Do You Give Green Thanks?

You can buy your produce with enough time in advance that you can hit the farmers' market that week and ensure that all your produce is sourced locally. Thanks to the early pioneers and their adherence to local eating, traditional Thanksgiving recipes are made from mostly fall foods. The recipes are made up of root vegetables, squash, and fall fruits which are hearty and can hold up very well for at least four days.

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While the domesticated turkey cannot fly, the wild turkey can fly up to 55 mph. That seems pretty unfair for all those farmed turkeys out there. If we stopped eating turkeys and all the turkey farms closed, eventually all the turkeys would be wild and soaring to new heights. Turkeys are pretty amazing animals. In fact, they can run 25 mph. That beats any human I know.

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Proposition 2 was passed in California last year by a vote of 63.3 percent. The bill says that no farm animals can be confined so that they cannot turn around or stand up and fully extend their limbs. While it?s prohibited in California, it still goes on for farm animals across the country. Speak against this sort of inhumane treatment with your dollars by eating a vegetarian main course or buying humanely produced turkeys.

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Americans typically throw away about 27 percent of the food available for consumption according to the New York Times, and all but about 2 percent of that food ends up in landfills. Thanksgiving is a major waste holiday. This year don?t cook so much food and don?t buy a 20 pound bird for a family of four. The recommended serving size on Thanksgiving for a main course is 1 pound per person so take that into account when you?re shopping for a turkey.

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By promoting genetic biodiversity within the species, Heritage breed turkeys like Good Shepherd Turkey Ranch have helped to increase the number of rare breeds of turkeys in this country by double. Many are also certified by the Animal Welfare Institute and in the case of Good Shepherd Turkey Ranch, you can see the feeding history right on the label.

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The Tofurky Vegetarian Feast is organic, vegan, and free of GMOs. And the packaging is all recycled. The feast comes with the roast, dumplings, gravy, stuffing, and jerky all for $55. That?s quite a deal for a guilt-free meal. From animal cruelty to pollution and land use, there are a variety of reasons to celebrate the turkey instead of eating it.

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These all serve to reduce your energy output on this massive cooking holiday. If the oven isn?t filled to capacity the temperature drops inside it. Microwaves use a fraction of the energy that ovens do. And finally, hand washing dishes wastes way more water than simply running the dishwasher. You can also increase efficiency by keeping the oven door shut and using the proper burner on the stove.

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As we celebrate the first harvest, take into account that one of our most celebrated crops, the cranberry, was once a staple of New England and today according to Corby Kummer in the New York Times, as a result of climate change the yields on crops such as these have shrunk markedly. Weed and pest problems have increased due to warmer temperatures and today much of the crop has moved to Canada.

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Buy Nothing Day is a global phenomenon in response to the over consumption that goes on through Thanksgiving Day and into Black Friday. Today 65 countries observe the holiday by purchasing absolutely nothing. It was started by the Adbusters Foundation. According to Kalle Lasn, co-founder of Adbusters.

"Our headlong plunge into ecological collapse requires a profound shift in the way we see things. Driving hybrid cars and limiting industrial emissions is great, but they are band-aid solutions if we don?t address the core problem: we have to consume less."

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Just by replacing one package of paper napkins with cloth napkins, you could save 1 million trees. Why not go paperless this Thanksgiving and instead use linens, evites, and reusable dishware and silverware? Think how many trees you could spare.

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