Spreading the word about MEAT FREE MONDAYS !! I’ve been vegetarian for over 25 years now, my two kids aged seven and three are veggie too. So great to see this new campaign which I will be backing 100% http://www.supportmfm.org/

So what’s it all about? It’s a food campaign to encourage the nation to help slow climate change by reducing their meat consumption by having at least one meat free day a week. Having a MEAT FREE day every week is a simple way to start making a real difference in the world. The more people who join in, the more difference we can make.

But how can we all help? It’s easy, just devote at least one day a week, or more, if you like eating meat free. We’ve materials you can use to promote MFM and run your own meat free Monday’s, along with ideas and recipes for you to enjoy. If you’re vegetarian or vegan already, please use the campaign as an opportunity to get others involved by sharing with them your delicious dishes with them.

The UK’s Food Climate Research Network suggests that food production from farm to fork is responsible for between 20-30 percent of global green house gas emissions. Livestock production is responsible for around half of these emissions. The more meat we produce and eat the bigger that carbon footprint will get. A sustainable future demands that we cut down – and yet between 1961 and 2007 the world population increased by a factor of 2.2, but meat consumption quadrupled, and poultry consumption increased 10-fold.

As a result the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has concluded that the livestock sector is ‘one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global’.

To build a better world in the future we all need to make changes in our lifestyles now. Not all the changes we have to make are easy; and not all the easy changes we can make are meaningful. But making just one day a week a meat-free day is really is the little thing that can make a big change. For instance, the group Compassion in World Farming estimate that if the average UK household halved its consumption of meat this would cut more emissions than if car use was cut in half. By making a simple change in the way you eat, you are taking part in a world changing campaign where what’s good for you is also good for the planet.

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