Encouraging meat-free meals once a week
- Sign up for Tofurky Tuesdays
- Watch our Tofurkymobile - fueled by meatless meals
- Get the facts on eating meat-free
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Turtle Island Foods, in partnership with the Humane Society of the United States, wants to help you reduce the amount of meat you eat each week. It’s easy! Just sign–up for Tofurky Tuesdays and we’ll send you the Tofurky Tuesday Care Package. It includes:
- Complimentary magazines* from Vegetarian Resource Group, Vegetarian Times and VegNews.
- Educational materials on vegetarian nutrition and factory farming information (sent via email).
*Magazines can only be sent to US addresses.
 Tofurky Road Trip!
July 9, 2008 to Decemeber 1, 2008
We calculated the amount of green house gas emissions reduced by going meatless just one day a week is equal to the amount released when you drive a car that averages 20 mpg 16.5 miles.
As of December 1, 2008, for each individual who registered for Tofurky Tuesdays we moved our tricked out “Tofurkymobile” 16.5 miles on a virtual trip around the world. View our journey... In the end, we travel around the world two times, fueled entirely by meatless pledges, for a total of 69,564 miles (or 4,216 pledges).
While the Tofurkymobile is parked for now, we will continue to track the number of Tofurky Tuesdays Care Packages sent out and show the potential energy saved.
Why eat meat-free once a week?
 Reducing the amount of meat you eat daily has many positive personal and environmental results. Here’s how:
• If you reduce your meat consumption by only 20% (only 6 meatless days a month!) the energy saved will be equivalent to that saved when you switch from driving a sedan car to a hybrid vehicle.
• 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions are a direct result of meat production.
• It takes 16 pounds of grain and soy to produce one pound of beef and only eight ounces of soybeans are needed to make one pound of tempeh.
• We know that meat consumption is on the rise globally, especially among China’s 1.3 billion citizens who are changing from a plant-based diet to a more meat-centered diet.
But How?
Personal choice is the biggest asset we have in our attempt to change our planetary carbon footprint.
Choices can be major such as buying a new energy efficient car or less daunting like deciding what you choose to eat at each meal. The Meat of the Matter is that your dietary choices are actually environmental choices. We are heartened that so many have joined us on our journey!
Reducing your meat intake by going “meatless” one day a week is not as daunting as you might think. Turtle Island Food’s signature Tofurky® and Tempeh products are just one way to approach “going meatless” and still eat satisfying meals. You can make a bean burrito for dinner, have a pasta salad with grilled veggies, or prepare an endless number of dishes using vegetables or soy-based meat alternatives. A simple way to start is to look at what you normally prepare and design a way to make that dish meat-free.
If you want to go meatless once a week, please sign up to receive a Tofurky Tuesdays Care Package.
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