Thanksgiving // Current TV

Vegan Awarenss Month: Thanksgiving A Gut Check For This Vegan

I survived my first Thanksgiving as a vegan, but not without some guilt-inducing... more

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PHOTOS: Gwen Stefani & Gavin Rossdale Family Thanksgiving

Rocker mama Gwen Stefani, her husband Gavin Rossdale and their super cute boys,... more

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Kim Kardashian & Jennifer Love Hewitt Feed The Homeless For Thanksgiving

Newly single girls, Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Love Hewitt, took some time off their... more

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A Thanksgiving Gift - Rev Al's Turkey Tips

I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving in spite of the hard times so many of us... more

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November 24, 1954 - A Curious Sense Of Calm.

Calm in the time of Cold War.

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Bachmann For Dinner

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Happy Thanksgiving: Eat, Fry, Love

William Shatner on the dangers of Thanksgiving dinner. BEWARE!

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Happy Thanksgiving

And for those racing to get their hands on Black Friday specials... Don't leave... more

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Turkeys Will Rise

The turkeys are the 1%.

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The History of Thanksgiving

Today is Thanksgiving, the day when we eat way too much, drink way too much and we all... more

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Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Thursday

giants among Macy’s NYC parade balloons Truce quiets Cairo streets, army... more

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Giving Thanks

I am preparing myself for the usual onslaught of food tomorrow. I am trying to talk... more

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Turkey Day 2011

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No secret farm bill and other things to be thankful for

Mark Bittman has provided the ultimate Thanksgiving guide for anyone interested in making our broken food system work again. His exhaustive list of the 25 people or groups for which he is most thankful is a must-read.* It starts with nutritionist and food system reform pioneer Marion Nestle and ends with "anyone who's started a small farm in the last five years, and anyone who's supported one; anyone who cooks, and especially anyone who teaches others to cook." That covers a good portion of Grist readers, I'd like to point out. So good on all of you, too. Heaven knows, I'm thankful for you.

In the glass-half-full spirit, I thought I'd take a moment to point out some recent news developments for which we should also all be thankful.

The collapse of the deficit supercommittee

There are, no doubt, many reasons to be thankful for this. After all, we can cut our national debt by $7.1 trillion by doing absolutely nothing, so it's not clear why we need a bunch of old men sitting in a room to come up with ways to cut less by performing all sorts of budgeting gymnastics. But, more to the point, it also follows that no deal in the supercommittee means no Secret Farm Bill. Or at least it means that reformers might still get a chance to weigh in on farm policy, in hopes of moving it away from large, wealthy corporate farms and towards farms who need and better deserve the support.

The Secret Farm Bill, which is no longer a secret thanks to the Environmental Working Group, won't be entirely scrapped, I'm afraid. But at least it will probably move back to the more open House and Senate Committee process and will likely require a standalone vote from the full Congress. That fact alone may turn back the most egregious elements of Big Ag's attempted raid on the treasury. A more public process may ensure that such brilliant maneuvers as cutting the subsidy criteria from $1 million all the way down to $950,000 might be seen as the accounting tricks they truly are. That eligibility cut was admittedly a fiendishly clever move on the part of farm state representatives. After all, "No farm subsidies to nine-hundred-fifty-thousandaires" doesn't have quite the ring that "No farm subsidies to millionaires" does.

Marion Nestle does a nice job of summarizing the contents of the Secret Farm Bill, which will likely form the basis of the 2012 Farm Bill, warts and all. At least reformers know what they're up against.

More at the linkMark Bittman has provided the ultimate Thanksgiving guide for anyone interested in... more