Celebrate Turkeys at Animal Place's Thank the Turkeys Party! - SOLD OUT!

Event Details:

When: Saturday, November 17th, 2012

Time: 11:00-5:00 pm

11:00-1:00 pm - Barns Open

1:00-2:00 pm - Feeding of the Turkeys

2:00-3:30 pm - Feeding of the Humans

4:00-5:00 pm - Jonathan Balcombe Speaking and Signing Books

Location: Animal Place

17314 McCourtney Road

Grass Valley, CA 95949

Price: $55/person

Space is limited, register soon!

GOBBLE UP YOUR TICKETS HERE - TICKETS SOLD OUT!

Food provided by: Local Love Catering

Menu:

Appetizer: Pecan Mousse with baked Sweet Potato Chips
Entrees: Nut Encrusted Tofu & Seasonal Vegetable Tempeh Loaf served either with fresh cranberry sauce or mushroom gravy

Sides: Garlic and Rosemary Sweet Potatoes & Seasonal Roasted Vegetables (including beets from Animal Place's vegan farm)

Vegan Pumpkin Spice cookies generously donated by Allison's Gourmet

Ticket includes a pumpkin or sweet potato pie for the turkeys, (for Feeding the Turkeys time), time with the animals, a delicious vegan meal, and Jonathan Balcombe's speech! You can also purchase a copy of Jonathan Balcombe's book Second Nature - sales benefit Animal Place directly.

Below are some of the turkeys you will get to meet! There are sixteen turkeys at Animal Place, all with unique stories and incredible personalities. You'll meet The Boys - Dakota, Seneca, Miwok, Cheyenne, and Creek - all saved from Thanksgiving slaughter. They've been de-beaked and de-toed. Franny is one of our beautiful bronze girls who was rescued from a turkey breeding farm. Margaret is simply the best darn turkey ever - she is a 7-yr-old hen saved from a breeding farm, where she would have been repeatedly artificially inseminated. She has been severely de-beaked and de-toed, but she LOVES grapes and the people who provide them!

A big thank you to the sponsors that helped ensure a vegan catering company was used for this event!

    

  

About the Author

Bio: Jonathan Balcombe was born in England and raised in Canada. He studied biology at York University in Toronto, and Carleton University in Ottawa, before earning a PhD in ethology (animal behavior) from the University of Tennessee in 1991. Balcombe is the author of three popular books on animals: Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good, Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals, and The Exultant Ark: A Pictorial Tour of Animal Pleasure. He is currently Department Chair for Animal Studies with Humane Society University, based in Washington, DC. He enjoys biking, baking, birding, Bach, painting, and trying to understand his two cats.

You can purchase his book Second Nature when you order tickets. Proceeds benefit Animal Place.

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