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Recently Paul McCartney, a long-term vegetarian and animal-rights activist, asked the people of Britain to cut down on meat consumption by removing it from their meals on Mondays.
We should do the same.
The effect of the meat industry on the environment and global poverty is extraordinary. The amount of resources it takes to feed animals for future consumption could better be spent feeding people or investing in sustainable methods of farming and agriculture. The carbon emissions created by housing animals in mass-quantities also lead to global warming and environmental degradation.
According to Environmental Defense, if every American skipped one meal of chicken per week and substituted vegetarian foods instead, the carbon dioxide savings would be the same as taking more than a half-million cars off U.S. roads.*
Lets make a pledge to eat only vegetarian foods on Mondays and encourage other people to do the same, curbing climate emissions and making vegetarianism a more mainstream alternative to the American diet.
I (the organizer) am already a vegetarian, so in the spirit of this campaign I will only eat vegan foods on Monday. I encourage both omnivores and vegetarians to join so we can all help in reducing the global burden of the meat industry.
