Today, World Vegetarian Day, kicks off Vegetarian Awareness Month (what, you didn’t know?).
Plant-based diets have been shown to improve and promote health, promote ethical treatment of animals and to conserve precious resources. According to the North American Vegetarian Society, vegetarianism…
- Reduces the risk of major killers such as heart diseases, stroke and cancer while cutting exposure to food borne pathogens.
- Provide a viable answer to feeding the world’s hungry through more efficient use of grains and other crops
- Saves animals from suffering in factory-farm conditions and from the pain and terror of slaughter
- Conserves vital but limited freshwater, fertile topsoil and other precious resources
- Preserve irreplaceable ecosystems such as rainforests and other wildlife habitats
- Decreases greenhouse gases that are accelerating global warming
- Mitigate the ever-expanding environmental pollution of animal agriculture
If you’ve considered trying the lifestyle, October is a good month to do so. For the less ambitious, give Meatless Monday a shot in October. This small lifestyle change can have an enormous influence on the planet.
Find recipes for Meatless Monday from Food Contributor Sue Chehrenegar.
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Meat 2050
28 August 2012 12:01 PM | No CommentsScientists predict that by 2050 the world population will be following a vegetarian diet. The average eater gets 20 percent of their protein from animal-based products. To accommodate the additional two billion people who will populate the planet in 2050 that number would have to...
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Moroccan-Spiced Sweet Potato Medley
29 July 2012 5:20 PM | No CommentsFrom Good Housekeeping’s Vegetarian Meals, Meatless Recipes Everyone Will Love, a spicy combination of cooked vegetables and bulgur for your Meatless Monday. Prep Time: 20 minutes Cook Time: 30 minutes Ingredients: 2 teaspoons olive oil 1 medium onion 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1 ½ teaspoons...
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Earth Week Challenge Day 1
16 April 2012 4:09 PM | No CommentsTo celebrate Earth Week 2012, we’re asking readers to particpate in a series of daily challenges. Day 1: Meatless Monday Many of you are probably already practicing this one, but for those of you who aren’t yet meatless at least once a week, consider this: One-fifth...
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Positively Vegan
08 February 2012 1:48 PM | 1 CommentMost people I know, myself included, believe the ideal diet is best achieved through a process of elimination. We’re focused on all the things no longer on the menu. I found this to be especially true as a recently converted vegan. Just as eating was...
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Green is Garnish
16 January 2012 2:10 PM | No CommentsOn this Meatless Monday, and as we continue our thirty-day vegan pledge, we found solace in AG Sulzberger’s article on the trials and tribulations of being a vegetarian in an environment where eating meat is part of the (celebrated) culture. Sulzberger relocated to Kansas City, ...
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Cauliflower Pasta
05 December 2011 11:32 AM | No CommentsA great recipe for this first Meatless Monday in December from Ellen Kanner at Huffington Post: 1 cauliflower (bunch) 2 tablespoons olive oil 5 cloves garlic, chopped 1 generous pinch red pepper flakes (how generous is up to you — season to taste, remember?) 1/2...
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Good Autumnal Eats
19 October 2011 12:31 PM | No CommentsMushroom lasagna. French lentils with chard. Barley and herb-stuffed vegetables. Cheese straws! It’s like we hit the autumnal vegetarian recipe jackpot! We’ll be trying some of these NY Times provided recipes on our own and posting our results, but please get started without us.
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Oprah Talks Vegan
04 February 2011 10:05 AM | No CommentsMillions of people heed her advice, revel in her favorite things, and embrace her literary choices, but will Oprah’s devout followers go vegan? On her February 1 show, Oprah invited Michael Pollan, Kathy Freston, and Lisa Ling to talk food and the moral, ethical, and...
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What We’ve Learned (so far)
30 December 2010 9:38 AM | No CommentsIn their monthly piece What I’ve Learned, Esquire magazine asks a noted figure or personality to share their life lessons. In celebration of the new decade in which we hope to grow an learn a great many lessons, greenlimbs would like to share what we’ve...
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Meatless Mondays
02 June 2010 4:28 PM | No CommentsI made the shift from carnivore to herbivore almost two years ago. For me, it was a very personal decision made in the hopes of rectifying a digestive system that was ruining my life and a firm commitment to trying to live a more eco-conscious...
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