Opt to Act - Simple Action #12: Go Meatless One Day This Week
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Week 12: Go meatless one day this week
This week, hop on the Meatless Monday (or Tuesday or Wednesday) train. Plan at least one day of plant-based meals (the food blog A Couple Cooks has a great lineup of menu ideas for inspiration) and you’ll be joining a global effort launched by the Monday Campaigns and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health to try to reduce meat consumption in the U.S. by 15 percent. There are so many reasons to join this effort: The health benefits of eating vegetables include adding important nutrients to your diet (like potassium, dietary fiber, folate (folic acid), vitamin A, and vitamin C, for example), plus a reduced risk for developing heart disease, obesity and type 2 diabetes. Even one day of vegetarian livin’ each week can help reduce the environmental impact of the livestock industry, which accounts for more than 14 percent of global greenhouse gases every year. Finally, cooking vegetarian meals can give you a reason to get creative. Head to your local market (the closer the veggies were grown, the better) then whip up a pan of this delicious vegetarian shakshuka for dinner tonight.
