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How To Have An Eco-Friendly Thanksgiving.

The Golden Gate Meat Company in San Francisco is one popular place this time of year as customer flock to buy specialty turkeys.

Dean Offenbach with Golden Gate explains, "We do the Heritage. We do the Heirloom. We do the organic and we do the natural free range. All of them are great."

But they're also expensive.  Seventy dollars for a small Heritage turkey.

Reenita Malhotra is a Lifestyle Editor at Sustainlane.com."They're not cheap, but it's well worth it both in the terms of taste and actual meal, and also just in terms of the animal, thinking about the way it was raised."

Sustainlane.com is a web guid to sustainable living.  She understands not everyone can afford a green turky, but she does recommend buying organic produce."There's an entire list of fruits and vegetables listed in the organic world classified as the dirty dozen. That list includes things like potatoes, apples, celery, spinach."

But when it comes to your Thanksgiving wine, the labels can be confusing.  So, it's a good idea to make friends with your local wine store.

"So you can farm organically and label the wine organic if you're certified or you can farm organically and not have certification and then you can't say it anywhere," says Peter Granoff, Wine Merchant.

If you do splurge on an organic Thanksgiving feast, you can cut costs on your table decorations by just walking outside. Malhotra says, "You can come up with twigs, green, acorns."
Other suggestions for a "green" Thanksgiving include carpooling to dinner and composting your food garbage instead of tossing it in the trash.

Published Tuesday, November 25, 2008 6:13 PM by Jill Jensen

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