Reduce your meat intake

Green Tip of the Week
Reduce your meat intake

· Omitting meat just once a week reduces your risk for heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer.
· Start by omitting meat from one or two meals per week, maybe working up to one per day. Find some simple recipes for healthy, protein-packed meat-free meals here (recipes at bottom).
· Try to eat less beef, pork, and lamb, as these have a higher carbon footprint per pound than their meat counterparts (chicken, fish, etc).
· Click here for Tips for Responsible Carnivores.

Did you know?

• Animals are fed antibiotics such as arsenic to prevent disease spread in overcrowded factory farms. These antibiotics are absorbed into the animal meat as well as excreted from their bodies, posing a threat to our health and the health of delicate ecosystems.
  Livestock is a major player in climate change, accounting for 18 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions.(9)
• More than 2.9 million acres of rainforest were destroyed in the 2004-2005 crop season in order to grow crops used to feed factory farm animals. (2006 Greenpeace report "Eating Up the Amazon”) (10)
• Overfishing is becoming a serious problem for our oceans. The rate at which the Earth’s human population consumes fish is not sustainable; if we continue at this rate, there will not be seafood on our plates. Listen to an interesting NPR interview here.
• The world's cattle alone consume a quantity of food equal to the needs of 8.7 billion people — more than the entire human population on Earth.(11)