Vegan Options Allow For Less Thanksgiving Cruelty

By Drew Costley

The yearly celebration of U.S. colonization and the slaughter of American Indians is upon us. Haven’t we had enough cruelty already? I think so, and I’ve got several vegan Thanksgiving recommendations – some natural, some faux – for those who are hosting vegans or for vegans looking to use the annual feast to turn some naysayers into believers.

Naturally Vegan Thanksgiving Eats

Of all of the naturally vegan thanksgiving dishes, my favorite is cranberry sauce. It’s a must. Last year was the first year that I was served the non-canned variety of the candy-sweet dish, so I’m not a snob when it comes to canned-berry sauce. I love it all. During my omnivorous days, I’d use leftover cranberry sauce as a condiment on turkey and mac and cheese sandwiches. Yum.

But there are several other dishes that are vegan, or can be made so, without too much work. Stuffing, which I’m not the biggest fan of, can easily be made without milk or eggs and some Thanksgiving cooks make it without them already. One possible replacement ingredient that can thicken up the stuffing is olive oil. If milk is absolutely necessary, there are several cruelty-free milk options out there like almond, soy, cashew and coconut milk.

Other dishes that can be made vegan without much work include winter squash, sweet potatoes, corn on the cob, green beans and sauerkraut. The popular condiment to go along with corn on the cob, another of my favorites, butter, can easily be replaced with Earth Balance or some versions of Smart Balance.

And finally, green beans don’t need to be braised with meat to be good, and as the great Huey Freeman says, “Vegetables cooked with pork counts as pork,” for those who were wondering. Vegetable bullion or a mix of other seasonings can serve as a tasty alternative to braising with meat.

Vegan Mac and Cheese

For all of those “cooks” out there who choose to make mac and cheese from a box, instead of from scratch, several of the big vegan food brands – Daiya, Earth Balance and Amy’s Kitchen – offer boxed mac and cheese.

Now, there are also alternatives for those who want to make mac and cheese from scratch. Ingredients for cruelty-free mac and cheese are similar to the dairy variety, with the exception of non-dairy milk, nutritional yeast flakes, tahini or raw cashews, depending on the recipe being used.

Vegan Stuffed Turkey

I was never a fan of traditional turkey, but I am a huge fan of vegan alternatives to turkey, my favorite of which is made by the all-vegan brand Field Roast.

Field Roast’s Vegan Stuffed Celebration Roast is much more flavorful and moist than traditional turkey. The stuffing in the roast is made with Field Roast grain meat, fresh cut butternut squash, mushrooms and granny smith apples seasoned with a blend of rosemary, thyme and sage.

Surrounding the stuffing is more grain meat seasoned with rubbed sage, garlic and lemon juice. The best part of this roast is that it’s pre-made and only needs to be unwrapped and thrown in the oven. The downside is that it’s kind of small and can get expensive if you try to feed a huge Thanksgiving dinner with these tasty faux-turkeys.

Other brands, like Gardein, Vegetarian Plus, Tofurky and Trader Joe’s, offer alternatives to Thanksgiving turkeys as well.

Vegan Wellington

Call me uncultured, but I hadn’t even heard about Wellingtons until Native Foods moved to this region last year and advertised its Wellingtons as a Thanksgiving centerpiece alternative. Native Foods is selling its Native Wellington at $29.95 for one, which serves 5 – 6 people, and $49.95 for two.

If that’s too pricey, there are also several vegan Wellington recipes online. One source offers the Field Roast Celebration Roast, wrapped in a puff pastry square, as an alternative to traditional Wellingtons.


http://fcnp.com/2015/11/25/vegan-options-allow-for-less-thanksgiving-cruelty/

What does anything here have to do with us genius Liberals?

You will change your lifestyle when rampaging negroes shut down commerce in this country, and there is no food to be had Vegan or otherwise.

There will be those(like you)who will throw their hands up, and welcome the rioting mobs, only to get shot in the head while shouting "Black Lives Matter"

The struggle will be in the larger cities here in the U.S. because the hoards of pillaging and plundering negroes will be afraid to stray into the rural areas - For some reason.

- dA rEaL fArTiAn - Wrote:
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> What does anything here have to do with us genius
> Liberals?


Gee, I don't know, written by a liberal for a liberal rag.

Ain't so much of a genius now, are you.

...But as word spread in England about the paradise to be found in the new world, religious zealots called Puritans began arriving by the boat load. Finding no fences around the land, they considered it to be in the public domain. Joined by other British settlers, they seized land, capturing strong young Natives for slaves and killing the rest. But the Pequot Nation had not agreed to the peace treaty Squanto had negotiated and they fought back. The Pequot War was one of the bloodiest Indian wars ever fought.

In 1637 near present day Groton, Connecticut, over 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe had gathered for their annual Green Corn Festival which is our Thanksgiving celebration. In the predawn hours the sleeping Indians were surrounded by English and Dutch mercenaries who ordered them to come outside. Those who came out were shot or clubbed to death while the terrified women and children who huddled inside the longhouse were burned alive. The next day the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared "A Day Of Thanksgiving" because 700 unarmed men, women and children had been murdered.

Here we go... Now is the time to rage on all white people, and Santa, He be white dawg, just saying. When did this start, I know it festered in libtard commies a long time ago... Red diaper babies like Obama and his commie mentors have put this bullshit pedal to the metal..Why? they are running out of time to turn this country into a Homeland instead of a Country named the United States of America, One Nation under God. Not one nation under a goat fucker pedo heathen piece of shit. Thats all I got to say.

True the Vote! Wrote:
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> Here we go... Now is the time to rage on all white
> people, and Santa, He be white dawg, just saying.
> When did this start, I know it festered in libtard
> commies a long time ago... Red diaper babies like
> Obama and his commie mentors have put this
> bullshit pedal to the metal..Why? they are running
> out of time to turn this country into a Homeland
> instead of a Country named the United States of
> America, One Nation under God. Not one nation
> under a goat fucker pedo heathen piece of shit.
> Thats all I got to say.

If you truly want to follow the Puritans, no Christmas for you. They believed it was a pagan celebration.

Ying Ko knew he was a little queer as a young little queer, Gerry knew this about himself also, then they found each other here, A modern day queer love story, Ying and Gerry on top of a gay wedding cake would be a dream come true for these two.

The picture looks a lot like the nutri-loaf served at the FFX ADC in disciplinary detention.







Not that I would actually know anything about that.

Thanksgiving is a Christian holiday.

God1 Wrote:
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> Thanksgiving is a Christian holiday.


Hardly Christian. it was an American Indian celebration. The Christians stole it as they did Easter and Halloween. Many Christians stole Christmas, but not the Puritans who recognized the pagan origins.

"The Puritans particularly had trouble with the "date" of Christ’s birth, noting that the early Church fathers had simply co-opted the mid-winter celebrations of several pagan societies, which was, as we have seen, true."



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True the Vote! Wrote:
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> Here we go... Now is the time to rage on all white
> people, and Santa, He be white dawg, just saying.
> When did this start, I know it festered in libtard
> commies a long time ago... Red diaper babies like
> Obama and his commie mentors have put this
> bullshit pedal to the metal..Why? they are running
> out of time to turn this country into a Homeland
> instead of a Country named the United States of
> America, One Nation under God. Not one nation
> under a goat fucker pedo heathen piece of shit.
> Thats all I got to say.

The official name of The Pledge of Allegiance was adopted in 1945. The last change in language came on Flag Day 1954 when the words "under God" were added.

True the Vote! Wrote:
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> Ying Ko knew he was a little queer as a young
> little queer, Gerry knew this about himself also,
> then they found each other here, A modern day
> queer love story, Ying and Gerry on top of a gay
> wedding cake would be a dream come true for these
> two.


+1 +1 +1

GFY

"It is therefore sheer British jingoism which points to America as the country of Puritanic provincialism. It is quite true that our life is stunted by Puritanism, and that the latter is killing what is natural and healthy in our impulses. But it is equally true that it is to England that we are indebted for transplanting this spirit on American soil. It was bequeathed to us by the Pilgrim fathers. Fleeing from persecution and oppression, the Pilgrims of Mayflower fame established in the New World a reign of Puritanic tyranny and crime. The history of New England, and especially of Massachusetts, is full of the horrors that have turned life into gloom, joy and despair, naturalness into disease, honesty and truth into hideous lies and hypocrisies. The ducking-stool and whipping-post, as well as numerous other devices of torture, were the favorite English methods for American purification. "

Next year, you America-bashing liberal pantywaists are invited the join the rest of the nation in celebrating the first of many Trumpsgivings. That is if you haven't been tagged for deportation already.

"In 1637 the body of a white man was discovered dead in a boat. Armed settlers -- which we tell our children were God fearing, gentle, sharing, kind Pilgrims -- invaded a Pequot village. They also set the village, which included many children, on fire. Those who were lucky enough to escape the fire were systematically sought, hunted down and killed. While many, including historians, still debate what exactly happened this day, also known as the Pequot Massacre, it directly led to the creation of "Thanksgiving Day." This is what the governor of Bay Colony had to say days after the massacre, "A day of thanksgiving. Thanking God that they had eliminated over 700 men, women and children."

William B. Newell, a Penobscot Indian and former chairman of the Anthropology Department at the University of Connecticut stated, "Gathered in this place of meeting, they were attacked by mercenaries and English and Dutch. The Indians were ordered from the building and as they came forth were shot down, The rest were burned alive in the building. The very next day the governor declared a Thanksgiving Day. For the next 100 years, every Thanksgiving Day ordained by a Governor was in honor of the bloody victory, thanking God that the battle had been won."



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Ying Ko Wrote:
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> God1 Wrote:
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> > Thanksgiving is a Christian holiday.
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>
> Hardly Christian. it was an American Indian
> celebration. The Christians stole it as they did
> Easter and Halloween. Many Christians stole
> Christmas, but not the Puritans who recognized the
> pagan origins.
>
> "The Puritans particularly had trouble with the
> "date" of Christ’s birth, noting that the early
> Church fathers had simply co-opted the mid-winter
> celebrations of several pagan societies, which
> was, as we have seen, true."


What is your point? It was still a Christian holiday regardless of how you are trying to justify the origins. Get over it and accept the facts thanksgiving was never stolen by the white man you wacko.

Liberals can't do or enjoy anything without bitching about something or criticizing someone else..What a miserable lot they are

Ernest Wrote:
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> GFY
Attachments:

Yo can't have no Redskin mo fo's upstagin us. It was our people, the Niggers, who was mistreated.We made Xtro ordinary contibutions to this country through violence, raping and lootin. We even burn our own shit down fool. We get all the free shit bitches. Entitlement Niggers recognize

Indian giver Wrote:
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> Ying Ko Wrote:
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> > God1 Wrote:
> >
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> > -----
> > > Thanksgiving is a Christian holiday.
> >
> >
> > Hardly Christian. it was an American Indian
> > celebration. The Christians stole it as they
> did
> > Easter and Halloween. Many Christians stole
> > Christmas, but not the Puritans who recognized
> the
> > pagan origins.
> >
> > "The Puritans particularly had trouble with the
> > "date" of Christ’s birth, noting that the
> early
> > Church fathers had simply co-opted the
> mid-winter
> > celebrations of several pagan societies, which
> > was, as we have seen, true."
>
>
> What is your point? It was still a Christian
> holiday regardless of how you are trying to
> justify the origins. Get over it and accept the
> facts thanksgiving was never stolen by the white
> man you wacko.

Thanksgiving isn't a Christian holiday. It's an American holiday, created with the blood of innocents.Thanksgiving day should be known as National Land Theft and American Genocide Day.

Most of our holidays have never really belonged to anyone but fictionalizers and Madison Avenue spiel-writers. Making stuff up isn't the same as stealing it.

Ying Ko Wrote:
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> Indian giver Wrote:
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> > Ying Ko Wrote:
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> > -----
> > > God1 Wrote:
> > >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
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> >
> > > -----
> > > > Thanksgiving is a Christian holiday.
> > >
> > >
> > > Hardly Christian. it was an American Indian
> > > celebration. The Christians stole it as they
> > did
> > > Easter and Halloween. Many Christians stole
> > > Christmas, but not the Puritans who
> recognized
> > the
> > > pagan origins.
> > >
> > > "The Puritans particularly had trouble with
> the
> > > "date" of Christ’s birth, noting that the
> > early
> > > Church fathers had simply co-opted the
> > mid-winter
> > > celebrations of several pagan societies,
> which
> > > was, as we have seen, true."
> >
> >
> > What is your point? It was still a Christian
> > holiday regardless of how you are trying to
> > justify the origins. Get over it and accept the
> > facts thanksgiving was never stolen by the
> white
> > man you wacko.
>
> Thanksgiving isn't a Christian holiday. It's an
> American holiday, created with the blood of
> innocents.Thanksgiving day should be known as
> National Land Theft and American Genocide Day.

Nope, you are still wrong.

Who cares the reason for thanks given, I say club another tasty turkey and pass the gravy. The Indians can have the feathers as back payment for their land.

Give it a rest.

Someone had to tame this stone aged world. When Europeans first found America, the "natives" were still stick yielding each other. Raping, murdering each other for sport and territory. If not for European colonization, this country, and world would still be 500 years behind. And possibly might never achieve the White mans accomplishments.

Turkey sammich anyone?

Boston, the city of culture, has gone down in the annals of Puritanism as the "Bloody Town." It rivaled Salem, even, in her cruel persecution of unauthorized religious opinions. On the now famous Common a half-naked woman, with a baby in her arms, was publicly whipped for the crime of free speech; and on the same spot Mary Dyer, another Quaker woman, was hanged in 1659. In fact, Boston has been the scene of more than one wanton crime committed by Puritanism. Salem, in the summer of 1692, killed eighteen people for witchcraft. Nor was Massachusetts alone in driving out the devil by fire and brimstone. As Canning justly said: "The Pilgrim fathers infested the New World to redress the balance of the Old." The horrors of that period have found their most supreme expression in the American classic, The Scarlet Letter.

Once upon a time... Wrote:
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> Most of our holidays have never really belonged to
> anyone but fictionalizers and Madison Avenue
> spiel-writers. Making stuff up isn't the same as
> stealing it.

Certainly true for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The 4th of July might have had some different and more authentic roots though.