leahlee

are you anti thanksgiving Leah?


If so that's fine, create a new thread about it, but don't take over this thread of people talking about what they are thankful for by
posting about Turkey advocacy and how the colonials poisoned tons of indians.


It doesn't mix well.

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I am thankful for all the new people I have met through the shizz, Sherv, Colin, Steph, Mig, Beth, Matsu, Raub, and so many others.
I am thankful for my job my family, my friends, my new house and the ability to travel.
I have come along way from where I was as a teenager and have far surpassed my realistic goals in life. ( I had low expectations, what can I say )
So I am consistently aware of this and thankful not just today but all the time of these things.

since when do shizz threads follow a rule of having only comments that "mix well"? if you go to almost any thread you will find an original topic that goes off into several different tangents, depending on what people want to say. so i said what i wanted to say in a "happy thanksgiving" thread. if there have been new rules established about threads requiring a harmonious, linear, predictable flow, then, my apologies, i guess i didnt get the memo.

happy thanksgiving!


im thankful for:

free speech on the shizz!
community dialogue!
exchange of information and ideas!

As many people in the US prepare to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, we are reminded by animal advocates that the US slaughters nearly 300 million turkeys every year for consumption. Globally, the annual slaughter of turkeys is at least 691 million, suggesting that the US accounts for a sizable portion of the world's turkey slaughter. Per capita consumption of turkey flesh in the US has remained flat for about eight years, from a high of 18.2 pounds per person in 1996 to 17.3 pounds per person in 2004. Fighting against the continued consumption of turkeys during Thanksgiving and throughout the year, a growing number of animal advocates are highlighting the plight of turkeys using personal stories.

A personal account from author and long-time animal activist Jim Mason, featured on the website of Compassion Over Killing, discusses Mason's day working as an artificial inseminator for a Butterball Turkey farm in Missouri. Mason details the process of "breaking" turkey hens in order to inseminate them, as well as other issues like the plight of disadvantaged farm workers looking for employment. Other turkey advocates are emphasizing the positive aspects of vegetarianism, including Farm Sanctuary's "Adopt-A-Turkey" month during all of November, and meatless feed-ins by animal protection groups like Animal Place in California. The aptly named Turkey Story website (http://www.turkeystory.com) provides the story of one rescued turkey named Adam. Adam's rescuer details the circumstances of the birds' conditions on a factory farm and provides an inspiring story of rescue and rehabilitation.

Some animal advocates in California are taking a more direct approach to turkey advocacy. Earlier this year, East Bay Animal Advocates (EBA) conducted an in-depth investigation and open rescue at a turkey farm in Northern California. Since 2003, EBAA has rescued almost 20 turkeys from "free-range" and factory farms. According to one EBAA activist, "Turkeys are just like dogs, they're very animated and intelligent animals. It's hard to say that until you actually meet a turkey."

A brief history of Amerikkka's celebration of genocide:

In 1621 the myth of thanksgiving was born. The colonists invited Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoags, to their first feast as a follow up to their recent land deal. Massasoit in turn invited 90 of his men, much to the chagrin of the colonists. Two years later the English invited a number of tribes to a feast "symbolizing eternal friendship." The English offered food and drink, and two hundred Indians dropped dead from unknown poison.
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: The first day of thanksgiving took place in 1637 amidst the war against the Pequots. 700 men, women, and children of the Pequot tribe were gathered for their annual green corn dance on what is now Groton, Connecticut. Dutch and English mercenaries surrounded the camp and proceeded to shoot, stab, butcher and burn alive all 700 people. The next day the Massachusetts Bay Colony held a feast in celebration and the governor declared "a day of thanksgiving." In the ensuing madness of the Indian extermination, natives were scalped, burned, mutilated and sold into slavery, and a feast was held in celebration every time a successful massacre took place. The killing frenzy got so bad that even the Churches of Manhattan announced a day of "thanksgiving" to celebrate victory over the "heathen savages," and many celebrated by kicking the severed heads of Pequot people through the streets like soccer balls.
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The most interesting part of thanksgiving is the propaganda that has been put out surrounding it. During the 19th century thanksgiving traditions consisted of turkey and family reunions. Whenever popular art contained both pilgrims and Indians, the scene was usually characterized by violent confrontations between the two groups, not a multi-cultural/multi-racial dinner. In 1914 artist Jennie Brownscombe created the vision of thanksgiving that we see today: community, religion, racial harmony and tolerance, after her notorious painting reached wide circulation in Life magazine.
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: Adamant protests to the celebration of thanksgiving have taken place over the years. As early as 1863 Pequot Indian Minister William Apess urged "every man of color" to mourn the day of the landing, and bury Plymouth Rock in protest. In 1970 Apess got his way. 1970 was the "350th" anniversary of thanksgiving, and became the first proclaimed national day of mourning for American Indians.

 
Happy Thanksgiving!

 

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