Becoming a Weekday Vegetarian

So you love meat but have thought about quitting? Join the club. Besides the obvious health benefits of a vegetable diet, there are cost savings and environmental benefits to cutting back on meat consumption. Here’s an article from The Green Planet that delves into the dietary conundrum. To meat or not to meat? Answer: meat in the middle save it for the weekends. 

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by Kelly Rossiter

Between Passover and Easter we’ve been going to a lot of family dinners. Roasts were served and leftovers were sent home with us. My husband complained that he’s been eating too much meat and he’s ready to go back to our regular eating habits, which means mostly vegetarian meals. We eat very little meat at our house now and my cooking has changed quite a bit in the past five or so years.

There are lots of compelling reasons to become vegetarian, both personal and political, but not everyone is willing to give up meat consumption entirely. There is a growing trend towards being weekday vegetarians, or flexitarians. In a way, it’s the old model of moderation in everything.

By cutting meat out of your diet entirely you save 5,000 lbs of carbon emissions per year, so even reducing your meat intake to two out of seven days will still make a big difference. A vegetarian diet is significantly cheaper than eating meat every day…
 

Read the article http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/reduce-meat-weekday-vegetarian.html?dcitc=daily_nl