By Recycla
Rocker Paul McCartney has launched Meat Free Mondays in the U.K. — a program that encourages people to eat no meat at all every Monday. He has joined forces with Meatless Monday, an American non-profit that champions this cause.
Why go meatless one day a week?
- to reduce your carbon footprint
- to minimize water usage
- to help reduce fossil fuel dependence
In addition, the health benefits include reducing your risk of heart disease, helping you maintain a healthy weight, and improving your overall diet.
This initiative has begun to spread around the globe, including Baltimore city public schools, a high school in California, and the city of Ghent in Belgium.
For more information about Meatless Mondays, Recycla encourages you to check out their website (linked above).
Recycla’s family usually eats meat and/or chicken 2-3 times per week, but she’s going to try to cut that down a bit. This time of year, she admits that it’s easy, as there are so many amazing vegetarian options when her garden is producing bumper crops of tomatoes, zucchini, and more. In the winter, her family tends to want pot roast, chicken and dumplings, and other comfort foods. So, her pledge is to have Meatless Mondays for this summer, with the intent of continuing it into the fall. She also pledges to try to cut back her family’s meat consumption in general.
What about it fellow Eco Warriors? Are you going to try to go meatless on Mondays?
I don’t think of our meals in terms of meat and meatless, we just eat. When we eat a pizza (usually homemade) I either chop a little ham and drop it on or I don’t. J and I quite often have mushroom risotto but not as a deliberate attempt to eat vegetarian, more because we like mushroom risotto. We also love a baby potato, onion and taleggio dish. Last night we had baked potatoes – not a deliberate decision to eat vegetarian, more than I’d been out all weekend and hadn’t thought about what we’d have so I had to make a standby. I’d say we probably eat beef, pork and chicken once each a week…but never planned out as that, that’s just law of averages.
That would be no problem for me. I was a vegetarian for over 6 years.