We can all make a significant contribution towards reducing environmental damage simply by eating less meat. If the world skipped meat one day a week, the greenhouse emissions reduced would be equivalent to removing 240 million cars from the road each year. Skip one burger to save enough water to wash your car 15 times.
Meatless Mondays is a global initiative now active in 36 countries. It’s a light-hearted approach that focuses on encouraging meat-eaters to make gradual changes towards eating more plant-based foods. Those changes also benefit our health and reduce the number of animals raised inhumanely on factory farms.
For more information, see the Meatless Mondays websites, and check out the local Facebook page, Sunshine Coasters for Meatless Mondays, for news of vegetarian cooking classes, events such as Veg Fest, sources of local humanely raised eggs and meat and vegetarian recipes galore.
