What is Gentle Thanksgiving Org.?

Gentle Thanksgiving is an opportunity each year to encourage friends, family and neighbors to adopt compassionate alternatives to cruel turkey dinners. Caring people across the country will screen videos, distribute information, and, most importantly, host free vegan meals.

What is a Party for a Cause?

This is a party or event to collect donations for a good cause. Often people want to support a cause by getting their friends and acquaintances together to donate funds for a cause now it is easy with free online services such as Eco-Friendly Party™.

You can also choose to Party for a Cause at birthday celebrations or special occasions as Weddings or Baby showers. You will select a cause you believe in and ask for donations instead of gifts. You will decide how much to donate and how much you need to buy a meaningful gift for the person that is being celebrated.

Why Participate?

For the Turkeys. Abusing and killing an innocent bird betrays the life-affirming spirit of giving thanks for our life, health, and happiness.

The nearly 300 million turkeys killed each year in the U.S. spend their entire lives crammed in large sheds with little room to move. Artificially inseminated and selectively bred to gain enormous amounts of weight, they suffer heart attacks, broken limbs, lameness, and death from their genetically-induced accelerated growth rate.

MOVING AWAY FROM MEAT

More than 30 million Americans have explored meatless eating, and nearly one third purchase mock-meat products regularly. One in three teens thinks that being vegetarian is “cool.”

California and Hawaii legislatures have recommended that schools offer a daily vegetarian lunch option, and other states are considering similar resolutions.

Mainstream health advocacy groups, like the American Dietetic Association, American Cancer Society, and National Cancer Institute are touting plant-based diets.

Major food manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, including ConAgra, Kraft, Kellogg, SYSCO, Burger King, and McDonald’s, are marketing vegetarian meals.

Supermarket chains carry a large selection of mock lunch meats, veggie burgers and dogs, and ready-to-eat meals containing these items.

You can keep up with the times and start on the path to plant-based eating this Thanksgiving. Click here to find out how.

Factory farm conditions are so harsh that the turkeys must be pumped full of antibiotics just to stay alive. Shortly after birth, they have their snoods and parts of their toes and beaks cut off with hot blades, without the use of anesthetic, to reduce damage from from stress-induced aggression. They are then delivered by conveyer belt to a carousel where they get a power injection, usually of an antibiotic, whacked into the back of their necks.

How to Support Gentle Thanksgiving ?

At Eco-Friendly Party™ we have a great way to support this effort. You can use Eco-Friendly Party™’s  free Party for a Cause service by visiting our Party For a Cause web page and asking your guests to donate to this cause while inviting them to your Gentle Thanksgiving Party.

Thank you