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8 Better-Than-Turkey Thanksgiving Entrees — Plus Two Guilt-Free Birds (Slideshow)

Photo: Flying Colours Ltd/Getty Images If the centerpiece of your Thanksgiving dinner has always been a majestic stuffed bird, then it might be time to turn toward more sustainable options — like vegetarian entrees, stunning squash, rich pastas, and juicy sustainable salmon. And if your family isn’t quite ready to give up the turkey entirely, then choose an ethical bird…or shoot your own.

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Weekday Vegetarian: 9 Thanksgiving Recipes, Tried and Tasted

Photo: TreeHugger Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and this is one holiday where food is king, queen, court…well you get the point. TreeHugger writer Kelly Rossiter has whipped up (and sampled!) nine delicious vegetarian recipes — so you can pack your menu full of tasty delights and give your guests a Thanksgiving feast to remember. You’ll see options for vegetarians, vegans, and just plain foodies — and the remaining recipes will launch throughout the week, so check bac… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Weekday Vegetarian Thanksgiving: Spicy Cheese Biscuits

Photo: Kelly Rossiter I don’t normally serve bread or biscuits with dinner, but our vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner — this is one of nine recipes — was going to have sauces and gravy and no mashed potatoes to catch all that good stuff, so biscuits seemed like a great idea. I could have made plain butter biscuits , or sweet potato bi… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Weekday Vegetarian: More Thanksgiving Fare

Photo: Kelly Rossiter There were a couple of reasons I chose to add a tagine to my menu for my Thanksgiving dinner party . It cooked for a couple of hours on top of the stove so we got it started early and then ignored it. I had other things going into the oven, and the tagine didn’t take up any valuable oven time. There are lots of vegetables involved, so every mouthful is a little different from the last and I thought it would be a good companion to the other things on the plate. But really, I love my

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Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs Widespread on British Farms

photo: Sara Novak At first these salmonella and e coli superbugs were found at a handful of British farms, but according to the Soil Association , the nearly untreatable superbugs are running rampant across the country. Find out what’s causing the frightening outbreak…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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US $50 Million Pledge For Cleaner Cookstoves is Big Win For Women, Forests & Climate

photo: Procsilas Moscas via flickr Today Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to announce a $50 million pledge of seed money, distributed over five years, to help the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves provide 100 million clean-burning biomass cookstoves by 2020 to people in Africa, Asia and South America… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Americans Reject Frankenfish

Photo credit jlastras via flickr. If you’ve been following AquaBounty ‘s attempt to get Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its AquAdvantage genetically engineered salmon (the salmon has extra genes from Chinook salmon and an eel-like species called the ocean pout to make it grow much faster than normal) you might already know that FDA has given preliminary approval and is weighing final approval in two day of hearings. What you might not know is that a strong majority of Americans surveyed by the environmen… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What To Do With Unused Pills? Give Them To The DEA This Saturday

photo via stoptherobbery.com Recently, I found out I am allergic to penicillin. I’ve taken penicillin for over two decades, when prescribed, but my allergic reaction only manifested this week. So now I have what is a common conundrum: a bottle full of useless (to me) pills sitting in my medicine cabinet. I’ve been wondering what to do with them. TreeHugger’s Jaymi Heimbuch wrote about this problem with her aunt’s unused medication back in the spring. Due to regulations, pill… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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John Friend: A Business-Yogi & Brand Guru

Me and the clean-cut Anusara master, John Friend. It was just another ordinary day, chatting with John Friend , Anusara yoga founder, over tea and lemonade at a café in Union Square, NYC…OK, not really. It was the kind of afternoon a yoga studio owner, practitioner and instructor like me only dreams of. The celeb Hatha yogi happened to be in town, reached out to TreeHugger (Bonnie, too, chatted with him at Wanderlust ),… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Changing the Face of Hospital Food in Virginia

photo: Sara Novak When I saw this story I couldn’t help the huge grin that appeared on my face. I was born and raised in Charlottesville, Va so a story such as this in my small hometown lightens my heart. While hospital food certainly has a bad reputation, and in many cases, it’s deserved, the University Health System at the University of Virginia is taking steps to change all that thanks to Local Food Hub …. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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