What is Gentle Thanksgiving?

Gentle Thanksgiving is an opportunity to encourage friends, family and neighbors to adopt compassionate alternatives to unnecessarily cruel turkey dinners. We accomplish this by demonstrating the great taste and superior nutrition of gourmet vegan recipes and a variety of festive plant-based foods.

Millions of other caring folks across the U.S. are celebrating this Thanksgiving with a rich selection of delicious vegetables, fruits, baked goods, and mock meats replacing the carcass on their dinner table. The vegan bill of fare may include a 'tofurky,' lentil or nut roast, stuffed squash, corn chowder or chestnut soup, candied yams, cranberry sauce, pumpkin or pecan pie, and carrot cake. Sound good? Need some recipes? Click here.

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From PETA.org:

"Bush Pardons All Turkeys in 2008"

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You can also call 1-888-VEG-FOOD to hear this great message!

 

 

Breaking News Investigation Reveals Holiday Horrors for Turkeys Last Week

PETA goes undercover inside the Aviagen turkey plant in West Virginia 

 

One day later, Governor Sarah Palin gives a television interview at a turkey slaughterhouse in Alaska, where she "pardoned" a turkey, while live turkeys are slaughtered in the background! 

 

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UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATIONS INSIDE TURKEY FACTORY FARMS AND SLAUGHTERHOUSES

The video further reveals that not all chicks survive this harsh process. Countless chicks become mangled from the machinery, suffocated in plastic bags, or deemed "surplus" and dumped (along with injured chicks) into the same disposal system as the discarded egg shells they were separated from hours earlier."

 
• Tofurky Roast: This roast comes stuffed with a savory herb dressing and is available as just the roast or as part of an entire feast—with gravy, dumplings, wild rice stuffing, and "wishstix"—for a complete holiday meal.
• Celebration Roast: This is an artisan-made vegan grain meat with a sausage-style stuffing made from butternut squash, apples, and mushrooms. Available at select Whole Foods Markets.
• Veggie Turkey Breast With Wild-Rice-and-Cranberry Stuffing: This delicious vegan turkey breast is stuffed with wild-rice-and-cranberry stuffing and is available at Whole Foods.

Mrs. Gobble-Good's Golden Brown Pie

Serves 4 to 6 Preheat oven to 350 degrees

• Uncooked pie crust for placing on top of pie
• 2/3 C lentils
• 8 C water
• 2 to 3 carrots sliced
• 2 celery stalks, sliced
• 1 medium onion, diced
• 2 packets George Washington Gold or other vegetarian bouillon
• 3 to 4 potatoes, peeled and diced
• 1/2 tsp sage
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp parsley
• 3 T margarine
• 3 T flour

Cook lentils and 2 C water on low heat till tender. Put prepared vegetables in a large saucepan with 6 c water plus bouillon. Bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes. Add prepared potatoes to cooking vegetables. Cool all vegetables for 20 minutes while seasoning the lentils with sage, salt, and parsley.

Prepare a thickening by melting margarine in a frying pan, adding flour, then 1 C water from cooking vegetables. Drain vegetables and put in an oven-proof bowl. Add lentils and thickening. Stir. If mixture is too thick, add more water from the cooking process. Place pie crust on top and bake till brown (about 1 hour).

Recipe from Instead of Chicken, Instead of Turkey, by Karen Davis, Ph.D.

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