The First of Many Meatless Mondays
My personal impact habit will be to cut out meat from my meals on Monday. This means that every Monday instead of eating things such as bbq ribs, steak, or even chicken I will instead eat meatless alternatives like pasta or leafy greens. I plan on starting this habit next week and plan on continuing it until January 7th, 2019. This habit will allow me to help address my many ethical concerns for the estimated twenty two billion livestock being raised around the world (1) and reduce the estimated 9% of all american greenhouse gas emissions that are emitted while raising livestock (2). One such ethical concern that eating meat often helps to promote is that of factory farms which according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, (also known as the aspca) “ are industrial operations that contain upwards of 95% of all American livestock in inhumane conditions that harm their animals. “ Additionally, there are also tangible health benefits to redu...