Take the Meatless Monday Pledge!

Small, simple actions can have a big impact. Reducing your meat consumption—even just one day a week—can improve your health, decrease your dependence on meat sourced from factory farms and lessen your environmental impact.

Why go meatless one day a week?

For Your Health: Reducing your meat intake has been shown to curb obesity and decrease your risk of diabetes, cancer and heart disease.

For the Environment: According to the UN, the meat industry generates 20% of all man-made gas emissions worldwide, a major contributing factor to climate change.

For Animals: In the United States, the majority of meat is sourced from animals raised in factory farms, where forced confinement, rampant antibiotic abuse and cruel slaughter practices are the norm.

Not sure what to cook? For inspiration, visit our Meatless Monday Gallery to see each week’s featured vegetarian recipe. The rest of the week, consider buying local, free-range organic meat.

Take the Meatless Monday pledge!

Creative Commons photo by Martin Cathrae, Flickr.