meatless mondays
Like the title say, reduce meat consumption on Mondays. This would help reduce out footprint enormously. Furthermore, we would be the first city in Canada to adopt such a policy, the second in North America (after San Fran.) and the third in the world. It would be non-binding, that is great if you do it, OK if you don't. Read more here: http://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating-recipes/blogs/san-francisco-joins-meatless-monday-bandwagon
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sass84
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Low footprint food choices are not the same as vegan food choices in all cases, the analysis is more complex than this. Generally a low footprint diet is local, seasonal food, and limits consumption of red meat, dairy, and some grains. Low footprint food choices is included in the draft Greenest City Action Plan and will be discussed in ongoing community engagement work.
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sass84
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YES!
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Colleen M
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oops, forgot to press the vote button.
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Colleen M
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Yes! Let's do it...
with a bit of press on this
it would help make it happen
Montreal is doing it (en francais: lundisansviande.net)
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Trevor Murdock commented
I fully agree and I'd further like to see the City pass a resolution in support of going meatless (and even better mooless too) at least one day per week due to the greenhouse gas emissions and water use associated with livestock and dairy.
Vancouver could be the first city to follow the lead of Ghent Belgium, and would gain support from Meatless Monday Canada and similar movements in the US and UK endorsed by Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Sir Paul McCartney.
There is more info about the Canadian movement at http://www.meatlessmonday.ca