Why Im a weekday vegetarian Graham Hill

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 hippy 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

1/3 cruelty I knew that the 10 billion

animals we raise each year for meat are

raising 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 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 in the 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 its

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%

of your meat intake the program has been

great weekday veg my footprints 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 need a 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

weekday veg 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