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Thanksgiving, hold the turkey
感恩節火雞，且慢！
Becoming a vegetarian wasn’t that hard for Harper Dutton.
對哈珀·達頓來說，做一名素食主義者并不難。
The 26-year-old doesn’t really love the taste of meat anyway.
畢竟，26歲的她本來就不喜歡肉的味道。
So this summer, to help the environment, she quit.
所以，這個夏天，為了環境，她就選擇不再吃肉了。
What’s been more difficult is preparing to host Thanksgiving dinner.
困難的是準備感恩節晚餐。
Weeks before the holiday, Dutton was practicing making stuffing without bacon or lard at her home in an Atlanta suburb.
感恩節到來的幾周前，達頓就開始在亞特蘭大郊區的家中練習做沒有培根和豬油的餡料了。
"It is proving to be extremely challenging," she says.
“事實證明，難度超級大，”她說。
As evidence grows that eating less meat can help curb the effects of climate change,
越來越多的證據表明，少吃肉有助于減緩氣候變化的影響，
more and more Americans are preparing meat-free holiday meals for the first time.
為此，越來越多的美國人生平第一次開始準備素餐式的感恩節晚餐了。
According to a Nielsen poll taken in December 2018,
尼爾森公司2018年12月的一項民意調查顯示，
61% of Americans are willing to reduce meat consumption to help offset livestock’s environmental impacts.
61%的美國人愿意減少肉類消費，以幫助降低畜牧業對環境的影響。
Sales of plant-based meat replacements in the U.S. have grown 31% over the past two years,
植物性食品利益組織委托數據技術公司Spins開展的調查也報告稱，
according to a report by the data technology company Spins commissioned by plant-based food interest organizations.
過去兩年里，植物性肉類替代品在美國的銷量上漲了31%，
Tofurky, an alt-meat brand famous for its eponymous tofu-based turkey replacement,
Tofurky，該替代肉品牌的招牌菜便是以豆腐為主要食材制作的同名火雞，
has barely been able to keep up with the increased demand.
的生意幾乎到了供不應求的地步。
In February, the company had to bring in a $7 million private investment to meet production needs for 2019.
為滿足2019年的供應需求，今年2月，該公司還不得已引入了700萬美元的私人投資。
"We were not ready for what seems to have been the tipping point being met," says Jaime Athos, the CEO.
公司的CEO杰米·阿索斯表示：“我們還沒有準備好迎接這個類似于臨界點的挑戰。”
"Honestly, we didn’t expect it to happen so fast."
“說實話，我們真的沒想到這一天會來得這么快。”
Evolving attitudes toward vegetarianism in the U.S. have contributed greatly to the plant-based industry’s growth,
美國民眾對素食這種生活方式所持觀念的轉變對植物性食品產業的發展做出了巨大貢獻，
says Adam Shprintzen, author of The Vegetarian Crusade and an assistant professor of history at Marywood University in Scranton, Pa.
《素食運動》一書的作者、賓夕法尼亞州斯克蘭頓市瑪麗伍德大學的歷史系助理教授亞當·什普倫曾評論道。
Though some adopted vegetarianism in the 19th century simply because meat was so expensive,
盡管19世紀的部分素食主義者走上素食之路純粹是因為肉太貴，
the practice was historically associated with movements like women’s rights,
但這種做法一向是被與女性權利運動，
abolitionism and economic justice, casting the choice to avoid meat as a statement.
廢奴運動，經濟公正運動聯系在一起的，拒絕吃肉這一選擇儼然成了一種宣言。
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