This has been a very challenging year for the planet’s food supply. In particular, grains have been in short supply as we now grow grains for both food for our bodies and fuel for our cars (ethanol). This has led to unprecedented demand and record high grain prices. As a result, global hunger has grown to epidemic proportions. What can we do about this? One idea is to eat less meat!

Guess the number of Tofurky Roasts sold in order to calculate the total pounds of grain saved from eating Tofurky Roasts instead of turkey in the year 2008. If your guess is correct, you will win a new eGO Electric Cycle (www.egovehicles.com)!

How to enter:

1. First you will need to guess how many Tofurky Roasts will be sold from 1/1/08 to 12/31/08.
   Hint: 275,634 Tofurky Roasts were sold in 2007.
   
2. Contest entry form will then automatically multiply by amount of grain saved by eating one Tofurky Roast instead of the equivalent amount of turkey meat (5.77 pounds).    This weight will be your official contest entry. Remember to fill out your name and contact information.  Only one entry per person please.
3. Example: in 2007 Turtle Island Foods sold 275,634 roasts. Multiply this times
   5.77 lbs and you get a total of 1,590,408.18 pounds of grain saved!

Here is our math:

• Amount of Tofurky® (does not include the stuffing) in one roast: 21 oz
  
• Amount of grain to make 21 oz of Tofurky Roast: 0.62 pounds
  
• Amount of grain needed to make 21 oz of Turkey meat: 6.39 pounds
  
• Amount of grain saved by eating 21 oz of Tofurky instead of 21 oz of turkey: 5.77 lbs (6.39 lbs - 0.62 lbs = 5.77 lbs)

Contest Rules
The Fine Print:

• All entries become the exclusive property of Turtle Island Foods, Inc. and will not be returned.
• Winner is responsible for all taxes state, local and federal on prizes. Winner is also responsible for any service or set up fees from eGO vehicles.  State licensing requirements may vary and winner must register with local authorities. Bike will only be shipped to addresses in the US or Canada.  
• Employees and relatives of employees of Turtle Island Foods, its subsidiaries and affiliates, are not eligible.
• The contest is void were prohibited or otherwise regulated. All federal, state and local laws apply to the contest.
• All entries must be received via the website or sent to Turtle Island Foods, Attn: Grain Saver Contest, POB 176, Hood River, OR 97031 and postmarked by 11:59 pm PST December 31, 2008.
• Prizewinners will be notified by email or phone and posted on www.tofurky.com no later than February 15, 2009.
• First prize is one eGO cycle 2 SE electric bike. Second place through fifth place will receive Tofurky Care packages with cool products and merchandise. In event of a tie, winner will be selected based on which entry came in first.
• All grain ratios and numbers used in this contest are final. They were arrived at via our own research from independent organizations and Turtle Island Foods internal information and recipes. We realize that agricultural practices vary and that not all turkey producer’s yields will fall exactly into this formula. These are numbers deemed to be as accurate as possible and are used to illustrate a general point. We make no attempt to neither intentionally mislead nor misrepresent the public nor intentionally disparage any industry or processor. We do believe that if the world is going to try and grow both food and fuel from our fields of grain, economies and efficiencies of scale will have to be examined carefully.