds me of a book I read, but I can't remember what it was called?
A pig goes up to a table in a restaurant, and tries to persuade the diners to have a piece of him, offering them the different cuts and joints?!
It's going to bug me now!!!!
2007-11-22 03:38:18 · answer #8 · answered by Watsit 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Awww!
I'm a vegetarian, but there will be a turkey for the omnivores today. I'll pat his butt for you and say I'm thankful he gave his poor little life for my family to eat.
2007-11-22 03:34:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I thanks the Turkey.
I thank the vegetables that he ate.
I thank the Sun and the Rain that fed the Vegetables that he ate.
I Thank the Ocean who disaporated into the Clouds that became the Rain that fed the Vegetables that he ate.
I thank the people who keep the Ocean Clean, whose waters are not too acidic, so they can properly disaporate and feed the vegetables who fed the Turkey who will feed me today.
2007-11-22 03:38:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋