East Less Meat

Big Green Head is not much of a meat eater himself, but he realizes most people include meat in their daily diet as both a source of protein and pleasure. You don’t have to become a vegetarian to make an impact on the environment.

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Read below and get your Big Green Head wrapped around these startling facts:

1. Trim some of the meat from your daily diet.
2. Go online and try some meatless recipes.
3. Make Friday, pizza night and order cheese or veggie.
4. Make one night a week “big salad night” and get creative with your own restaurant size salads for dinner.
5. Try some of the high protein pastas, such as Barilla, and dress it up with pesto, garlic clam sauce, alfredo primavera or a meatless tomato sauce.
6. Cheese ravioli, manicotti, stuffed shells are always delicious and can be made ahead and frozen.

DID YOU KNOW?
Livestock production...

• • consumes 8% of the world’s water (mainly to irrigate animal feed)
  • causes 55% of land erosion and sediment
  • uses 37% of all pesticides
  • directly or indirectly results in 50% of all antibiotic use
  • Dumps 1/3 of all nitrogen and phosphorous into our fresh water supplies
  • Going without meat for two full days every week reduces 680 lbs CO2 per person per year. That equals 13.2 lbs CO2 per week and a healthy tree absorbs about 13 pounds of carbon annually.  So you will be doing more in a week than what a tree can do in a year.

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Expense: It shouldn’t cost you any more to add a few meatless meals to your menu.  In fact, you may actually trim some fat from your grocery bill. 

Reduce/Reuse/Recycle - For this routine you are going to REDUCE the amount of meat you usually consume on a weekly basis.