10 Tips For A Sustainable Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is second in a slew of holidays at this time of year that have become one extended caloric nightmare. Marketers have successfully driven consumers to celebrate these holidays in an atmosphere of frenzied food consumption, often from everyday pre-packaged products festooned with special holiday cheer. However, you can say no to the pre-packaged cheer and have a hearty, sustainable meal. Below are 10 tips to a healthier, humane, sustainable, "low carb(on)" and labor friendly Thanksgiving from some fantastic organizations, some of whom we're working with for the Social Action campaign for our film, Food, Inc.

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[JuniorNorman]

How to raise ORGANIC TURKEYS!
Feed the turkey chicks cracked hemp seeds. let them peck on the green leaves for vitamins and chlorophyl. Let them run out in the yard and eat some worms each day. Turkeys fed this way will grow twice as fast as turkeys fed expensive agway turkey feed. Hemp seed has complete protein so the birds grow much faster.
You can take the rest of the hemp and sell the fiber and the bio-diesel. Three products from one plant. Try that with soy; birds wont eat canola or soy it poisons them! Canola oil is an insecticide! Soybean runoff has estrogen in it that turns the fish in the streams gay :)

[ggfree]

Seems to me the best way to have a sustainable Thanksgiving is to fast for the day.

[bubbuh]

What we need is a marketing campaign which helps reorient all theadult holiday celebration back into traditional channels: drinking and sex.

[jake106]

Seems to me that is a big part of the holidays already.