What Do I Want for My Birthday This Year?

A turkey from Farm Sanctuary, what else would you have guessed?

One of the beauties I met when visiting their Watkins Glen, New York sanctuary. Flashback.


With my November birthday coming up, I asked my family to adopt a turkey in my name again this year. I still have Serendipity's cheerful face on my fridge from last year.

For a one-time adoption fee of $25, you too can sponsor a turkey for yourself or your loved ones as part of their annual Adopt-A-Turkey program. Learn more. This is a wonderful way to raise not only critical funds for the turkeys that live at their two sanctuaries, but also awareness about the 45 million turkeys that are needlessly slaughtered for Thanksgiving each year in the U.S.

Start a humane tradition of your own by cooking compassionate food for yourself and others. Corn soup, wine-glazed root vegetables, apple crisp, vegan pumpkin pie and more. Yes please! Find the cruelty-free recipes here.


Friends don't let friends eat turkeys at Thanksgiving!" declares Bubbles, a resident at Watkins Glen. Well-said, Bubbles!

Farm Sanctuary's Adopt-A-Turkey Project

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I can't think of a better way to honor the 45 million turkeys who sacrifice their lives every Thanksgiving than by participating in Farm Sanctuary's Adopt-A-Turkey Project. For a $25 adoption fee, you will receive:

* A special Adopt-A-Turkey certificate with color photo of and fun details about your new friend
* A Farm Sanctuary membership for one year
* A one-year subscription to Sanctuary, a quarterly newsletter

Learn more about the project.

I had the pleasure of visiting the Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, NY (they also have a farm in California). More about my visit in a future post. If you haven't already, read "Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds about Animals and Food," written by Gene Baur, the organization's President and Co-founder. It should be available at many local libraries, as it was at mine.

Here's two beauties from the Watkins Glen shelter.