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Meat-free Monday: Could you drop meat a day a week?

Jun 16 08:38am

- Paul McCartney says that to help minimise global wamring, we could all not eat meat for one day a week.

Beretts says he would eat me at least once a day, while Nat says you can certainly go vegetarian without resorting to tofu!

Can you, would you and do you think it would help? Tell us below...

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11. bluebelle_a - Jun 16 06:18pm

Kochie & Barretts, try my baked bean burgers for your meat free monday. Mix 1 cup polenta with hot water, add 1 tin baked beans, 1 cup breadcrumbs, parsley, salt, pepper, 1 finely chopped onion, roll and flatten into burgers, roll in breadcrumbs and fry..delicious

12. markberriman - Jun 16 06:54pm

Of course it helps. Animals chew up resources like water and feed crops. To keep meat fresh requires massive quantities of electricity and fossil fuels in refrigeration and transport. To use a vehicle analogy, meat is the 'hummer' of the food groups in terms of what it needs to produce it.

13. agzmylife - Jun 16 09:22pm

I'm UTTERLY DISGUSTED. I'm a farmer and yes i am a beef and lamb farmer and i'm damn proud of it i'm 3rd generation as well. How would you feel if your future, your livelyhood, your life long PASSION was taken away from you? WAKE UP to yourselves!!!! EAT RED MEAT EVERY DAY!

14. perfectsky5 - Jun 16 11:34pm

Edwin Moses, and Carl Lewis were vegetarians, Triathlete Branden Brazier is Vegan. Being a vegetarian does not diminish natural talent or athletic performance. As far back as the Ancient Games, Greek athletes trained on vegetarian diets!
http://ezinearticles.com/?Veget arian-Athletes---10-Olympic-Ch

15. beeceesplace - Jun 17 07:57am

Of course eating less meat is good for the environment producing 1kg of beef uses enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for nearly 20 days. Plant based diets are good for your health. Recent excavations of gladiators found they had plant based diets. It really is a no brainer.

16. tash_reus - Jun 17 08:51am

Congratulations to Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono, for this brilliant idea of 'meat free Monday' in Britain. We live in an age where 70% of the world's grain is fed to the world's intensive factory farming industries, whilst two thirds of the world's population goes hungry; where it takes 4000 glasses

17. tash_reus - Jun 17 08:55am

agzmylife - consider the livelyhood of the animals that you send to slaughter week in week out. As sentient beings they do feel pain, fear violence and death just like you and I. There is nothing wrong with adding a meat free day to the week - I hope it makes people feel so good that they add more!

18. rosemaryseam - Jun 17 03:15pm

nothing nicer than sardines on toast, once a week. rosy at kempsey

19. pfreeman43 - Jun 17 07:25pm

A brilliant idea. There's a town in Belgium that has a meat free day established by their local government. It's optional (since Belgians aren't fascists!), but they did it to reduce their environmental impact. Makes a much bigger difference than turning your appliances off at the wall!

20. pfreeman43 - Jun 17 07:28pm

(Also, while individual lifestock farmers may face hardship if meat consumption declines, it would be my opinion that the state of the planet is a far more important consideration. I'm not suggesting it would be easy, but perhaps they could look at crops?)

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