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100-Mile Thanksgiving Menu

Swap this for that to green your holiday meal
Lindsay Borthwick

A traditional Thanksgiving meal, in celebration of the local harvest, is probably one of the greener holiday meals you’ll stage this year. But even still, there are a few pitfalls to avoid and greener choices you can make. We’ve put together a little Thanksgiving exchange to guide you: By swapping each of these traditional ingredients for a more sustainable one, you’ll have a guilt-free meal in no time—that is as delicious as last year’s!

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Comments

You are a nutbar. Chill out.
Submitted by Anonymous (guest) on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 11:55.
re anonymous who is "a little uneasy" at the 100-Mile Thanksgiving Menu suggestions: i think there's a fair balance of options offered here and there are people trying to live a greener lifestyle for the good of the earth and their fellow humans, but some people will always have turkey at thanksgiving. but aren't you pleased that there's the suggestions for finding tofurky, or seeing the suggestion of trying a nut roast or vegetarian lasagne? sometimes things start with baby steps, and you have to allow for that. also, the "dying grandmother" example is in poor taste: i, along with many others, i suspect, will be celebrating the first thanksgiving this year without my grandmother. thanks for reading.
Submitted by ld (guest) on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 10:38.
I am a little uneasy with all this talk of turkey being one of the main dishes on every meat eating Canadian's table this thanksgiving. I thought I was actually going to see all vegetables and some kind of meat alternative when flipping through the pictures of the Thanksgiving dinner on your site . Unfortunately that is not the case. I am just indescribably unsatisfied with the notion that anyone can really put forth this as being "Green". How can anyone really call it "Green" Hardly! If you really put your mind to it you can come up with plenty of other choices rather than the "Traditional", "stuffed Bird" on your menu planner. This is actually the reason I chose to become a vegetarian. Being so fed up with the mass idea of "Green" "Thankfulness" and "Healthy". If we are all prepared to run around and kill these animals for our pallets so we can fit in with all the rest of the "humans" we live with on this planet how can we really call ourselves humans? Is that not an idea more akin to an animal? Our motto should be "High thinking and simple living". As a human we are able to give thanks. Think before you take your knife out to slice your dying grandmother a piece of that Turkey. Who you really are kidding when you say your thanking anybody for acting just like everyone else who are sheep following the flock. Dreaming in your waking state will never help you attain liberation from the bonds and shackles of the society you're living in. If you would really like to make our planet "Green", you have to think farther outside the box than "free range Turkeys". Check your internet and thank all the people who gave up those vegetarian recipes for the greater good of the common man who never really asked for anything from us, except maybe that we think green and stop our cause.
Submitted by Anonymous (guest) on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 22:19.
You can also use crab apples instead of cranberries.
Submitted by Anonymous (guest) on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 12:42.

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