President Obama will get a break from "Obamacare" when he pardons the traditional Thanksgiving turkey. Each of us also can set aside our cares by pardoning a turkey and choosing a nonviolent Thanksgiving observance — one that gives thanks for our good fortune, health and happiness with a life-affirming, cruelty-free feast of vegetables, fruits and grains.
And here are more terrific reasons:
• You will stay alert through the entire football game.
• You are what you eat. Who wants to be a "butterball"?
• Your vegetarian kid won't have to boycott the family dinner.
• You won't have to call the Poultry Hotline to keep your family alive.
• You won't sweat the environment and food-resource devastation guilt trip.
• You won't spend a sleepless night wondering how the turkey lived and died.
