More Meatless Monday talk

So Change.org has a great piece about how going meatless ONE day a week is equivalent to taking 8 million cars off the road. The foodie debate that's been swelling is quickly approaching what I feel is a zenith. There will be time in the VERY near future when this hit's mainstream. You may say that they already have, but I'll tell you that even though movies like Food Inc did so much to move this discussion along, only approximately 3% of Americas population is vegetarian or
vegan.

About 3% of Americans are vegetarians, and about 1% are vegan.
In 2009, 3% of Americans were vegetarian and about 1% were vegan (Vegetarian Resource Group - “How Many Vegetarians Are There?”).
In a 2008 study on natural and alternative remedies, 1.6% of U.S. respondents said they had tried a vegetarian diet in the last 18 months. But this doesn’t include those who follow the diet for non-health reason.
In a 2006 poll, 2.3% of respondents said they never eat meat, poultry, or seafood/fish. 1.4% said they didn’t eat dairy products or eggs (Harris poll commissioned by the Vegetarian Resource Group). In a joint 2003 Canadian-American dietetic association position paper, 2.5% of Americans were labelled vegetarians.
(source here)

The debate is pretty simple especially in these hard economic times, who would you rather subsidize, Big Pharma and people like AMI or a more "earth friendly" and sustainable lifestyle choice? Yes, I consider vegetarianism a lifestyle choice, because I CHOOSE not to eat meat, I CHOOSE to consider what I put in my mouth.

Here's the article on Change

Oh and by the way ... just on a personal note, I saw the Pogues here in Austin last night. Shane and the boys, we love you and hope it doesnt take you 20 more years to come back. Rain or not, it was a life affirming show.