TopoftheAbyss said:
There is something called 4 seasons. Winter, spring, summer, fall. In spring and summer, plants and animals grow. In fall, some kinds of plants still grow, but most stop growing. Fall is when plants and animals must be harvested, it is the end of their life cycle. And in the winter, the ground is covered with a thick layer of snow. So plants are covered, almost all plants are not able to be eaten anymore. And for many animals, there is no more food for them. This is why many animals hibernate. The farmer grows plants and raises animals in spring and summer, then harvests everything in the fall. This food is dried, or frozen, or canned, or preserved in some kind of way, so that the farmer and his family can eat it throughout the winter when most food in the wild is gone.
One of the easiest and most common animals to farm, that even the poorest families could afford to have, are birds like chickens and turkeys. And in the end of the fall season, this is the end of its life cycle, except for a very small number of them which are saved to lay the new eggs in the spring. But you only need like 2, 3, or 4 to lay those eggs, and if you have 20 more, those 20 would be harvested. In the end of the fall season, this is the largest that the bird is ever going to be. If the bird lives any longer, it is only going to starve and get smaller, and it will not be healthy or comfortable during the starving. Whatever fat is in the bird, would be burnt and used up for body heat in the freezing winter. So the end of the fall season is the most efficient, beneficial, and moral time to kill the turkey or chicken. And most people would have little food for themself in the winter, and would be starving, so they aren't going to waste their food to feed the bird that is only getting smaller each day anyway.
The fall season is also when you have plants grow like pumpkins, squashes, apples, because they require a lower temperature to finish growing. And this is when the fields of grain are all harvested, either wheat or corn or whatever it is. This is also where the tradition of making a lot of beer during this season comes from, because after they harvest all that grain, they have extra that they use to make beer. Beer is one way of preserving the nutrients of the grains in a way that can last through the winter, because just having a big pile of grain would have a very high chance of rotting and growing mould.
This is why you associate all these foods with the fall season, because the fall season is the time of year when these foods exist. You're not gonna grow a pumpkin in the middle of winter. You're not gonna harvest the turkey in the spring time, because the turkey has not grown yet. Spring time is when the eggs hatch, this is when you have baby birds, you do not have the full grown bird yet. And the summer time is when the bird is eating a lot and growing, you are not going to harvest it in the summer because it is not done growing, it can still grow much larger. Fall is when the turkey is the largest it is going to be, so that is when you harvest it. It has nothing to do with any holiday.
The fall harvest is when you have one of the largest amounts of food out of the year. And when each farm harvests what they have grown that year, usually it would be shared in the village because each family grows different things. If I have wheat and you have apples, we would trade some so we both have both. And they would have a harvest festival where everybody would all have one enormous meal before winter comes, and each family would share what food they have made. Often the holiday would last for a week or more. So throughout all of history, or at least as long as there have been 4 seasons, this is the way the world has worked. This is nature, this is the cycle of life. And for all of time, there have been celebrations and holidays during the fall season, because the fall season is the season where there is an abundance of food. All the enormous work that is put in during spring and summer on taking care of these plants and animals, and the harvest is when you finally get the reward. This is Halloween, this is Thanksgiving, this is Oktoberfest. These are all celebrations of the harvest, thankfulness for having enough food that you will survive through the winter. But these are not meaningless holidays, and they have nothing to do with "just because it's a day and you decide to do it." This is simply the time during the year where you are in this situation.
So your entire idea that eating a turkey is a jewish blood ritual, it is just plain retarded. It just shows that you are absolutely ignorant of how the world works, or how seasons work, or the life cycles of plants and animals through the seasons. You kill the turkey in the fall because that's the time of year when turkeys are killed, and you eat it then because that's when you have it. That's why you eat a pumpkin in the fall, because fall is when you have pumpkins.
All you think about is going to the grocery store and getting any food at any time of year, with no concept of how life actually works. Because of enormous factory farms all over the world, hydroponic grids in Spain and farms in tropical climates growing billions of fruits and vegetables and shipping them in refrigerated ships and trucks right to your town every month of the year. You get tomatoes and strawberries in the middle of winter, perfect example. You live in such a carefully controlled synthetic environment that you have no concept of how life actually works, benefitting from an international grid of billions of dollars worth of efforts to ensure that billions of people can have any food they want any day of the year. Then when you see some completely normal part of the cycle of life that has been that way since the beginning of time, you are not able to understand it so you just call it some jewish blood cult. It is hard to imagine how lucky you even are that you are prosperous enough to allow you to be that ignorant. You don't need to follow any of the laws or patterns of nature, you just go to the store and buy whatever you want. You can get buy a fresh tomato when there is 3 feet of snow over the ground, then bring it back to your insulated and climate controlled home, and eat it without feeling any different than if you were in the middle of the summer.