August 31st, 2009

By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now

It’s recipe time! This week at our house we’re defaulting to our simple school time meals, eating faux hot dogs with local corn on the cob, bean and soy crumble tacos, and broccoli stir fry with tofu, as we strive to keep the protein in our veggie diet and still get the kids to athletic practices and club meetings.

But Diane Hatz, founder of Sustainable Table, has some more sophisticated solutions (but still easy, like goat cheese pizza and garbanzo bean burgers) in her blog, “Eat Less Meat — and enjoy it! — reprinted here:

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August 17th, 2009

By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now

I can’t improve on the article below by Diane Hatz, founder of Sustainable Table, who urges people to consider eating less meat, for their health and the planet and their budget.

I will say I was shocked at the figure she quotes for how much meat an American eats in a given year – 192 pounds of red meat, poultry and fish?!? Yowzer. If it’s really true that high meat consumption contributes to heart disease and cancer (and it is really true) then meat is the 200-pound elephant in the room.

We’re looking forward to Hatz’s next article.

From Diane Hatz:

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May 14th, 2009

By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now

Veggie advocates want American omnivores to adopt a day without meat. Well, some of them want us to just give up meat totally, but I’m talking about the Meatless Monday campaign here, which argues that if we’d cut out the steaks and pork chops on just this one day, we’d reduce the saturated fat that we consume and make a big dent in the greenhouse gas emissions produced by the livestock industry.

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