Thanksgiving With the 0.5 Percent

How to prepare Thanksgiving for the oddest of dinner guests—the vegan.

If you’re like 97 percent of the country, chances are that your main meal this Thursday will include turkey—or beef, pork, ham, chicken, fish or some other kind of meat. For the remaining 3 percent of Americans, there won’t be any meat on the Thanksgiving dinner plate—they’re vegetarian (according to a 2008 study published by the Vegetarian Times). Maybe they’ll have spinach soufflé, four-cheese lasagna, cream of mushroom soup and pumpkin pie à la mode. But, for 0.5 percent of the country, even these vegetarian delicacies will be out, because this group is vegan. (Or perhaps meat- and lactose-intolerant.) Those poor vegans, consigned to a life of barley and turnips, dandelion greens and fungi, all washed down with lashings of hot patchouli…

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