The Palisadian-Post has partnered with locally founded environmental nonprofit Resilient Palisades to deliver a weekly “green tip” to our readers. This week’s tip was written by Aleksandar Pavlović.
Every year on November 1, World Vegan Day is celebrated globally. It’s a day that celebrates the benefits of a plant-based diet and all things vegan.
But why stop after just one day when there are so many benefits to going vegan? After all, farming and food account for about one-third of global greenhouse gas production at present, according to a report in The Guardian.
A plant-based diet is also beneficial to our health and the well being of animals. It’s unequivocally a win-win-win.
With the impact that food production has on the environment, it’s getting harder to ignore the significant source of carbon emissions from every Thanksgiving. A single turkey emits 24 pounds of CO2, compared to the average car, which emits 0.9 pounds of CO2 per mile driven, The Environmental Working Group reported.
What better way to celebrate World Vegan Month than eating green this Thanksgiving with some plant-based alternatives? Instead of turkey, vegans enjoy meat-free turkey called Tofurkey, made with a blend of wheat protein and organic tofu. You can also try Gardein Plant-Based Turk’y Roast. Dive online for “vegan Thanksgiving recipes” for a flurry of other delicious ideas.
The majority of the scrumptious Thanksgiving foods are actually naturally vegan and don’t need replacements—like cranberries, green beans, succotash, sauerkraut, mushroom gravy, sweet potato and baguettes—so we all need to focus on the turkey and any other animal-based dishes.
Unrelated to Thanksgiving but very much to plant-based diets, come join Resilient Palisades at Palisades Recreation Center on Saturday, November 13, for our third and largest Pali Veg Fest, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Learn more about veganism at resilientpalisades.org/plant-based-solutions.
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