Thinking about joining the Meatless Monday crew and found this article… Thought provoking.

The costs of his meat consumption weighed heavily on the heart and mind of Treehugger founder Graham Hill. He recognized the health risks, the cruelty to animals inherent in the factory farm system, and the fact that the greenhouse-gas emissions from beef production outweigh those from all forms of transportation combined.

Uncertain if he had the wherewithal to go exclusively vegetarian and unsatisfied with what he saw as a “binary solution” of meat eater or vegetarian, Hill carved out a less binding solution for himself. The “weekday veg” plan, as the name would suggest, calls for vegetarianism on the weekdays and an anything-goes-including-meat diet on the weekends.

You in?

via GOOD