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[mamculuna]

Sometime today I hope I'll get around to posting about getting back to yoga, but meanwhile, anita_margarita has the right ideas about Thanksgiving.

Except not for vegetarians, who may not want to follow the link (not gross, just normally carnivorous). I'm a non-factory-farmed-meat-only-for-special-occasions carnivore, but others have stronger feelings.

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[ann1962]

Thanks for the link. Great post!

a non-factory-farmed-meat

I call that happy meat, and I actually found some here the other day.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Yay! I also think it tastes better. Whole Foods claims that all of their meat is happy meat. It could be true. I mostly get mine from a couple of local farms, but in CA and Chicago, the farmer's markets are full of various stuff from happy farms.

We do get milk and cheese from a nearby dairy called Happy Cows, and I've met them, and they are. They rotate from pasture to pasture (here it's always warm enough, pretty much) and eat just grass, and when it's milking time they come up and kids can pet them. I don't feel bad about drinking their milk, at all.

[ann1962]

::nods:: Most of the health food type store here don't sell meat, so I was surprised to see it. It tasted a little lighter and was more tender than regular grocery store meat. I thought it tasted of veal, which I haven't had in probably 30 years.

We get buffalo meat here at most stores, and I actually saw goat at one of the chain stores the other day.

[siro-gravity.livejournal.com]

What a cute entry!!! I agree with everything except the canned cranberry sauce! I don't want it to be "good"...I LIKE the congealed sugar-water nastiness of it!!

non-factory-farmed is always a "yes!"

[anita-margarita.livejournal.com]

Actually, my nephew and his GF are vegans - except the other day on FB he posted a picture of his dinner which included a fried egg. He said it was ok because it came from a happy chicken. Whatever. His dinner also included a Budweiser.

Anyway, I always do include vegan food for them - I make a special vegan gravy for him, and use vegan margarine and veg broth and soy milk in anything Joe is likely to eat, and at least one dish that could be considered a vegan main course. Last year he brought a tofurky. I had some and it really wasn't bad at all.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

You are a kind aunt! I'm used to having vegan food at large meals, too--I often eat that way in everyday life. I haven't tried tofurky with trimmings, but they have it in the store I usually shop in and it always looks good.