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Meat-Free Mondays Go Mainstream

15 Jun 2009 by Paul Northup

Paul McCartney, Chris Martin and Sheryl Crow have launched the ‘Meat Free Monday’ campaign, asking people to forego meat one day a week to slow global warming.

As reported on Generous a while back, the world’s leading authority on Climate Change, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, says going meat-free one day a week is the ‘most attractive’ way for individuals to reduce carbon emissions. A 2006 UN study found that the livestock industry is responsible for 18% of man-made global greenhouse gas emissions, not least because of deforestation in the Amazon – cutting down trees to create land to raise cattle to cut down again to produce meat for

“I think many of us feel helpless in the face of environmental challenges, and it can be hard to know how to sort through the advice about what we can do to make a meaningful contribution to a cleaner, more sustainable, healthier world,” said McCartney. “Having one designated meat free day a week is actually a meaningful change that everyone can make, that goes to the heart of several important political, environmental and ethical issues all at once.”

More on Meat Free Monday here including these not bad vegetarian recipes.

Commit to go meat-free one day a week here on the Generous site.

Photograph: Peta

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