Many presidents like President Obama and John F. Kennedy are pardoning the turkeys that they get on thanksgiving but many people think that's a bad idea. People go hunting a couple days before thanksgiving and shoot turkeys. It's a tradition to eat a turkey on thanksgiving. The pilgrims ate a turkey when they first got to america. The pilgrims are a good example.
Turkeys are meant to eat on thanksgiving with stuffing and pie. Without a turkey to eat on thanksgiving, it's not the same. Turkeys don’t do anything, they dont eat animals they help our environment so what will happen if we eat them. Turkeys are a traditional thanksgiving food that we will still eat for several thanksgivings that come.
First, turkeys help us to not starve. Second, turkeys die anyway they don’t live for very long. Last, they can’t fly and they just roam the wild. Turkeys are our main food for thanksgiving. People just naturally kill turkeys for thanksgiving. We do have ham but turkeys the main meat on thanksgiving.
When people see turkeys in the wild they think of thanksgiving. Turkeys are a symbol for thanksgiving and that we should be thankful for what we have . When hunters spot a turkey while hunting they shoot them and eat them because that's what they do at thanksgiving.