{"id":16398,"date":"2018-03-20T09:59:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T13:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=16398"},"modified":"2018-03-26T10:19:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T14:19:31","slug":"why-meatless-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2018\/03\/20\/why-meatless-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Meatless Monday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Monday, 4\/16 &#8211; Meatless Monday for Earth Week 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How might the world change if everyone were to<br \/>\nconsume 14% less meat? That\u2019s the idea <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16436 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/no-meat-sign-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"no meat sign\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>behind Meatless Monday. Not only is going meatless one day a week helpful in reducing your risk of chronic preventable diseases, it also helps reduce your global footprint.<\/p>\n<p>The meat industry uses a vast amounts of precious resources, like fossil fuels and water. While going vegetarian or vegan isn\u2019t for everyone, one meatless day a week goes a long way toward helping the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Meatless Monday is that much more important in the U.S. because Americans consume\u00a0 much more animal protein than the rest of the world. In fact, we consume nearly four times the global average. Greenhouse gases are also a major factor. Meat production produces significantly more greenhouse gases than vegetable production. This includes carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2003, Meatless Monday has become a global movement. It\u2019s now observed in 36 countries and continues to grow. For more information about Meatless Monday, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meatlessmonday.com\/favorite-recipes\/\"><strong>official website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15529\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/02\/Earth-Week-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, 4\/16 &#8211; Meatless Monday for Earth Week 2018 How might the world change if everyone were to consume 14% less meat? That\u2019s the idea behind Meatless Monday. Not only is going meatless one day a week helpful in reducing your risk of chronic preventable diseases, it also helps reduce your global footprint. The meat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":15529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16398"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16440,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16398\/revisions\/16440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}