Do March’s Green Thing. Go Easy On The Meat.
- Eazy On Da Meat, the video
- The meat aversion podcast
- Eazy On Da Meat, the mp3
- Meat Royale, the backstory of a burger
- Denton Rose does the Green Thing
Put down your pork chop, surrender your sausage, and lay off the lamb shanks. This month’s Green Thing is all about going Easy On The Meat.
Now, meat may be tasty – in fact, it’s downright delicious, especially in pie format. But unfortunately it’s also responsible for massive emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.
The way cows, pigs, sheep and even chickens are reared (no sniggering) uses lots of fossil fuels, creating lots of CO2. Farm animals also have a nasty habit of producing vast quantities of methane, as you’ll know if you’ve ever picnicked downwind of a cowherd.
So this month, do your bit for the planet by going Easy On The Meat. You don’t have to go complete veggie – chopping out a couple of portions a week would be a fine effort.
Every time you turn down a turkey or bat back a bacon buttie, let us know you’ve DONE IT so we can add up all the CO2 saved by heroic Green Thing members.
Eazy, Meaty March Green Things...
Meatballz With Attitude return with their sizzlin’ new rap that proves that less meat don’t mean less machismo. Also featuring the salami and cucumber scratchin’ skills of DJ Broc Da House.
Craving a sizzling sirloin? Then listen to this short-term meat aversion podcast. Its mixture of facts and near-facts will put you off meat for exactly 2 hours 10 minutes – enough time to track down a cheese sarnie.
“Today I’m goin salady/It ain’t no meatless malady/I ain’t no social leper coz I’m eatin’ a red peppa.” Download the M.W.A tune, stick it on your iPod and play it while you’re shopping at the grocery store.
Less pulp fiction, more beef fact, learn the offal truth about a humble burger and its terrible carbon criminal record. Starring Vincent Venison, Jules Cattlefield and half a pound of minced beef.
Brilliant news. The internet's top Elvis-wig-wearing paranormal investigator is now doing the Green Thing every month. This month, the man from Nashville tells us why meat is always on his mind.
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When humans roamed the Earth without the use of cars, planes and jetskis, and we didn't have the luxuries of suermarkets, central heating and organised government, MEAT was something you would only get if you were lucky. So our physiology isn't designed to eat meat nearly as often as we do anyway :o)
Thanks twenty_questions, it's a good point. Yes, dairy is a problem product. We had thought of dairy as one of the 'do more' actions, but the replacement for dairy would be soya or oat/nut milks and I don't know that there are carbon figures for other types of milks, so it would be a difficult one to know how much carbon is saved. If anyone has some facts and figures we'd love to hear them and will post on the wiki.
VEGGIE FOR LIFE!
If you cannot avoid meat completely, stay clear of the red meats as they are responsible for more greenhouse gases than meats like chicken or turkey!
should we be going easy on the dairy as well? surely it takes just as many resources to raise dairy cattle?
should we be going easy on the dairy too? surely it takes as many resources to rear dairy cows? and unless it's organic the standard of care is probably questionable as well
Hey I am a born and practicing vegetarian....so i have been doing it for the last 30 years.... I do it every day and night...
vegetarians ROCK. nuff said.
I read the book, Planet Chicken, that helped 'made me do it'....