about a year ago
i asked myself a question
knowing what i know
why am i not a vegetarian
after all
i'm one of the green guys i grew up with
hippie parents in a log cabin
i started a site called tree hugger
i care about this stuff
i knew that eating a mere hamburger a
day could increase my risk of dying by a
third
cruelty
i knew that the 10 billion
animals we raise each year for meat
are raised in factory farm conditions
that we hypocritically wouldn't even
consider for our own cats
dogs and other pets
environmentally
meat amazingly
causes more emissions than all of
transportation combined cars trains
planes buses boats all of it and beef
production uses a hundred times the
water that most vegetables do
i also knew that
i'm not alone
we as a society are eating twice as much
meat as we did in the 50s
so what was once the special little side
treat now is the main much more regular
so really any of these angles should
have been enough to convince me to go
vegetarian
there i was
tucking into a big old steak
so why was i stalling
i realized that what i was being pitched
was a binary solution
it was either you're a meat-eater or
you're a vegetarian
and i guess i just wasn't quite ready
imagine
your last hamburger
so my common sense
my good intentions whoops
we're in conflict with my taste buds
and i'd commit to doing it later
and not surprisingly later never came
sound familiar
so i wondered
might there be a third solution
and i thought about it and i came up
with one
and i've been doing it for the last year
and it's great it's called weekday veg
the name says it all
nothing with a face monday to friday
on the weekend
your choice
simple
if you want to take it to the next level
remember the major culprits in terms of
environmental damage and health
are red and processed meats
so you want to swap those out with some
good sustainably harvested fish
it's structured so it ends up being
simple to remember
and it's okay to break it here and there
after all cutting five days a week is
cutting 70 percent of your meat intake
the program has been great weekday veg
my footprint's smaller
i'm lessening pollution
i feel better about the animals i'm even
saving money best of all i'm healthier
i know that i'm going to live longer
i've even lost a little weight
so please
ask yourselves for your health
for your pocketbook
for the environment for the animals
what's stopping you from giving wake
dave edge a shot
after all
if all of us
ate half as much meat
it would be like half of us were
vegetarians
thank you
you