Topic: meatless mondays

Beef Industry Bullies USDA; Wants Employee Fired For Suggesting Meatless Mondays

Beef Industry Bullies USDA; Wants Employee Fired For Suggesting Meatless Mondays

Remember that poor employee from the USDA who had the balls to suggest that her fellow employees get healthier and consider skipping meat once a week? Meat lovers freaked out because, you know, it was a major conspiracy to bring the entire meat market down. Well now, certain people from the beef industry want her fired for this “appalling endorsement” of Meatless Mondays. It’s bullying, really. And if it sounds strangely familiar to what happened to Oprah, it is. More »

Meatless Monday: 10 Vegetarian Pack-and-Go Lunch Recipes

Meatless Monday: 10 Vegetarian Pack-and-Go Lunch Recipes

This morning we posted about how to eat better at work—which is always easier said than done, especially if you’re trying to keep it vegetarian for Meatless Monday. Salads devoid of protein or carbo-loading on meat-free pizza and pasta is more likely to lead to an energy crash (and subsequent graze on vending machine snacks), so we culled our favorite food blogs for some easy pack-and-go options that don’t contain meat, and won’t leave you starving. More »

4 (More) Reasons To Try Meatless Mondays

4 (More) Reasons To Try Meatless Mondays

When many people think about going vegan or vegetarian or even adopting Meatless Mondays into their weekly meal schedule, the tendency is to do so for health reasons and/or for the ethical treatment of animals. To be honest, those are the reasons why I avoid meat. Then one day I started reading more about the environmental effects of farming and consuming animal products, and I have to say, I was shocked by some of the facts that are often easier to brush under the tablecloth because we don’t think they directly impact us (at least I didn’t). What I learned was that recycling and using eco-friendly products is great (no one’s going to deny that), but so is reducing our meat consumption. Here’s why. More »

Infographic: The Carbon Footprint Of Your Lunch

Infographic: The Carbon Footprint Of Your Lunch

You might think your health and the environment are separate issues (and who has time for both?), but the Environmental Working Group is finally putting two and two together with their newly-released “Meat Eater’s Guide to Climate Change and Health.” It’s full of illuminating facts about the eco-impact of our food (like eating just one less burger per week is the equivalent to taking your car off the road for 320 miles), and the graphic below, from the report’s chart of foods with the highest (lamb, beef, cheese, pork, salmon) and lowest (lentils, tomatoes, 2% milk, beans, and tofu) carbon footprints. More »

Video: Why “Meat Glue” and Franken-Steaks Are Banned in Other Countries

Video: Why "Meat Glue" and Franken-Steaks Are Banned in Other Countries

Warning: This video might seriously ruin your appetite for protein.

By now, you’ve probably heard that the meat industry is sort of sketchy, but this Australian news program’s exposé on meat glue might send you running from the steakhouse, permanently. The program demonstrates how “meat glue,” a.k.a. transglutamate, a binder made of blood plasma from pigs and cows, is used to re-attach meat scraps so they can be sold as larger cuts of meat. The glue works so well that not even professionals are able to tell the franken-steaks from the real thing: great for restaurants and suppliers; bad for consumers who don’t know that what they’re buying isn’t 100% beef. More »

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