Unpopular

It's time for my annual unpopular post. This is the one where I remind you that you can still enjoy Thanksgiving without participating in the Great Turkey Holocaust. If you're the rebellious punk rock type, like me, you can even revel in bucking the trend (as I have done for the past five years). It's not easy for most people though. Even if you want to eat plant based, there is a strong sociocultural compulsion to eat turkeys on Thanksgiving. "Everyone is doing it," as they say. Plus, the poultry industry has heavily programmed the general populace to think mass killing and eating millions of innocent turkeys is just fine for the mind, body, and soul. Quite the opposite. Eating meat slowly kills you.

If you want to accept my challenge and eat plant based this Thanksgiving, it's not that hard. Just make and eat a bunch of vegan side dishes.

Plant Based Thanksgiving

We had planned to have a 100% vegan Thanksgiving get together. But the omnivores in the family could not shed the yolk of convention and decided they will bring meaty side dishes to satisfy their internalized narratives about the holiday.

So, turkeys will, unfortunately, die for some family members this week. We had hoped to keep it humane, but alas...

I don't know if I should share the premonition I had that everyone who eats turkey this Thanksgiving will be stricken by a serious avian flu that is currently raging through the domesticated turkey flock. I don't think I will, because it's likely that my predictive visions hold no water. And that would just alarm people.

Fingers crossed.