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Default The First Thanksgiving - by Rynn Berry

On Nov 29, 3:16*pm, George Plimpton > wrote:
> ****wit David Harrison - *Goo* - kept his fourteen year string of
> futility alive with:
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> > On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:18:56 -0800, George Plimpton wrote:

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> >> On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:02:30 -0500, ****wit David Harrison - *Goo* - kept his fourteen year string of futility alive with:

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> >>> On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:38:01 -0800, George Plimpton wrote:

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> >>>> On 11/22/2012 12:57 PM, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
> >>>>> The First Vegetarian Thanksgiving

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> >>>>> [ Subject: The First Vegetarian Thanksgiving
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> >>>>> [ Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004

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> >>>>> The First Vegetarian Thanksgiving

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> >>>>> By Rynn Berry

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> >>>>>http://all-creatures.org/articles/tgveg-rb.html

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> >>>>> [Ed.] "But it's tradition," is the cry when vegetarians
> >>>>> wonder why killing an animal should make Thanksgiving
> >>>>> special. Vegetarian historian Rynn Berry begs to differ.

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> >>>>> The story of the Pilgrim's First Thanksgiving -- and
> >>>>> turkey's place in it -- has been shown to be largely a
> >>>>> myth.

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> >>>> No, it hasn't.

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> >>> Whether or no, millions of turkeys today experience life

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> Meaningless. *Their "getting to experience life" has no moral meaning,
> and therefore it deserves and gets no consideration from rational people.



You must have considered it in order to decide it doesn't get
consideration which defines you as irrational, Gooby.