Celebs Support Meat Free Mondays
Jeremy eats meat less than four times a week
Well known for his work on radio and television, South African personality Jeremy Mansfield and his wife, Jacqui, a best-selling author, support Meat Free Mondays. The pair is also well known for their Zhoozsh cook books. Both believe a vegetarian lifestyle is healthier, more compassionate and benefits everyone and everything; people, animals and the planet. [...]
Patricia Glyn
Patricia Glyn is a familiar face and voice to South African audiences, having been in broadcasting for 15 years. On radio she’s remembered best for “Patricia’s People” – a programme which profiled the great explorers, scientists, historians and eccentrics of the world. On TV, she’s hosted many different shows, among them the controversial documentary series [...]
Lisa Bloom
Host of her own national live daily talk show on Court TV for eight years, Lisa is now a regular legal analyst on CBS News, CNN and HLN, appearing frequently on The Early Show, The Insider, Dr. Phil, Anderson Cooper 360, The Situation Room, Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell and many other shows.
Mary-Ann Shearer
Mary-Ann Shearer is the best-selling health-author in the Southern Hemisphere! (she has sold over 190,000 copies of her books to date!) Her book, “The Natural Way – a Family’s guide to Vibrant Health” formed the foundation of a series of books that have helped thousands of folk around the world. Her two recipe books “Recipe [...]
Tové Kane
Tové Kane is a popular, award winning entertainment professional with over twenty years experience working on radio, TV, in studio and on stage as an MC, actress and singer. People warm to her: she’s sincere, intelligent, funny, and has an engaging personality. Tové has won several awards in the areas of entertainment and child protection, [...]
Ravi R
Ravi R’s hosts The Real Alternative show from 10 – 1 during the weekends on Durban’s No1. radio station, ECR. Ravi’s keen ear for music is well suited to his show, as a weekend show, it’s the perfect opportunity to play lots of great music, combined with fantastic giveaways and competitions. Sundays are typically laid [...]
Donnalee Roberts
The South African Actress and Model Donnalee Roberts grew up in Witbank and from there moved to Pretoria. Graduated in 2006 from the University of Pretoria with a BA Drama Degree. Donnalee was blessed to be able to do charity work as Tukkies “Joolkoningin” in 2006. She did an additional two year film school course [...]
Jodi-Ann Pearton
Twenty-six year old Jodi-Ann graduated from Silwood Kitchen, one of South Africa’s oldest culinary training schools, achieving in her first and second years of study what many never achieve in three, including a variety of Top Student Awards of Excellence and the Lesley Faull prize for cooking amongst many, many others. To work and achieve [...]
Kerishnie Naiker
Kerishnie Naiker was born in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. She attained an Honours Degree in Pharmacy (B.Pharm) and practised as a senior pharmacist in hospital and retail pharmacy. Kerishnie was studying towards a Masters in Pharmacy (M.Pharm), researching “The Social and Behavioural Factors Affecting Tuberculosis in South Africa, in 1997 when she was crowned Miss [...]
David von Hoesslin
David von Hoesslin is a former Springbok and Sharks scrumhalf. David was born in Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa. He attended Diocesan College (Bishops), Stellenbosch University. He weighs 85kg’s and is 1.72m tall. David has played most of his professional Rugby for Natal Sharks (59 Caps) although he had a season on loan to the [...]
Facts & Figures
- Compare the Carbon Footprint of a Vegan Burger to a Beef Burger
Did you know that if everyone in the world made a simple switch from a selected meat-based meal to meat analog meal saves a total of over 26 billion tons of CO2-eq
Find the relevant report in the NEWS section below- Based on German research, its been calculated
Based on German research, its been calculated that “A vegan driving an SUV is more ecofriendly than a meat-eater riding a bicycle.” The contribution to global warming is just part of the problem with livestock. The same Dutch study found that livestock occupy 80% of total human land in use. A colossal amount of water is spent maintaining pasture for grazing, which could be far more efficiently used to grow food crops. And according to the FAO report, livestock emissions produce 64% of all human-induced ammonia into the atmosphere, one of the main causes of acid rain, which damages crops, and is almost always blamed on industry and transport.
- Having meat free days
Having meat free days or going vegetarian has many health benefits:
REDUCE HEART DISEASE: Recent data from a Harvard University study found that replacing saturated fat-rich foods (eg. meat and full fat dairy) with foods that are rich in polyunsaturated fat (eg. vegetable oils, nuts and seeds) reduces the risk of heart disease by 19%.
FIGHT DIABETES: Research suggests that a higher consumption of red and processed meat increases the risk of type 2 diabetes.
CURB OBESITY: People on low-meat or vegetarian diets have significantly lower body weights and body mass indices. A recent study from Imperial College London also found that reducing overall meat consumption can prevent long-term weight gain.
LIVE LONGER: Red and processed meat consumption is associated with modest increases in total mortality, cancer mortality and cardiovascular disease mortality.
IMPROVE YOUR DIET. Consuming beans or peas results in higher intakes of fibre, protein, zinc, iron and magnesium and lower intakes of saturated fat and total fat.
- By going vegetarian or having meat free days
By going vegetarian or having meat free days you will help:
- Avoid excessive CO2 production,
- Reduce methane/nitrous oxide production,
- Save large amounts of water,
- Avoid polluting our streams/rivers/oceans,
- Reduce destruction of topsoil & tropical rainforest,
- Reduce the destruction of wildlife habitats & endangered species,
- Reduce the use of antibiotics, growth promoters and chemicals
- Most of us eat more meat
Most of us eat more meat and other protein rich foods than we need to stay healthy.
In 2007 the World Cancer Research Fund report recommended limiting the consumption of red meats such as beef, pork ad lamb because of a ‘convincing’ link with colorectal cancer. Links have also been found between high meat diets and obesity and heart disease.
Remember also that climate change is a threat to our future health. As the world warms up it is likely that levels of air pollution, and thus allergies and respiratory diseases, will rise, as will the rate of infectious diseases
