While others gush on social media or interviews over how they celebrate the holiday with their families and friends, these celebrities publicly denounce Thanksgiving for multiple reasons.
- November 24, 2019
AceShowbiz - Mayim Bialik has some strong opinion about Thanksgiving and she has several reasons for it. "The Big Bang Theory" alum explained that one of the reasons she didn't like Thanksgiving was because she's a vegan and is against killing innocent animals such as turkeys. "I don't like the tradition of killing a bird that in most cases has been genetically modified so that it's so big that it can't even stand up and then you lay its carcass on a tray and you carve it up and then you eat it. I don't like that tradition," she revealed in a 2017 YouTube video which was titled "4 Reasons I Don't Like Thanksgiving."
She also mentioned that she didn't like that people use this holiday as an excuse to eat too much food and that the holiday had similarities with Jewish holiday Sukkot, which is a harvest festival with plenty of food. Mayim touched genocide in her last reasoning. "The truth is, European invaders came to this land, took it from the indigenous people, raped, pillaged, gave them all sorts of diseases, called it their own, and desecrated a culture. It is one of the grossest examples of genocide in recent history and much as I don't want to think about that, it's really hard for me not to think about that when I think about Thanksgiving," the actress said.
