Meat Free Meals
This terms Climate change Challenge is to try to eat Meat free, as a family, for one day a week or more if possible.
We have seen some lovely meals on our Facebook page. Please keep sharing your meals, the healthier the better. It is often inspiring to see what others are cooking and children are eating.
The reason eating meat is related to climate change issues, is due to the fact that food production (esp meat) and its related transport emissions is reportedly responsible for a huge amount of the carbon dioxide which is causing global warming.
The best possible solution, it is reported, would be a vegan diet (no meat, no dairy). We are not suggesting that everyone avoid meat and dairy all together, but that if everyone avoided meat (and if possible dairy) for one full day a week, emissions would reduce proportionally.
Buying your meat locally on the other days is also a way of supporting this issue. Local meat would mean less transport emissions, support local business and hopefully support with the issues related to other climate problems – ie the loss of rainforests in Brazil as a result of cattle farming for beef destined for British plates.
We are hoping that on meat free days families also avoid eating fish as well. This will also support the over farming of the seas, as well other related climate change issues.
