Celebs Support Meat Free Mondays
Damon Beard
Damon Beard is the executive producer and co-presenter the popular Afternoon Drive Show on East Coast Radio. He’s a well known face on television and the corporate circuit, a popular speaker and the author of the best selling Powerlunch Riddles. If he is not making you laugh, he’s tugging at your heart strings as he [...]
Grant Nash
Extracted from an interview by Robyn Leigh on 14 March 2010 at www.samen.co.za One would expect Grant Nash to be a man of many words – he is a 5FM jock after all. But this man of words has also become one of many good deeds. His CV names him ‘5FM’s Vegan Humanitarian’ and it [...]
Eduard Coetzee
Eduard Coetzee, born in Pretoria ( South Africa ), is a former South African rugby player. He plays Hooker and Prop for Biarritz Olympique. Eduard’s height is 1.81 m and weighs 120 kg . A brief view of Eduard’s rugby career: 2001 : Bulls 2001- 2005 : Sharks 2005- 2007 : Aviron Bayonnais Since 2007 [...]
The Parlotones
The Parlotones released their latest album, Stardust Galaxies, in South Africa on the 30th of October 2009. The album was released in Europe in June 2010. The band played alongside Black Eyed Peas, Alicia Keys, Shakira, John Legend and other African artists at the official FIFA World-Cup Kick Off celebration at Orlando Stadium in Soweto, [...]
Adele Segal – FHM Model
I was born and bred in Pretoria and have been a part of the modelling industry for the past 11 years. I’m the proud wife of Mr South Africa 2009. My own titles include Miss Rekord Show Queen 1998, I was 1 of 5 finalists for ELLE/GUESS face of year 1999, Miss Photogenic 2000, Miss [...]
Stephen Segal – Mr South Africa
I grew up in Durban where I loved to surf, kneeboard, do lifesaving, play water polo and rugby. I was very fortunate to represent my country (that I absolutely love) in three sports, in one of which I placed 3rd in the world. I am very much an outdoors person who loves people and life [...]
Lisa Raleigh – The Biggest Loser SA
Lisa Raleigh is a South African personal trainer best known for training the Blue Team on the e.tv reality competition television series The Biggest Loser South Africa, in 2008. Raliegh is qualified with various diplomas in personal training, exercise specialist (specialising in obesity, the elderly, kids, pregnancy and clients with injuries and disabilities), spinning instruction, [...]
Yuvraj Singh
Yuvraj Singh, born 12 December 1981 in a Jat family from Chandigarh, India is a cricketer from India, and the son of former Indian fast bowler and Punjabi movie star Yograj Singh. He has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 2000 (ODIs) and played his first Test match in 2003. He was [...]
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
