City Of Vancouve Proclaims Country's First Meatless Monday

[DonLever]

City of Vancouver proclaims country’s first Meatless Monday

Published Tuesday, June 11, 2013 9:02AM EDT

Vancouver has become the first city in Canada to embrace "Meatless Monday," encouraging residents to forego meat for one day a week for the sake of the planet and their health.

The city declared June 10 the first Meatless Monday following a recommendation from the Vancouver Food Policy Council, an advisory group to city council that’s made up of volunteer farmers, food distributors, nutritionists, and activists.

The food policy council says the idea of Meatless Mondays is to promote a more moderate intake of meat, both to “protect global resources and contribute to planetary health," as well as to reap the health benefits.

The group says animal agriculture is an inherently inefficient food production method and notes that according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, the production of meat generates one-fifth of the greenhouse gas emissions -- more than all forms of transportation combined.

The food policy council also says that reducing meat intake can lessen one’s risk for a number of chronic diseases such as obesity, heart disease, and cancer. The Canadian Cancer Society also recommends lowering the intake of meat, noting that a diet high in red and processed meat has been linked to an increased risk of colorectal cancer and other cancers.

But while vegans and part-time vegetarians have reason to celebrate a Meatless Monday, not everyone feels the same way. Butchers at West Broadway Meat Co. in Kitsilano held their own media event, carving up the carcass of a water buffalo that had been raised in Chilliwack.

The owners of the butcher claimed it was just a coincidence their own media event took place during the city’s first Meatless Monday event. But the timing attracted a number of cameras– as well as vegetarian protesters.

Julia Smith, one of the farmers who helped organize the event at the butcher’s, said they weren’t trying to mock the Meatless Monday message. They only wanted to make the point that meat lovers should be consuming only ethically-raised animals, not meat raised on so-called factory farms.

“We like the concept of eating less meat, but we want people to make more responsible choices year-round, not just on Mondays,” she told The Vancouver Sun.

The Meatless Monday concept began in the city of Ghent, Belgium, in 2009, and then spread to various cities in the United Kingdom, with the helpof promotion by Sir Paul McCartney.

A number of other celebrities, such as Oprah, Michael Pollan, and celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis, have all vowed to go meatless on Mondays

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[Dogbyte]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO,

VEGANS ARE SO ANNOYING.

[Baka]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO,

VEGANS ARE SO ANNOYING.

[lee goren rulez69]

lol

[Imuzi]

VEGANS OUT

[Dazzle]

This is really stupid.

What does eating meat have anything to do with the environment?

The meat has already been produced. It's up to you to eat it or not.

A government needs to stay out of the private lives of citizens.

This is a pointless initiative.

I think it is much more efficient to encourage "earth day" every single week. It saves an incredible amount of power.

[Stefan]

This is really stupid.

What does eating meat have anything to do with the environment?

The meat has already been produced. It's up to you to eat it or not.

A government needs to stay out of the private lives of citizens.

This is a pointless initiative.

I think it is much more efficient to encourage "earth day" every single week. It saves an incredible amount of power.

[Dittohead]

Absolutely not. How about PEOPLE STOP TELLING OTHERS HOW TO LIVE. I don't need to be told when I can and cannot eat Meat. How about F Off stupid vegans and vegetarians

[inane]

This is really stupid.

What does eating meat have anything to do with the environment?

The meat has already been produced. It's up to you to eat it or not.

A government needs to stay out of the private lives of citizens.

This is a pointless initiative.

I think it is much more efficient to encourage "earth day" every single week. It saves an incredible amount of power.

[DonLever]

These buffons in the City of Vancouver keep getting re-elected. Bike lanes no one uses, chicken coops in the backyard.

When is this madness going to end?

Its time to get rid of Mayor Robertson and its lunatic Vision council members.

[Stefan]

These buffons in the City of Vancouver keep getting re-elected. Bike lanes no one uses, chicken coops in the backyard.

When is this madness going to end?

Its time to get rid of Mayor Robertson and its lunatic Vision council members.

[canucks#01fan]

Relax guys, its not like youre forced to not eat meat, its like titty tuesday on twitter

[Warhippy]

Absolutely not. How about PEOPLE STOP TELLING OTHERS HOW TO LIVE. I don't need to be told when I can and cannot eat Meat. How about F Off stupid vegans and vegetarians

[Warhippy]

Yes, how dare they try to encourage the well being of our

environment by simply suggesting less consumption of meat.

Ruthless bastards. All they care about is themselves.

Go watch some videos on the environmental impact these farms have. Or watch some slaughter house videos.

[Warhippy]

I am rather sick of people and agencies and governments micromanaging our lives. We want to eat meat, it is not up to you to tell us why we shouldn't. We want to smoke, it isn't up to you to lecture us on why it is bad. Imagine, me giving you a lecture on why a broken bone is bad by showing you a first hand account. It is ridiculous and angers me to know end. I dated a vegan for a while, good girl. But she never preached she never bothered me about it. But others...it just seems that pretentious attitude follows you and you cannot help but stick your nose into my personal business. Here is a fun thought. You want to save the environment and you want to protect the animals....yet you're eating all their food. therefore, you're part of the problem. And yes I have seen the big slaughterhouses, they're terrible I lived downstream from one in California. But I go to a small local butcher who knows where my meat came from.

[inane]

I am rather sick of people and agencies and governments micromanaging our lives. We want to eat meat, it is not up to you to tell us why we shouldn't. We want to smoke, it isn't up to you to lecture us on why it is bad. Imagine, me giving you a lecture on why a broken bone is bad by showing you a first hand account. It is ridiculous and angers me to know end. I dated a vegan for a while, good girl. But she never preached she never bothered me about it. But others...it just seems that pretentious attitude follows you and you cannot help but stick your nose into my personal business. Here is a fun thought. You want to save the environment and you want to protect the animals....yet you're eating all their food. therefore, you're part of the problem. And yes I have seen the big slaughterhouses, they're terrible I lived downstream from one in California. But I go to a small local butcher who knows where my meat came from.

[Common sense]

Perhaps Mayor Bikelanes should start worrying about the poverty epidemic in the DTES moreso than what's on my dinner plate.

[Stefan]

My food eats your food....then sh**s on your food. Bon Appetite

[Stefan]

I am rather sick of people and agencies and governments micromanaging our lives. We want to eat meat, it is not up to you to tell us why we shouldn't. We want to smoke, it isn't up to you to lecture us on why it is bad. Imagine, me giving you a lecture on why a broken bone is bad by showing you a first hand account. It is ridiculous and angers me to know end. I dated a vegan for a while, good girl. But she never preached she never bothered me about it. But others...it just seems that pretentious attitude follows you and you cannot help but stick your nose into my personal business. Here is a fun thought. You want to save the environment and you want to protect the animals....yet you're eating all their food. therefore, you're part of the problem. And yes I have seen the big slaughterhouses, they're terrible I lived downstream from one in California. But I go to a small local butcher who knows where my meat came from.

[Warhippy]

No one is telling you not to eat meat.

And as said prior. Do what you want with your body but when the typical highly indulgent meat eater has a heart attack at 40 I don't want my tax dollars going to save his dumb ass just because he wanted to eat bacon every day