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Meat Free Monday Meat Free Monday is a new concept aimed to cut down the world’s meat consumption. Initially launched on June 15th 2009 Meat Free Monday follows the torch set by the Belgian town of Ghent that introduced a meat free day into its calendar a month earlier. Ghent’s day is Thursday and restaurants all guarantee a vegetarian meal on their menu on a Thursday with some being fully vegetarian on that day. Schools also will be providing a meat free menu on Thursday. Paul McCartney then backed the meat-free day idea in the UK and now you can find sites such as www.SupportMFM.org and www.MeatFreeMondays.co.uk promoting a veggie day in the UK. McCartney even sings a special Meat Free Monday song for the occasion, while other celebrities such as Joanna Lumley and Laura Bailey have given their approval too. Going meat free for one day – or even completely – helps humans, animals and the planet. Meat production is one of the largest causes of climate change, gasses giving off more emissions than even transport. At the same time meat production is less economical and people-friendly than that of vegetarian food production. And we all know how cruel it is to the animals involved. I mean, would you like to be bred just to die? Eating meat is now showing to be a factor of many health problems – from cancer to heart disease, diabetes and strokes. When you think about it logically, is there really any reason to eat meat? There are no points in its favour! Some argue that meat ‘tastes good’ – but now there is so much vegetarian and vegan food that you can virtually get any meat dish as a veg*n alternative. You can get fake bacon, veggie burgers, veggie sausages, tofurkey, even veggie steak. Most of these taste as good if not better than the meat-based versions. With shops like Holland & Barrett in almost every town it’s easy to find great meat free food. Even supermarkets sell a lot these days. If you eat meat, why don’t you try it? It doesn’t even have to be Monday. The idea is just to go one day a week without meat (or one more than you go without it already). If you know for example that you always eat a meat pie on Wednesday, why not make Wednesday a meat free day? If you find a veggie-meat pie you probably won’t even tell the difference. By cutting down that little bit more, you’ll help animals, the planet and yourself. You know it makes sense.
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