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Would you go meat free for Monday?

26 Nov 10:50am

Filed under: Diet, Environment, Food, Health, Meat Free Monday, Paul Mccartney, Rosemary Stanton, Vegetarianism

It’s Monday, so I can tell you what Richard Branson is having for dinner. Well probably not exactly, but one thing is for sure, it won’t be meat. Why? Because it’s Meat Free Monday and he’s one of the faces of the iniative being run by Do Something! and the Frys Family Foundation, that encourages everyone to spend at least one day of the week not eating meat.

Meat free magic looks a bit like this

Wait – please keep reading. This is not a rant against eating meat. Meat is good and yummy but as Rosemary Stanton tells The Punch, the planet would be better off if we all just cut back how much of it we are eating, by just one day.

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Tim says:

06:43pm | 26/11/12

Sami, It’s impossible to be friends with animals, they aren’t human. Pets can be companion animals but they aren’t “friends”. The thing with vegetarians are that a lot of them simply anthropomorphise animals. It’s also the answer to your question of why some people will eat cows but not dogs… Read more »
Rob says:

06:41pm | 26/11/12

Who declared a No meat Monday? I will continue to eat what I want when I want. Although I think it would be more popular if I declared a No Offal 24/.period. Read more »

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