It's Wednesday, November 23, 2022.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a

Christian worldview.

This is our annual Thanksgiving edition of The Briefing, and we're going to be turning

to some really deep and I think very urgently important issues related to Thanksgiving,

but first we're going to turn to something that I found very interesting, and I think

you're likely to find interesting as well.

It comes down to the fact that when you think about the Thanksgiving holiday, and in particular

the Thanksgiving meal in the United States, for a very long time, the centerpiece of that

meal has been a turkey.

But here's where we need to understand there are some pretty deep issues that are always

raised when we look at cuisine, when we look at food, because it is so essential to who

we are as human beings, but it's also so integrally related to the development of culture, different

cultures, different foods, right down to different tastes and different diets.

So who came up with plucking a turkey and roasting it and eating it for a feast?

Well, the answer is we're not particularly sure, but at least human consumption of turkey

probably goes back to the earliest settlers from Europe to the United States partly because

the turkey is a native North American bird.

Now technically, two different forms of turkeys, but the most important thing to recognize is

that if you're looking at a big bird like that human beings look and say, I think that

might taste good roasted.

In one sense, by the time of the American founding, the turkey was so well known and admired

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