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Celebrate Meatless Mondays: An Easy Challenge For The Animals And Environment
Not ready to go vegetarian or vegan? You can still help the environment and animals by just reducing your meat and seafood consumption even a little bit!
Meatless Mondays is a fantastic global movement founded in 2003 to help people reduce their meat consumption by 15% to improve both personal health and the health of the planet that has continued to grow every year. Participating in Meatless Mondays means picking one day a week(and it doesn't have to be Monday!) to eat vegetarian, cutting out meat and seafood and perhaps even vegan by avoiding dairy products and eggs. Some use Meatless Mondays as a way to begin the transition into a fully or mostly vegetarian diet, while others are content to continue doing the once-a-week vegetarian thing forever. Over 50% of Americans are familiar with the concept and 1 in 5 are already doing it. I myself began by eating meat products only 1-3 times per week for a couple years, then eventually took the plunge toward full-time lacto-ovo vegetarianism.
How does Meatless Monday help?:
*If the world reduced meat consumption 15%, it would have the same impact on greenhouse gas emissions as taking 240 million cars off the road each year
*For every burger skipped, you save enough water to wash your car 15 times
*For every burger skipped, you save enough energy to charge your Iphone for 4.5 years
*For every burger skipped, you can save enough water to shower with for the next 2.5 months
*You can do more for the planet by going meatless on Mondays than by switching to a totally local diet
*On average, about 40 calories of fossil fuel energy go into every calorie of beef in the U.S., compared to 2.2 calories for vegetable protein
*Each day you leave meat off your plate, you can reduce your carbon footprint by over 8 pounds
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