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Move over, turkey (Vegan alert)
Post Independent, Glenwood Springs Colorado CO ^ | November 17, 2006 | April E. Clark

Posted on 11/17/2006 9:43:00 AM PST by DogByte6RER

Move over, turkey

April E. Clark Post Independent Staff November 17, 2006

If Margie Garrett had her wish, she'd be having a turkey at her Thanksgiving dinner.

But this turkey wouldn't be roasted, fried or stuffed. It would be a guest.

"I'd love to invite one to dinner," said Garrett, who has worked at Good Health grocery store for 10 years. "I would love to have one as a pet turkey some day."

Each year, Garrett hosts a Thanksgiving spread that features enough food to make anyone forget about turkey. She's been a vegetarian since 1972 and, more recently, is a vegan, a lifestyle that avoids using or consuming all animal products.

"I'm telling you, by the time you finish dinner, you don't even miss the gobble gobble," she said. "I have all the trimmings."

Garrett's Thanksgiving menu includes homemade vegetarian stuffing covered with mushroom gravy, cranberries, salads, mashed potatoes, creamed peas, and baked squash stuffed with wild rice. Dessert features homemade pumpkin pie with organic whipping cream.

"People always ask me, 'Well, what do you eat?' But look at all this," she said. "The stuffing is so good when you make it from scratch."

For a turkey alternative, vegetarian-friendly stores such as Good Health sells Tofurkey, an organic, meatless tofu product that can be served alongside traditional Thanksgiving recipes. Tempe and tofu can also be substituted as Thursday's main course.

"If you're looking for a fake meat-type thing, one of the dishes I make - and I raised my family on it - is tempe or tofu diced up, sautéd in olive oil and coated with nutritional yeast on it," she said. "It makes a crispy brown coating that is almost like fried chicken."

Garrett has so many recipes for a vegetarian Thanksgiving, she doesn't even miss the leftover turkey sandwiches.

"I'm so determined for my love for the little animals, I don't miss the leftover turkey sandwiches," she said.

Being thankful doesn't require a turkey on a platter, Garret said.

"We're thankful, right, that we live in this valley," she said. "There's much to be thankful for, and it doesn't have to involve a poor little turkey."

Unless, of course, it's sitting at the kid's table enjoying a home-cooked meal.

Post Independent, Glenwood Springs Colorado CO


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KEYWORDS: soylentgreen; thanksgiving; tofu; tofurkey; turkey; vegan
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To: dmz; 50sDad

Good point.

In all my experience with my family at meals etc, you wouldn't know who was vegan and who wasn't. Same with professional meetings and events. Most vegetarians/vegans I deal with aren't militant about it.

However, I can always count on vegetarians/vegans to catch it on these threads, even though many Freepers are, well....
vegetarians/vegans.

I guess no one told them meat eating was a conservative requirement ;)


41 posted on 11/17/2006 10:35:17 AM PST by najida (If it wasn't for fast food, I'd have no food at all.)
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To: Condor51
lol I just watched 'Soylent Green' last weekend on DVD (from NetFlix.) Since so many of the environmentalist 'greens' relish this soy based tofu 'tofurkey' maybe tofurkey should be renamed 'Soylent Green.' If the euthanasia movement merges with the vegan environmentalists, and throw in a pinch of Al Gore and then poof! You've got Soylent Green! Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
42 posted on 11/17/2006 10:37:33 AM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: ArrogantBustard
Three or four gallons of bio-diesel feedstock, over a naked flame? I'll keep my wits about me ...

You do that, stay safe!

I've never seen what could happen, but I've imagined it plenty of times. My husband is always the designated fryer, because sober or not, that bubbling grease scares me to death!

43 posted on 11/17/2006 10:47:46 AM PST by Last Laugh
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To: DogByte6RER

Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter!
Ms.B


44 posted on 11/17/2006 10:50:15 AM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (women who behave rarely make history)
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To: 50sDad

>>Vegans are encouraged to look down their noses at we carnivores in exactly the same manor

More ammo just in case (you can never have too much ammunition)

THE NAÏVE VEGETARIAN : http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/vegetarian.html


45 posted on 11/17/2006 10:50:28 AM PST by DelphiUser ("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
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To: najida

We like to politicize everything here. I think my loafers are democrats.


46 posted on 11/17/2006 10:55:11 AM PST by dmz
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To: DogByte6RER

Not a turkey fan myself, but what else are they good for other than eating?


47 posted on 11/17/2006 10:56:16 AM PST by dforest (Don't get fooled, the bigger struggle is still out there, and growing)
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To: dmz

My cats sure are....

My cockatoo is a libertarian, that's for sure.


48 posted on 11/17/2006 10:56:25 AM PST by najida (If it wasn't for fast food, I'd have no food at all.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Tofurkey. That's disgusting. We're having 2 turkeys this year - one smoked, and one BBQ'd.


49 posted on 11/17/2006 10:58:42 AM PST by dontposttome
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To: najida
I respect anyone who cares so much about their own bodies and health that they are willing to undergo such an excercise as to avoid lovely, wonderful, succulant, dripping, fabulous meat. I really do. I salute them.

And the other side of the coin is, of course, I shouldn't be made out to be Adolf Hitler because I enjoy eating an animal that is raised exclusively for it's meat and milk.

50 posted on 11/17/2006 10:59:43 AM PST by 50sDad (I respect other religions by allowing them the right to worship. But they still are wrong.)
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To: 50sDad

Hey, I eat meat.

I have a sibling whose diet is beer and meat and meat and beer.

I have 2 others that have chosen not to eat meat.

End of story with that.

Honestly, I've seen way more bad behavior directed at my loved ones who don't eat meat by mean spirited family members who are idiots and who think it's thier right to be rude idiots.


51 posted on 11/17/2006 11:04:08 AM PST by najida (If it wasn't for fast food, I'd have no food at all.)
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To: najida
"Living Fooder" - I think this would be a Klingon lifestyle. Ummmm - the Grach wiggles on the way down!

;)

52 posted on 11/17/2006 11:07:02 AM PST by 50sDad (I respect other religions by allowing them the right to worship. But they still are wrong.)
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To: najida
I have a (former) sister-in-law who is a militant La Leche League member. Made my wife feel positivly evil because she only breast-fed our daughter for a week before going to the bottle. This woman breast-fed her daughter until she was six. (That's not the child getting fed.) So yes, by all means, let's just be nice to each other. I agree!


53 posted on 11/17/2006 11:11:20 AM PST by 50sDad (I respect other religions by allowing them the right to worship. But they still are wrong.)
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To: najida

Our cats were specists...they knew they were better than the humans that they kept as slaves for their own maintenace. (We loved them anyway!)


54 posted on 11/17/2006 11:12:36 AM PST by 50sDad (I respect other religions by allowing them the right to worship. But they still are wrong.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Why is there a 'vegan alert'? Is dietary choice now a conservative / liberal thing?


55 posted on 11/17/2006 11:13:57 AM PST by graf008
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To: Wiser now

How is it possible to live a life that is free from cow or animal by-products? From glues to cleaners, they all have some animal componants, don't they?


56 posted on 11/17/2006 11:14:53 AM PST by 50sDad (I respect other religions by allowing them the right to worship. But they still are wrong.)
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To: DogByte6RER

God bless the vegans. If there are enough of them to reduce supply, turkeys will become cheaper for omnivores like myself.


57 posted on 11/17/2006 11:14:58 AM PST by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: Mrs Ivan
My foot, vegetarians who claim moral superiority really get up my nose.

Exactly. Vegetarians who are because they want to be are fine with me. It's those who try to pull guilt trips. My husand knew a girl at work who used to talk about those who eat carcass. Her last day of work he said he would have meat in her honor.

58 posted on 11/17/2006 11:17:35 AM PST by HungarianGypsy
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To: DogByte6RER
"I'd love to invite one to dinner," said Garrett, who has worked at Good Health grocery store for 10 years. "I would love to have one as a pet turkey some day."

Till the first time (of MANY) that it craps in her house. I've lived out in the country and turkey is the WORST. Pigs are a close second.

59 posted on 11/17/2006 11:23:17 AM PST by nina0113
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To: Froufrou
I'm thinking of trying a Turduchen this year...

I got a frozen one a couple of years ago and was unimpressed. Steve is frying the main turkey, but I've got one still in the freezer from last year that I'm going to try smoking.

60 posted on 11/17/2006 11:25:04 AM PST by nina0113
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