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- Ronnie Citron-Fink
- April 5, 2010
- 5:30 am
- 95 comments
One less meat-based meal a week helps the planet and your diet. For example: It requires 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef. For each hamburger that originated from animals raised on rain-forest land, approximately 55 square feet of forest have been destroyed. Top 10 reasons to go vegetarian.
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Ronnie Citron-Fink
Ronnie Citron-Fink is a writer, editor and educator. She has written hundreds of articles about sustainable living, the environment, design, and family life for websites, books and magazines. Ronnie is the creator of Econesting, and the managing editor of Moms Clean Air Force. Ronnie was named one of the Top Ten Living Green Experts by Yahoo. Ronnie lives in New York with her family.
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+ add your ownThis does look good! Will try! Thank you!
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You're preaching to the choir, vegan here :)
I agree with Heidi, go vegetarian.
Thank you for sharing!
My 2 c. For those that are used with meat, it will be hard to go vegetarian even once a week. They will fill malnourished and punished, and the decision won't last for too long especially in busy families with kids. The food industry should think very seriously about bringing on the market vegan/vegetarian meals that are easy to prepare and tasteful. Vegan dishes are by far more nutritious, lighter and healthier. As for the taste, they always taste better than the meat dishes especially the meat produced in factory farms. Even before turning vegetarian, I always disliked the meat as being tasteless and admired the good taste of Indian Cuisine with their variety of flavors and veggie combinations). However for the working parents/families in general it's very time consuming to cook rich in proteins and tasteful reciepies, unless you limit yourselves to a few options - beans, rice, or vegetable stew.
To go vegetarian once a week or so is easy, not sure I'd do it all the time though, too limiting for me.
Reducing your consumption of meat not only helps to reduce the suffering of the livestock themselves, but fewer wild animals (bison, wolves, etc) will be killed by the livestock ranchers as well.
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I've discovered that there are lots of easy meat-free recipes, so it's no real hardship to "go vegetarian" a couple of days a week.
Aoife O., perhaps you could offer to cook one day a week, if that would help to persuade your Mum?
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