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:
DID YOU KNOW?
Livestock production...
BGH Difficulty Rating - **
Read below and get your Big Green Head wrapped around these startling facts:
- Trim some of the meat from your daily diet.
- Go online and try some meatless recipes.
- Make Friday, pizza night and order cheese or veggie.
- Make one night a week “big salad night” and get creative with your own restaurant size salads for dinner.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
Reduce/Reuse/Recycle - For this routine you are going to REDUCE the amount of meat you usually consume on a weekly basis.