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Meatless In May: Reasons To Remove Meat From Your Diet Today!

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Chelsea Green (THE publisher of all books eco-friendly) and Your Daily Thread (LA’s guide to having FUN living green) have teamed up to help you go Meatless in May.

Why would you want to cut meat out of your diet, even if just for a month?

Chelsea Green says:

“Cutting meat out of your diet entirely saves 5,000 lbs of carbon emissions per year. By cutting meat out of your diet for just the month of May, you’ll be cutting 420 lbs. of CO2 out of your carbon footprint.”

Wondering how eating meat produces so much CO2 and other greenhouse gases?

Check out the short video (below) from the girls behind Your Daily Thread for an easy explanation.

The girls at Your Daily Thread have a running “beef with meat.”

As for me, I’m about 75% vegetarian.

My wife is a lacto-ovo vegetarian, so by default I eat lots of vegetarian meals — and love them.

But being a personal fitness trainer, I also know I need at least 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight every day to promote and sustain lean muscle growth.

It’s hard enough to get a “gram per pound,” as we refer to it, but to get it without meat is even harder. Not to mention I take issue with the dangers of soy protein.

What does that mean?

It means that chicken and fish are also a large part of my diet.

Will this video by YDT co-founders Tracy Helper and Lauren Johanson change my mind? Will it change your mind?

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If that’s NOT enough to make us take the 1 month challenge, check out 3 of Chelsea Green’s “truth bombs” on the subject:

  1. Livestock production accounts for 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions—more than all the world’s cars combined
  2. It takes 40 calories of energy to produce one calorie of beef.
  3. Walking uses more fossil fuel than driving — if you get your calories from red meat.

Wow!

Number 3 really got my attention. Which one got yours?

If you want to take the pledge and go meatless in May, head on over to the Meatless in May Facebook fan page. There you’ll find helpful info, links, videos, pictures, and much more.

Will you be taking the pledge?

Jeffrey
Jeffrey

I think every little step toward living green is an awesome one… but eco-snobbery sucks! My goal is to help newbies learn the most important steps toward living green — individually and collectively. Personally, I strive to have as little impact as possible on Planet Earth while I'm here.

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JeffreyI think every little step toward living green is an awesome one... but eco-snobbery sucks! My goal is to help newbies learn the most important steps toward living green -- individually and collectively. Personally, I strive to have as little impact as possible on Planet Earth while I'm here.

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JoshuaAs an advocate for good health, I usually try to choose the 'greener' option over other more dangerous and/or wasteful options. Generally, if it's bad for your health or the planet, I try to avoid it. In my effort to live green... on a budget, I like to find new (healthier) budget-friendly ways to do things -- from eating and cleaning to recycling and home decorating. My goal is to help you take the chore out of living green by sharing fun new ecofriendly ideas that you can try today... or any day! My all-time favorite way to live green is to repurpose items and give them a new use -- I've written a lot of useful DIY articles.

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LynnetteMy experience with living green consists of taking baby steps (like making one big change each year as my New Year's resolution) -- because I've seen too many people burn out on trying to 'Save the Planet'. I share a lot of Simple Ways To Go Green, as I find new and successful strategies that have worked for me. While I'm baby-stepping my ecofriendly habits in life, you will find me at the corner of Good News & Fun Times as publisher of The Fun Times Guide (32 fun & helpful websites).

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