Week 6 - Top Ten Reasons to go Veg During World Vegitarian Week

World Vegetarian Week is this week -- so in honor of that I decided to do some research on going Veg and here is what I found. While I wont share you the top ten reasons to go vegetarian I do want to share with you my favorite ones:

#1 -- Helping animals also helps the poor
We feed animals over 760 million tons of grain to our farm animals -- that's SOOO much food that can be feeding the billions of people in the world who go hungry every day. Want to put a big dent in global poverty? Think about going VEG!

#3 -- Eating meat is bad for the environment!
The UN recently reported that eating meat is "one of the … most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.” The UN cites an example where eating meat causes 40% more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, and planes in the world combined.

#7 -- Cancer
Dr. T. Colin Campbell, one of the world’s foremost epidemiological scientists and director of the largest and most comprehensive large study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease, states that: "No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein.” That's kinda scary.While I still find it really hard to cut meat out of my life I have pledged to cut my consumption of meat to one serving a day. Baby steps right?

To catch all top ten according to PETA visit this link.

Week 1 - Paul McCartney Goes Vegetarian

“If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That’s the single most important thing you could do. It’s staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.”

-- Paul McCartney

On Earth Day this year, Sir Paul McCartney urged people to not only go green, but to eat greener as well. McCartney highlighted the fact that going vegetarian is not only an ethical choice that sends a message against animal cruelty, but going vegetarian can also curb the effects of global warming and world wide hunger. He went on to mention the health benefits of a vegetarian diet as well. Looking more closely into his quotes it becomes clear that McCartney is right about the incredible effects vegetarians can have on hunger and the environment. To see the differences that McCartney is talking about everyone would have to go veg. Problem with that is people feel like their individual actions do not effect the greater good -- I hope that the ending hunger and saving the environment shpeal will be enough for everyone to quit thinking that their actions don't make a difference. We've seen this happen with recycling campaigns, reducing water and energy usage campaigns, and other similar public service announcements.

To read the article on McCartney click here.