This morning I read on article from CNN on vegetarian Thanksgivings. Personally, I don’t think it’s news that vegetarians celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of us. I read the article not to find out what vegetarians eat on Turkey Day (because that seems pretty obvious to me), but rather to find out how much exactly could be written about vegetarians eating vegetables on a major holiday. Turns out you can write quite a bit about vegetable-eating vegetarians. Vegetarians eat things like breads, pasta, rice, potatoes, fruit, and beans in addition to vegetables. Go figure. Sometimes they even get creative and make bread loaves and jello molds in the shape of cooked turkeys! This article brought a thought to my little mind: Thanksgiving has become about the turkey instead of about the thanks. If even vegetarians are creating meat-shaped dishes in order to participate, then I think lots and lots of folks out there have lost track of the true meaning of the holiday. As cheesy as that sounds, it’s true. Now, Thanksgiving isn’t s a holiday I put a lot of stock into in the first place, but it has created a thought and that’s what counts. Despite the fact that Thanksgiving came about when Columbus sailed the ocean blue, created a society that took all that the Indians had to offer, then offed most of them, the holiday has been twisted to become a reminder of all of the things we are thankful for. Things like food, weapons, land, freedom, and family. You know, all of the things the settlers took from the Indians.
So what’s the point in the settlers doing all that work if we are just going to let Thanksgiving be all about the turkey? For the record, I think a vegetarian lifestyle is a health and respectable one and remember “Thanksgiving is Thanksliving.” I read that on a church sign yesterday. What does that even mean?
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