Happy new year, everyone!If one of your new year's resolutions has been to eat less meat but you're not sure where to start, Paul McCartney, long-time vegetarian, has a suggestion for you. Why not try going meat-free one day a week? Say... Monday!
Learn how changing your diet for just one day a week can help reduce global CO2 emissions, be healthier, protect animal rights... in a word, save the planet.
From the site:
To build a better world in the future we all need to make changes in our lifestyles now. Not all the changes we have to make are easy; and not all the easy changes we can make are meaningful. But making just one day a week a meat-free day, really is the little thing that can make a big difference. For instance, the group Compassion in World Farming estimates that if the average UK household halved its consumption of meat this would cut more emissions than if car use was cut in half. By making a simple change in the way you eat, you are taking part in a world changing campaign where what’s good for you is also good for the planet.
With lots of recipes to help you get started, the site is full of great ideas and support to show how one small change can really make a difference.
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DONE!
Meat eater here for 60 years - one day will not be hard for a start.
I can see the advantage of doing this and hopefully see more than one day before the end of the year.
Good idea, Patrick, thanks for sharing. And thanks much for the daily Mutts strip.
I've been a full-time vegetarian since the age of 26, but I love this idea. It's taking hold in schools and other institutions, and is such a wonderful way to inch people in the direction of sanity and humanity. Setting aside the issues of cruelty, and human health, the global meat industry accounts for more GHGs (greenhouse gas emissions) than the global transportation industry! Now there's something to chew on. Thanks Mooch and Earl, for a powerfully good suggestion...
As a Humane Society Teen Advisory Board member, I think this is a great idea. I am a vegetarian already, but I know a lot of people who feel bad about their meat consumption but do not want to become full-time vegetarians. As the saying goes, "a little goes a long way." Imagine what the impact would be if the whole world did this? Eating less (or no) meat has so many benefits to individual people and to society and the earth as a whole.
I'm all for this as well but to really make a difference - only eat grass fed animal meats when you do eat meat. Being a carnivore isn't the problem, it's the factory farms. Family farming has always been an essential aspect of our community.
A group of us get together each Monday to study the Bahai Writings, but since I am the only vegetarian, I am trying to convince the other members to participate in Meat Free Mondays. Since our prophet-founder, Bahaullah, condemns cruelty to animals and further states, "Truly, the killing of animals and the eating of their meat is somewhat contrary to pity and compassion, and if one can content oneself with cereals,fruit, oil and nuts...it would undoubtedly be better and more pleasing," I think this should convince them.
Our church has been on the Daniel Fast since the 10th of this month, and meat was one of the items on the list of no-no's. I have never felt more energetic and have more of a mental clarity from this way of living than I ever have! Praise God for taking care of me! I am not going to go back to my "normal" way of eating. Long live Tofu!! :)
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