Mondays without meat?

What’s Cracking Good — Meat Free Mondays (maybe?)

My husband and I have talked about going vegetarian for years,  but the idea of giving up our favorite ethnic food leaves us feeling both resentful and forlorn.

I’ve considered following the “If I can kill it, I can eat it” principle.

I already don’t eat a lot of pork or beef. How hard could it be to kill a chicken?

If you’ve watched a farmer shove a chicken in a metal cone and slit its throat in Food, Inc, you’ll see that it might not be so easy.

Go ahead, call me a hypocrite.  I’m sure if I had to kill my own food, I’d be a vegetarian. And considering I already have lactose issues — that would mean I’d have to be vegan. As someone who thoroughly enjoys food, that thought makes me very, very sad.

A while back, I received a GOOP email (yes, I subscribe to Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP email) which talked about  the dangers of the livestock industry and Paul McCartney’s group, Meat Free Monday.

One day a week. I could probably swing that. So I proposed it to my husband.
“Sure,” was his reply.

A day a week sans meat. We can do that.

For more info: MeatFreeMondays.com