Vegan Guide To Thanksgiving | Recipes, Relatives & Reality

Thanksgiving can be intimidating for new and existing vegans. Leave it to this guide to help you navigate a Vegan Thanksgiving like a pro! Now that's something to be thankful for!

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With food being such a cornerstone of our social interactions and traditions, holidays—and Thanksgiving in particular—can be very intimidating for new and existing vegans. How is a vegan to handle a holiday so loaded with (potential) landmines? This video helps you navigate Thanksgiving like a pro—from "surviving" your non-vegan family to dropping "fun fact" historical truth bombs at the table to even educating effectively about the ethics of exploitation. Now that's something to be thankful for!

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:20 Go Back To The Beginning: The Very First Thanksgiving
02:26 What To Eat Now? Recipe Roundup to the Rescue!
03:11 How to Help Friends & Family "Make the Connection"
04:20 Share Truth Through Trivia: Presidential Turkey Pardons
05:18 Remember the Individuals & Share Their Truth
06:14 Stay Vegan During the Holiday With This Survival Guide!
07:22 In Closing...

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[whatsgoodberto]

I went vegan almost 5 years ago and my mom became vegetarian due to me going vegan. Initially she stopped celebrating “Thanksgiving” due to the origins and possibly not knowing what to cook. Now she makes vegan food for “Thanksgiving”. Thank you for sharing. This is so necessary.

[Jaytraveler]

Hello Emily, and welcome back! 👏🏿So exciting, you're an inspiration to new vegans, thank you.

[elizabethhughes]

Yes!!! This is how you make an entrance. This is the video we need <3

[laurenmichelle]

Thinking about you Emily! Hope you're well, appreciating all your contribution to animal lives and also how your message still resonates in my core to this day and always will. Much love <3

[ewazuzanna]

I'm glad that you are back! :) To me you were and you are one of the most inspirational people from the vegan community on YouTube, thank you for your work! I've been vegan for over 15 months now :)

[loriwilliams]

I so appreciate your support and encouragement. This is my first Thanksgiving as a vegan and it's already difficult dealing with family. Your videos are so helpful and enjoy your sense of humour 🦃❤

[MunsterBoarders]

My siblings and I have a cooking competition every thanksgiving, I have won the past three years with vegan food. I am defending my title this year with vegan quiche and basil pesto.

[indigodragon]

My family is making stuffed acorn squash and giant mushroom caps. I’m also hoping we can get some canned jackfruit and make stuffed cabbage. My dad is almost vegan (he is having issues giving up seafood), and my mom is plant based (still eats animal products on occasion). I’m the only actual vegan lol but we make vegan thanksgiving meals to encourage ourselves to eat plant based as often as possible.

[oisinmaccumhaill]

Please come back to us, Emily. The world needs you now more than ever.

[Haltijanainen]

Missed your videos so much! Welcome back!

[tripelogdarkness]

I will play this video on thanksgiving for my family while they eat !

[SincerelyShireen]

Great video as always Emily. Thank you for speaking about the true origin of "Thanksgiving". I never "celebrated" it because of that and I'm so happy to be Vegan and not be part of the other autracity of this so-called holiday. 💚

[sikeedelic]

So grateful for your hard work, Emily!!

[artzfartzveganlife]

It's been over a year and I Still think about You and You're influential videos . Hope to see a new one in the future. take care you're an amazing person.

[shellrock]

You are amazing Emily. Your content and delivery is unrivalled.xxx. Edit 2021, we miss you Emily.xx

[kristinLB]

My mind finally broke through the unconscious denial of the connection of actual living beings and what was on my plate. I went full vegan over night 3 months ago. It is the best decision I have ever made in my soul. Its the little part I can do. I can’t watch 1 second of slaughterhouse footage. Even what you showed here instantly brought me to tears. I don’t know how to help the animals other than be vegan and donate, and love my own animals with all I’ve got.

[betsysmith]

You commented about the first Thanksgiving, I just wanted to add some info on that. I'm from Germany, we also have Thanksgiving, it's much older than U.S. history. It's called Erntedankfest and has every similarity to the one celebrated in other places, except with a more religious undertone. It's a celebration to be thankful for the bountiful harvest. I'm afraid you've all been lied to about Thanksgiving. It's a pre-Christian Roman holiday, interestingly enough, formalised in Germany by Adolph Hitler. (Thanks Wikipedia!)

[jennystone]

EASA: Educational Activism Sneak Attack 😎 

You rock <3

[thebraininsideahead]

thanks for uploading it is appreciated peace and love.

[erinbrooks]

I’m so glad she’s back!!! I feel like it doesn’t make sense to give thanks while treating turkeys like that