Forward of this yr’s “ThanksVegan” celebrations, PETA urged individuals throughout North America to decide on a compassionate vacation feast. Hundreds of thousands of turkeys are killed and eaten for Thanksgiving every year, however merely selecting to serve a vegan meal helps spare the lives of numerous animals.
Listed here are among the methods PETA helped make Thanksgiving higher for all animals in 2022:
For Canadian Thanksgiving, PETA supported native activists who held vegan roast giveaways in Edmonton, Alberta; Hamilton, Ontario; Montréal; and Toronto.
Within the U.S., PETA supporters gave away dozens of vegan roasts to passersby in cities throughout the nation, together with Dallas.
We additionally teamed up with U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) at hand out 150 baggage filled with the makings of a hearty ThanksVegan feast—together with vegan roasts, recent produce, and tofu—in Maryland.
CELEBRATE THANKSVEGAN 🌱
We teamed up with @RepRaskin & @tommyspantry to go out scrumptious #ThanksVegan roasts and extra to of us in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Depart light turkeys off your plate this vacation season 🦃💕 pic.twitter.com/iD7XWuYLE0
— PETA (@peta) November 12, 2022
Our Vegan Thanksgiving radio advert ran 30 occasions every in Minneapolis and Nashville, Tennessee.
PETA’s twist on a traditional youngsters’ Thanksgiving drawing—a bloodied “hand turkey” subsequent to the phrases “Turkeys Really feel Ache, Too. Don’t Have a Hand in Their Struggling”—went up close to elementary faculties in Houston and Springdale, Arkansas, with the intention of sparking conversations between youngsters and their households about Thanksgiving meals.
When PETA provided to buy 200 vegan roasts for Humane Lengthy Island to provide out in its space, it traded one among these scrumptious roasts to the proprietor of a stay poultry marketplace for a stay turkey, who will spend this Thanksgiving (and hopefully many extra) at a sanctuary as an alternative of on somebody’s plate.
We positioned “Pardon Tom” ThanksVegan billboards in Des Moines, Iowa, and Montgomery, Alabama, within the wake of governors’ turkey “pardon” occasions.
In the meantime, animal champion Courtney Stodden partnered with PETA to difficulty “pardons” of our personal to these pledging to not eat turkeys or some other animals on Thanksgiving.
ThanksVegan 2022 adopted information of record-breaking authorized progress for tormented turkeys.
Twelve former employees of Plainville Farms, a self-described “humane” turkey provider to main grocery shops, had been just lately charged with greater than 140 counts of cruelty to animals following a PETA investigation—essentially the most costs in any case of cruelty to factory-farmed animals in U.S. historical past.
Having an exquisite ThanksVegan at house is a compassionate and fulfilling option to embrace vacation custom with out harming anybody.
Most supermarkets inventory quite a lot of animal-free choices at wallet-friendly costs—from dairy-free butter to vegan turkey roasts—so swapping substances is a snap.
PETA’s ThanksVegan information will enable you cook dinner the meal of your life for the following vacation and lots of extra to come back—whether or not you’re internet hosting, touring, or hunkering down at house for a small-scale feast, we’ve obtained you coated.