Episode 11: Celebrating a Turkey-Free Table, with Main Street Vegan's Victoria Moran

Progressive Kitch

What are you thankful for? We're thankful for the opportunity to visit with Victoria Moran, vegan lifestyle coach, radio host, and author of Main Street Vegan -- and we're also extra-super-thankful that our Thanksgiving table won't feature any dead birds! Like Halloween, Thanksgiving poses special navigational challenges to plant-eaters. We sort right through the holiday's ambiguous history, the nature of tradition invention, and the fine art of dealing constructively with friends and family members who can't imagine a turkey-free Thanksgiving table. Listen!

Your Episode 11 Reference Link Library

• Nation's Top Airports Offer More Plant-Based Meals
• Fran Costigan, author of Vegan Chocolate: Unapologetically Luscious and Decadent Dairy-Free Desserts
• "Vegan Chocolate," With Chef Fran Costigan
• Main Street Vegan with Victoria Moran, on Unity FM Radio

If you're approaching Thanksgiving for the first time from a vegan or vegetarian perspective, the nature of tradition construction and defense deserves reflection.

• Progressive Kitch, Episode 6 -- Anti-Veg Myths: Debunkery and Social Navigation
• Turkeys, Marketing, and Thanksgiving Tradition Invention
• Vegan Thanksgiving: Celebrating a Turkey-Free Table
• Eating Vegan: Responding Constructively to Anti-Veg Myths

Once you've got Thanksgiving sussed out, by the way, swing by EatDrinkBetter and check out my new series Top News from the Food Front, for a weekly roundup of stories that deserve attention from conscious eaters. It publishes each Saturday -- watch for it!

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Check out Victoria's shenanigans at Main Street Vegan! Whether you're looking for a great book, a radio show, or a vegan lifestyle coach training program, you'll find something amazing there.

Recommended viewing:

• The Ghosts in our Machine
• Blackfish

Also be sure to join the Facebook group Thoughtful Thanksgiving, for some wonderful vegan feast ideas! This group is brought to you by friend of the show Marla Rose, who also created the very fabulous Humane Halloween event last month.

Thankfulness!

Thanks to Victoria Moran for serving as co-host for this PK episode! Thanks to all of you for listening, and for sharing, and for rating Progressive Kitch on iTunes so that other conscious eaters can find us. Look for us on Facebook and Twitter, and we'll see you there!

Thanks for all you do to build a better world, by embracing traditions that reflect your values of compassion and nonviolence.

Happy (Vegan) Thanksgiving!

Image credit: cornucopia photo via Shutterstock. Music credit: Hot Swing by Kevin MacLeod, via Incompetech.