Here's today's challenge:
Don't eat any meat today, and see if you can cut down on the amount of meat you eat each week. Meat production has a large carbon footprint, with 2.2 pounds of beef producing the equivalent amount of CO2 as an average European car driving 155 miles. It takes 2500 gallons of water and many pounds of grain to make one pound of beef for your table. It's been estimated that if Americans were to reduce our meat consumption by 20%, it would be the equivalent of all Americans switching from a standard sedan to a Prius. (See "Rethinking the Meat Guzzler," by Mark Bittman, New York Times, 1/27/08.) For hundreds of free vegetarian recipes, visit http://www.bestveg.com/. Also, see Anna Lappé's Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It.
Until tomorrow ...
WE'RE CHANGING THE WORLD ... ONE CHALLENGE AT A TIME!
http://annkschin.blogspot.co.nz/2012/03/save-world-partner-with-less-fortunate.html
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well toots, i made it through to dinner then spaced out when i ordered a shrimp flatbread appetizer and realized i'd missed it for today. so that with dim sum yesterday, i bombed. but very little meat actually enters my house - first of all, it's way more expensive, and second of all, i've never seen it as really vital to any meal. it's kind of like dessert - it's a bonus, not a requirement. it's a side, not a main course. and that way? you buy only the good, locally grown, humanely raised options.
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