No, you didn’t miss Valentine’s. Breathe easy. (Still, buy your significant other some flowers - always a good plan.)
Instead, it’s World Vegetarian Day - followed by “Vegetarian Awareness Month”.
The idea is to get you to at least try a vegetarian diet for a day, or maybe a week, or even a month.
There are plenty of reasons to do so:
- Beef production is a top source of greenhouse gasses
- Meat production is extremely energy-intensive
- Animal Farms are incredibly inhumane
- Rampant use of antibiotics in beef production
- From time to time, you get feces in your beef. Though, to be fair, that can happen with veggies too, if maybe less frequently. Remember the spinach last year?
I have to admit though, my reasons are much simpler, and much more selfish. I’ve been a “casual vegetarian” (i.e. I don’t freak if I have to eat meat) in the past, and I was simply feeling better and had more energy. Over time, I became more and more casual, and less vegetarian. I simply felt better when I was eating more veggies and less meat.
So I’ll use this as an occasion to give it another try, and see how it goes. I’ll report back at the end of the month. Anybody willing to join me?
I’ve been doing the vegetarian thing for 5 years, so I’ll be joining you, if only by default. Never heard of World Vegetarian Day before though. I am beaming with pride. I feel like I should buy all my friends a carrot. Unless they’d think I’m trying to convert them. Surely not. It’s only a carrot.
I’ve been full time vegetarian for a couple months now. Love it!
I’ll pile on with the encouragement. I’ve been a pescetarian (aka pesco-vegetarian… I eat fish) for a few years now and it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself.