Opinion: Mister Rogers was a Thanksgiving heretic (via latimesopinion)
Don’t jump to conclusions about the Thanksgiving release of “It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” the new film about Fred Rogers, America’s beloved TV neighbor. Mister Rogers and the hallowed tradition of eating lots of turkey simply do not belong together.
In the early 1970s, Rogers stopped eating turkey — and meat, fish and other fowl — altogether. It was right around the time that Frances Moore Lappé penned “Diet for a Small Planeta vigorous argument for vegetarianism. But unlike Lappé, Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister who used spiritual language to explain his commitment to a plant-based diet.
Human carnivores are even missing in footage from Rogers’ visit to a family restaurant during a week-long series about food. Broadcast during Thanksgiving week in 1984, the five episodes feature Mister Rogers and his guests enjoying tofu, vegetables, fruits and nuts. Rogers also told his young audience that week about a different kind of sustenance: “When a person is very, very hungry, he or she can’t think of other kinds of food,” he said. “But there are other kinds. Music, for instance, is food for the hearing. And painting and beautiful scenes are food for the seeing. And books are food for the soul. And loving other people is food for the spirit.”
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