Thanksgiving for the Wild Turkey
Tomorrow when you are sitting down to your Thanksgiving Day meal, consider the turkey. At one point this tasty main dish neared extinction in the wild because of human activity. Now again because of human activity the bird is making a come back. Granted, it was the Eastern turkey that was having difficulty but wild game is still something we enjoy seeing and in the case of the turkey hearing as well.
The turkey was Benjamin Franklin’s choice as the national bird since it played a big part in our history but the Congress had other ideas. The Congress chose the bald eagle though some thought is a cowardly creature because sparrow-size birds could drive it away in a fight. The turkey according to Franklin,
“For the truth the Turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. He is besides, though a little vain and silly, a bird of courage, and would not hesitate to attack a grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his farm yard with a red coat on.”
So while you and your family are enjoying a day of Thanksgiving so perhaps in the wild there is a turkey out there that would encourage us all to “Eat Ham”.
Happy Thanksgiving folks!