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🗓️ 26 November 2021
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At Thanksgiving Americans express gratitude for family, the harvest… and a big, juicy turkey. Americans consume the most meat per person, but that's not good for the planet. Could they cut back?
The Economist’s Jon Fasman and his sons prepare the Thanksgiving turkey. We go back to a nationwide contest to find the perfect chicken. And Caroline Bushnell from The Good Food Institute discusses how to wean Americans off meat.
John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard and Jon Fasman.
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0:36.2 | Mary's Lamb is a poem that tells the story of a little girl who brought her pet to school |
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0:53.2 | As beloved as it is, it's not the greatest contribution to American culture |
0:57.2 | made by the writer Sarah Giuseppe Hale. |
1:00.2 | That was making thanksgiving a national holiday. |
1:04.2 | Already celebrated in parts of New England, including Hale's native New Hampshire, |
1:09.2 | she thought that spreading it across America would be a welcome unifier at a time of growing tensions between North and South. |
1:16.2 | By 1854, more than 30 states and territories officially marched the day, |
1:21.2 | but it wasn't until nearly a decade later that Hale achieved her goal. |
1:25.2 | Writing to President Lincoln in September 1863, |
1:29.2 | she told him only he had the power to make thanksgiving permanently an American custom and institution. |
1:36.2 | Soon after he did, and ever since, most Americans have got together on the fourth Thursday in November |
1:42.2 | to eat until they burst. |
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