WATCH: Martha Stewart’s Vegetarian Thanksgiving Spectacular
Filed under: Featured, animals, food & drink — Michael d'Estries @ 1:37 pm
November 24th 2009
While most cooking shows would scoff at the thought of producing a Thanksgiving special without meat, Martha Stewart has proved once again why she’s a pioneer in the kitchen. Having someone with as much sway as the famous host show people that the big feast doesn’t have to include meat to be successful is huge. Even better, she took the opportunity to educate her audience on the factory farming industry — with help from author Jonathan Safran Foer (of “Eating Animals”) and filmmaker Robert Kenner (Food, INC.)
Said Foer of his experience on the show, which aired last Thursday: “I couldn’t possibly have been more impressed by how Martha handled things,” he told Vegan.com. “Firstly, to devote an entire show to the horrors of the meat industry without feeling a need to offer the industry a voice. Secondly, she came right out and said the meat industry is bad. She didn’t mince her words. She wasn’t cagey or indirect. She spoke plainly and openly about the secrecy, about how they went after Oprah, about how they torture animals (her words), about how she’s going to have a vegetarian Thanksgiving. She told her audience, ‘You’ll probably agree with just about all of the conclusions in Jonathan’s book.’ Frankly, she came off as further down the spectrum than I did.”
We can’t embed the full video from Martha’s Thanksgiving show here — but her official website now has all the clips online. Included are recipes for Celery Root Stuffing, Brussel Sprouts side dish, and Foer’s Vegetable Orzo Casserole. Delicious!
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Good for Martha Stewart! First she narrated an anti-fur video and now this!
Loser.
That is a Lie. Tim you are projecting.
this is great. I loved watching Martha cook vegetarian. It shows more and more people are finally realizing that we need more options out there for vegetarians besides just a bowl of raw veggies.
For more encouragement to have a vegetarian holiday, you should read a gobbler’s plea to God or “A Turkey’s Thanksgiving Prayer.” A funny, short post on Ethic Soup blog, it has a hilarious photo of a turkey’s tombstone at the end of the post:
http://www.ethicsoup.com/2009/11/a-turkeys-thanksgiving-prayer.html
This is a great step and i am happy to see her FINALLY cook something that isn’t dead.
I think it is totally ironic though, that she is having a veg thanksgiving….but branded a line of turkeys this year >.>
But this is still a good thing
Why stop with this felon? Why not interview the entire penetentiary? Who cares what a criminal liberal (sorry for the redundancy) thinks about anything? She’s a piece of garbage.
My goodness, Tim. So much anger. Perhaps eating a less violent diet will help mellow you out.
You should just die. You’re too goddamn stupid to handle.
Tim, you have issues regarding your own self worth. Stop spewing/projecting. Nobody wants to read nonproductive spew.
lame! started well but then the farmer guy is ridiculous and selling happy meat! Lame!
I loved this Martha Stewart Veg Thanksgiving. She was great. Thanks for sharing this, I watched the whole show.