pls i know you're out there 😭 😂

You don’t have to follow a script written by industry. Build new traditions rooted in community care, land respect + liberation for animals + people. 🌱🐉✨

Solutions are real + accessible: plant-based mains cut emissions by 50–90%, reduce water use drastically, and avoid the suffering baked into factory farming. Local + seasonal veggies help too! 💚

Also: neither turkey nor ham is "ancient tradition." Both surged in popularity due to 20th century marketing + industrial ag scaling. Corporations shaped the holidays, not culture.

In the US, most hog facilities sit near poor, black, or indigenous communities. Waste lagoons leak + cause respiratory issues. It’s environmental racism baked into holiday "tradition."

If reading this made you feel bad, please know that wasn't my intention. It's to bring awareness. And if being aware made you feel bad, then it's on you to take up change in yourself. Do what you can, own who you are, but don't place feeling bad about your choices on me. ✌️

A vegan Thanksgiving saves water, land, emissions, and lives. It reduces waste, cuts pollution, and aligns the holiday with the gratitude we say we feel! If you're thankful then please extend that thankfulness to animals, the planet, and future generations. :)

We're told this is "tradition."
But compassion can be tradition too.
Sustainability can be tradition.
A holiday built on gratitude should not rely on needless suffering, massive waste, or environmental harm.

A typical turkey dinner creates CO2 emissions equal to driving a car 70+ miles. Add refrigeration, trucking, gas-powered farm equipment, slaughterhouse energy, packaging... and the clime footprint climbs even higher.

The water used growing food we toss? Over 105 BILLION gallons. Enough for a weeks worth of showers for EVERY person in America. All that water -> straight to methane-leaking landfills.

Wait! The kicker: 316 million pounds of Thanksgiving food gets wasted every year.

That includes the equivalent of 8.2 million whole turkeys thrown straight into the trash. Millions of animals raised and killed just to be landfill.

All of those turkeys need land, feed, pesticides, transport, slaughter facilities... and the waste runoff pollutes waterways, destroys habitats, and fuels algae blooms. Factory farming is an ecological disaster that we've normalized.

It's not just lives lost, it's resources. It takes around 491 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of turkey. Multiply that by millions of birds, and we're draining rivers and aquifers for a single meal.