Comments on: Say No to Fake Plastic Wishbones & Other Thanksgiving Waste

By: Dawn

Dawn — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:09:19 +0000

My husband and I have been thinking of inviting our families to our house this year for the holidays so that no one is offended with not seeing the new baby and you just gave me the idea for how we can deal with the simplicity issue. We only have 8 plates, 3 glasses that aren’t plastic or coffe cups (though we also have 5 other plastic cups), and an assortment of silverware. We also don’t have enough seats. So why not make it truely potluck (since my dad makes the best turkey and my mom-in-law makes the best mac salad) and have everyone bring their own dishes, chairs, and take home containers? :) We have enough for 8 people mismatched but why do that when everyone can be mismatched! Sides, I fidn that our tableware tends to have stories.

By: November's Stupid Plastic Crap - Go Green - SustainLane

November's Stupid Plastic Crap - Go Green - SustainLane — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:02:03 +0000

[...] first birthday! Last November I wrote about the Lucky Break Wishbone that I first read about in Fake Plastic Fish. By the way, those faux wishbones are back in stores again this year. The first month I called the [...]

By: jennconspiracy

jennconspiracy — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:23:58 +0000

Just say “no” to celebrating big commercial holidays. Make your own holidays – treat your friends to dinners when there is no “thanksgiving” – you should celebrate it more often than once a year anyway. Tomorrow, I’m going to figure out where to go camping and will hop on the motorcycle and spend the afternoon picking out a camping spot. Maybe I’ll eat persimmon cookies for two days but I won’t have to hear any farking xmas music. The cats will be perfectly happy to eat out of open buckets for two days. :)
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By: Raising the environmental footprint of veganism… « Vegans of Color

Raising the environmental footprint of veganism… « Vegans of Color — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:06:12 +0000

[...] johanna @ 4:05 pm Tags: environment, environmentalism, PETA, thanksgiving Fake Plastic Fish reports that PETA is promoting plastic wishbones for [...]

By: rObrak

rObrak — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:46:12 +0000

Yeah, I like the idea of choosing reusable food container rather than using plastic bags because like you’ve said, plastic can harm wildlife and are not biodegradable, that contains toxic chemicals. When it comes to food, we should be more practical. We should become smart. Using the alternative container which is the stainless steel container. Study shows that it is totally safe, and more suggested to use because it doesn’t have any harmful chemicals like plastics have. Other types of these food storage are expensive but I know another steel container that is very affordable. By using this steel container you can even save more. It is durable, flexible, portable, dishwasher safe, eco-friendly and trendy. Happy Tiffin (http://www.happytiffin.com) offers these cool stainless steel tiffin carriers which are really reusable. Perfect for gift giving ideas.

By: Rejin L

Rejin L — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:14:54 +0000

PETA, PETA, PETA, you’ve done it again.
I just read that Wishbone Contest post and clearly most of the commenters are thinking only of pets and livestock when they refer to animals. Because in the wild, all animals can’t be “safe” and “loved and cared for by their humans.” It just reveals a very anthropocentric view of the world which is really at the root of the problem of animal cruelty.

As commenter Mary says, “Animals deserve their habitats back!” but those habitats should be free of our useless plastic crap.

By: Rosa

Rosa — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:16:07 +0000

Beth, you’re in my brain making me do better, these days.

We aren’t in charge of Thanksgiving and we have to travel for it – but i’m finally making the effort to make my own granola bars for the trip. We’re good about packing food so we don’t have to stop somewhere for lunch but the number of plastic granola bar wrappers we generate has really been bugging me.

By: Eleanor

Eleanor — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:43:01 +0000

Hi Beth,

Another inspiring post, thank you!

I purposefully cook my birds upside down after accidentally doing it once and a kind guest pointing out that gravity helped enhance the flavor :D When you cook poultry upside down, all the juices drip down to… where the meat is. Seriously, gravity is your friend. When you cook the bird right side up, all those lovely juices drain down to where there is no meat. Whether I’ve taken a polite compliment too seriously or not, it doesn’t seem to hurt anything. Though the skin isn’t as crispy on the “top” of the bird, but I give it to the raccoons anyway.

By: monkeyjen

monkeyjen — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:54 +0000

Beth – I cooked a chicked upside down – don’t feel bad. Those durn poultry are confoosing. Anyways, you don’t have to bring anything except takeaway containers to dinner. You know I have the dinnerware, straws and the napkins down. Lighten ur load :)

By: Lara S.

Lara S. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:22:56 +0000

This is one of the times when I get surprised about the huge amount of crappy inventions that haven’t (yet?) arrived to Argentina: Oven bags?? Giblets bags?? Plastic wishbones?? Tofurkey?!? I had to look a few of them up in Google because I couldn’t get the meaning of them. The idea of oven bags is specially disturbing to me. My mom used to wrap chickens in brown paper to cook them in the oven (back when we ate meat), and it worked great.
Anyway, talking about holiday trash, I’ve been collecting pinecones and other natural things to make Christmas ornaments to give as presents, to avoid buying useless stuff. I just hope I have enough time!!