For Immediate Release:
November 9, 2022
Contact:
Nicole Meyer 202-483-7382
Norfolk, Va.— With more individuals than ever anticipated to commemorate a meat-free Thanksgiving this year, PETA is offering 10 restaurants across the country something to extol with its inaugural Vegan Roast Boast Awards, honoring the most succulent options to 2022’s skyrocketing turkey costs and widespread bird influenza break outs.
On the East Coast, in Guilford, Connecticut, 3 Ladies Vegan Creamery, owned by a mom and her 2 children, won for its Vegan Vacation Roast dressed with mushroom gravy and filled with apple, “sausage,” and herb stuffing. In New york city, the Thanksgiving Banquet from Binghamton’s Parlor City Vegan consists of a shaved juicy roasted vegan turkey; Rochester’s Yard Fed is dishing up a roast with mushroom, fennel, and leek stuffing; and Brooklyn’s Monk’s Meats is providing a 5-pound roast with chestnut fennel stuffing, covered in a yuba skin, rubbed with sage butter, and smoked over hickory wood.
Love Again Resident in West Chester, Pennsylvania, won for its Stuffed Vacation Roast– ideal for serving with a generous glug of gravy– and The Herbivorous Butcher in Minneapolis has alternatives for any size event, with sage-seasoned roasts readily available in 1-, 2-, and 2.5-pound ranges. In Tempe, the Seitan Turkey Breast with “Giblet” Gravy takes spotlight in Green New American Vegetarian‘s “ThanksLIVING” meals, and in Tucson, Arizona, Lovin’ Spoonfuls‘ cashew Nut Loaf– served with garlic mashed potatoes and mushroom gravy– is readily available on its everyday supper menu. In California, The Butcher’s Kid in Berkeley got an area on the list for its crispy-skinned roast and Planted Table in Oakland is dishing up a roast basted with apple cider that’s accompanied by roasted apples, carrots, and celery.
” These juicy roasts provide all the soothing vacation tastes we anticipate, with none of the ruthlessness to turkeys or cholesterol,” states PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “This ‘ThanksVegan,’ PETA is commemorating regional companies that make it simple as dairy-free pumpkin pie to delight in a bird-friendly banquet.”
Not just are vegan roasts devoid of saturated animal fat and cholesterol, they likewise extra animals enormous suffering: More than 45 million turkeys will be killed for this Thanksgiving alone. Throughout their brief lives, they’re required to stand in their own waste and breathe in ammonia-laden air inside dark storage facilities. They’re even pumped loaded with prescription antibiotics to make them grow unnaturally big, which triggers their legs to break below them.
PETA– whose slogan checks out, in part, that “animals are not ours to consume” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview– uses a “ThanksVegan” guide loaded with dishes, going shopping pointers, and more. For additional information, please check out PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram
