This past week is full of Thanksgiving-related posts and news, since Thursday was American Thanksgiving. Probably the most exciting Thanksgiving development was Martha Stewart’s Vegetarian Thanksgiving. With Martha Stewart and Ellen both championing the end of factory farming and a move towards vegetarianism and veganism, there might just be hope for the future.
Vegan Soapbox: It’s OK To Care About Animals
PETA: NBC Nixes Family-Friendly Thanksgiving Day Parade Ad
Laurie David: Eating Animals: Caring Is Not A Zero-Sum Game
Making Hay: What’s Your Thanksgiving Tradition?
Ecorazzi.com: Exclusive: “Eating Animals” Author Jonathan Safran Foer Celebrates For The Turkeys
Foodconsumer.org: Agriculture Proposal Gives Meat To The Poor–To Get Rid Of It
Animal Blawg: More Human than Humans
Vegansaurus: Defensive Omnivore BINGO!
GirlieGirl Army: Surviving Thanksgiving Amongst Carnivores
Martha Stewart: Vegetarian Thanksgiving
Digging Through the Dirt: Gore Walks an Odd Environmental Walk
Change.org Animal Rights Blog: Thanksgiving Dilemmas: Family, Tension, Killing, and Compassion
Paul Shapiro: Attacking the Messenger: Big Ag’s Attempt to Misdirect Attention from Its Own Problems
Huffington Post: For The Love Of Turkeys: A Real Thanksgiving
Business Insider: How Your Thanksgiving Turkey Gets Made
The Vegan Dietician: A Thanksgiving Prayer for the Animals
Mother Jones: Extremely Dead and Incredibly Gross
Animal Place Sanctuary: Happy Thanksgiving!!
NPR: The 10 Best Cookbooks Of 2009 (one of them is vegan!)
Digging Through the Dirt: Turducken: When Killing 1 Animal Just Isn’t Enough
Change.org Animal Rights Blog: Animal Rights and Gratefulness, for the Animals and for Each Other
Huffington Post: Top 10 (Recent) Developments On Factory Farming And Vegetarianism