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Posted by Healthy Bitch Daily on Nov 17, 2011


Join Ellen DeGeneres This Thanksgiving in Sponsoring a Turkey

Turkey Day
Save a turkey. Eat your tofu.

That’s what Ellen DeGeneres is pleading millions of Americans to do this Thanksgiving.

Once again, the talk show-host-slash-vegan-poster-gal has teamed up with Farm Sanctuary to ask people to stuff their faces with something more compassionate this holiday season—and put their money toward a better collective effort than Black Friday.

For the Love of Bird

For just $30 bucks, you can sponsor a turkey and brag about it to your friends with a special-edition Adopt-A-Turkey certificate that features a color photo and stats about your new bird. (For $180, you can sponsor an entire flock and have adoption letters sent to family and friends). Apart from rescuing Antoinette, Elizabeth, Skip, Payton, Amelinda and Raphael—just a few of the turkeys up for adoption this T-Day—from becoming somebody’s dinner, your donation also makes it possible for the “birds of honor” to enjoy a feast of squash, cranberries and pumpkin pie during Celebrations FOR the Turkeys at Farm Sanctuary’s New York and California shelters.

Adoption Straight Stats

Since 1986, Farm Sanctuary’s Adopt-A-Turkey Project has saved more than 1,000 turkeys, placing approximately 600 into loving homes throughout the country. Awww.

Every year, about 250 to 300 million turkeys are slaughtered in the U.S.—more than 46 million alone during Thanksgiving.  The treatment of turkeys is a classic tale of factory farming cruelty—birds are packed by the thousands into dark warehouses where they are given about three square feet of space to move. They are debeaked and detoed without any anesthesia and sent off to be slaughtered after just 14 to 18 weeks of age. To top it off, turkeys and other birds are excluded from the Humane Slaughter Act (why?!), which lawfully states that animals be stunned prior to slaughter.

Cruelty-Free Table Toppings

Hesitant to swear off turkey? (After all, Thanksgiving is the one time of year when you feel comfortable shoving anything down your throat). Check out Farm Sanctuary’s Thanksgiving Recipe section, for a library of dee-lish appetizers, main dishes, sides, gravies, dressings and desserts. (Also, stay tuned for this Friday's Thanksgiving Recipe guide on HBD. You can check out some of last year's recipes we ran here).

Turkey Wars

Got awesome culinary skills? Submit your own vegan recipes for the opportunity to be featured on Farm Sanctuary’s website and Healthy Bitch Daily. Just leave us a comment with the recipe (no measurements necessary―we'll email you if we want the whole shebang). Deadline is Friday, November 18.

Bitchworthy: Turkeys know their geography. They can learn the specific details of an area of more than 1,000 acres.

To sponsor a turkey, visit adoptaturkey.org or call the Turkey Adoption Hotline at 1-888-SPONSOR.

Also, Farm Sanctuary is giving away three (3) free Tofurkeys to our HBD readers! For your chance to win, tell us how you make your Thanksgiving table cruelty-free in the comments section below!

*UPDATE: We've chosen our winners! Congrats Jenny, Ashley, & Kat!

Carly
Carly Harrill, Co-Founder of HealthyBitchDaily.com


A writer with a big mouth, Carly taps into mainstream media and the entertainment community to educate the everyday woman on making small changes that are better for her body and the earth—both on and off the plate. Carly is also the head of strategic partnerships for Healthy Child Healthy World, the nation's leading environmental health non-profit designed to protect children from environmental toxins.





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Stuffed acorn squash as a main dish instead of turkey

I have started sponsoring a turkey every year through Farm Sanctuary. It's become my new tradition :) I like to take my adoption certificate to my family dinner (in addition to my delicious and nutritious vegan dishes that everyone enjoys) and put it by my plate, in place of slaughtered turkey flesh. The first year I went veg it was hard for me to resist eating turkey, but now I have absolutely no desire to eat/support the inhumane industries and the slaughtering of these wonderful birds.

It'd be great to have a Tofurkey at this Thanksgiving dinner - we've never had one before!

We eat only home grown veggies & fruits from our garden. Healthy, delicious, & vegan.

I start my day by cleaning cat cages and dog runs at a local animal shelter (hey homeless animals need love on holiday too), come home and make my Tofukey Roast meal and celebrate with family, freinds and my rescued fur children:)

I've been 'making over' my mom's 'traditional' thanksgiving meal for about 10 years now. In place of her sausage stuffing, I use TVP with plenty of onion, celery, olive oil and sage, a great multi grain bread and vegetable stock. Everyone LOVES it! And we are already fans of the Tofurkey roast so that will be front and center. Garlic mashed potatoes with a mushroom gravy, green bean casserole - the works! Tons of goodness with none of the cruelty. That's something we all should be thankful for.

Eating veg for 20+ years and raising vegetarian kids has been (mostly) a walk in the park.  The kids are are smart, kind, healthy, good athletes - poster children for cruelty-free eating!  However, our extended familes are  - shall we say, less enlightened.  So for family get-togethers, including Thanksgiving, we used to ask if we could bring some gourmet "side dishes."  First, the relatives asked for the recipes, now they ask us to bring the food. :)  They will never give up the meaty main course, but they have expanded their horizons, and can all still enjoy special holidays and everyday meals together. 

This year is our first vegan thanksgiving. We sponsored one of the turkeys from Farm Santuary this year and I think it will be a new tradition. We are having cornbread dressing, cranberry dip (made w/ tofutti cream cheese), brussel sprouts w/ cranberry pistachio pesto, sweet potato casserole, pumpkin pull-apart yeast rolls, and two kinds of "cheesecake" for dessert - eggnog and pumpkin! Still undecided on main dish, though. We were thinking maybe okra/tomato gumbo but I would love to try a tofurkey ;)

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