No Meat Week: Help Stop Global Warming!

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Nest steps and further resources

Julia Trist Jul 29, 2008
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    Julia Trist started this discussion on Jul 29, 2008

    Some ideas on how participants can take further action:

    • Write a letter to the editor about the fast
    • Organize a special meat-free feast in your home, workplace or community to raise awareness
    • Start conversations with family, friends and co-workers
    • Eat local, organic food
    • Shop at your local farmer’s market or join a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture)
    • Commit to eating less or no meat beyond the duration of the fast
    • Start a local group to organize around this issue in your community
    • Join or support other groups already working on this issue
    • Research and advocate for more sustainable agricultural methods, like methane-digester technology, more efficient water systems, etc.

    Further Resources:

    http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/
    http://www.goveg.com/environment.asp
    http://www.climateimc.org/
    http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/index.html
    http://www.edf.org/article.cfm?contentid=6604
    http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/

    Please feel free to add your ideas and resources to this list!

  • Michael Kwan
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    Michael Kwan replied on Aug 8, 2008

    Join the Facebook group, “Fight Global Warming! Eat Less Meat!”
    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=222382196…

  • Melody Cheung
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    Melody Cheung replied on Aug 13, 2008

    what week is no meat week?

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    Julia Trist replied on Aug 13, 2008

    The No Meat Week will commence once we reach the tipping point – 100 people pledging to participate.

    As we get closer to reaching that point, I think an obvious date will become clear. We’ll send out a press release to notify the media of the Week as we get closer.

    All ideas and contributions are welcome in coordinating further educational actions!

  • Adrian Munt
    Adrian Munt replied on Aug 13, 2008

    Been a vegetarian for 18 years, but if joining this effort gets 99 people to go meat free for a week, then great! I started off doing something similar and 18 years later I am still meat free!!

  • Joan Robinson
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    Joan Robinson replied on Aug 13, 2008

    Great idea, thanks for starting this.

    I am excited to send this to many members of my meat-eating extended family— but only once the dates are set. It is a little hard to explain/cumbersome/anticlimactic to ask people to join a campaign that starts at some unknown date in the future.

    That being said, I think I can get a bunch of meat-eaters to do this once it is set. I, myself, don’t eat or buy any meat ever.