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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Thanksgiving History


It's tradition to eat turkey based on the first Thanksgiving......not so!

Sarah Josepha Hale, who lived from 1788-1879, was an editor well known as the author of the popular nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb." In 1827, Sarah Hale, became the editor of a popular magazine and began calling for a national celebration of Thanksgiving and so began a 40-year quest to make this happen.

Sarah began writing romantic accounts of the First Thanksgiving including recipes for roasted turkeys, bread stuffing, and pumpkin pies.....none of the things would have actually been on the table of the first Thanksgiving. The first Thanksgiving had no turkey! They didn't even have pumpkin pie!

When we eat turkeys and pumpkin pie and cranberries on Thanksgiving, if we think we’re being true to some sacred tradition based on a real event, we’re not.

Just so you know.......turkey meat is abundantly laced with sodium nitrate. Sodium nitrate is a chemical preservative, but a carcinogenic (cancer-causing) one. Also, consider the fact when you eat turkey, you only eat the female turkey, as the female naturally grows larger than the male, due to hormones. Female turkeys are constantly shot up with synthetic hormones (chemical estrogen called estridiol) and thus, become so large in size that the male turkeys cannot naturally copulate with them. Therefore, female turkeys are artificially inseminated for procreational purposes. They are also given antibiotics that stay in the meat we eat. FYI... free-range doesn't mean they actually are free-range so don't be fooled..... look it up. I'm just focusing on what's in the meat.....you can look up on youtube and google about the cruelties they go through.

Think about this! You are what you eat!

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