The Meat We Eat

great advice! I do eat meat- but usually only a few times a month.

We don't eat much meat -- veggies and fruit and pasta are really big in our house :-)

I don't eat meat but rarely I eat an egg. William however is not giving up his meal eating ways. So what can I do ?

Try making a pizza even without the meat. Still good, we all like a cheese pizza!
Marie - I wish my husband liked more fruit & veggies!

Vegetarian 10 years plus

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I was a vegetarian many years ago. I became one for the same reasons you are giving. BUT it took me about 3x as long to cook dinner at night. I had to chop all the veggies for the Nut Loaf and then it took an hour to cook it. It took forever to buy the ingredients to have around - things that weren't easy to find. Now it takes me 1/2 hour to 45 minutes to make dinner on a nightly basis. I'm no longer vegetarian altho' we do eat that way 1-2 times a week normally. Tonight was vegetarian - whole grain pasta with a spinach sauce and some broccoli on the side. Took me about 1/2 hour. Last night we had shrimp with a side dish.

I do eat meat now and love it. I think in those days I just didn't like it much and had no idea how to cook it well. That was one reason I didn't eat it. I am a great cook now and cook everything.

I know the basis of the article was that if you eat less meat then you are doing less harm to the environment. I know that. I try and do other things to help the environment like recycle most things, give things away instead of throwing them out, reusing bottles instead of throwing them out after one use, using less water when brushing teeth and taking shorter showers. I'll stick to the way I do things now. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Cheese? That comes from dairy animals, one of the most poluting industries on the planet. The same with large corporate egg farms versus free range chicken eggs. I think a better plan is eat less meat and eat only small farm organic meat. If you cut meat use in half then the cost is pretty much the same.

What makes meat so damaging is the large corporate farms, which polute ground water and poison our meats with antibiotics and growth hormones. The US has one of the worst diets in the world counting 3rd world countries.

Good, thoughtful article, Priscilla.

We eat meat but we also eat poultry and fish and seafood. We have a veggie meal 2x a week. Sometimes 3. I try to mix it up. I used to be vegetarian but I married a non-vegetarian. I tried to change him but it didn't work. Eventually I grew allergic to a lot of vegetarian foods and I had to go back to eating some meat. I try to eat organic meat once every 2 weeks as it is extremely expensive. I also try to buy as much organic foods as possible without breaking the bank.

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