Ignite Sydney 2011: How a meat lover turned meatfree
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Ignite Events ask presenters to speak about something they're passionate about ... but there's a catch! Presenters must stick to a rigid format of 20 slides, each of which changes automatically after 15 seconds, giving a guaranteed 5 minute presentation. I presented in October 2011 on why I have adopted Meatfree Mondays ... and why you should try it too.
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Ignite Sydney 2011: How a meat lover turned meatfree
- 1. Meat-free Mondays Hannah Law
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- 5. Hands up.
- 6. Hands up.
- 7. Big planet, big problems
- 8. A 100 km flight or a kilo of ribs?
- 9. “sandal wearing tree huggers”
- 10. Caution: toxic
- 11. 8kg grain = 1kg meat
- 12. Imagine
- 13. Growing the money tree
- 14. In the too hard basket.
- 15. Meatfree Mondays Meatfree Mondays Meatfree Mondays
- 16. Celeb name-drop
- 17. Wannabe greenie.
- 18. Sign me up!
- 19. To fish or not to fish?
- 20. Poor Nemo.
- 21. One small meal for us, one giant result for mankind
- 22. A wish
- 25. Meat-free Mondays Hannah Law
Editor's Notes
- Hands up if you’re a meat-eater? Don’t be shy. I love a tender steak, chicken kebab, pork belly... Now (keep your) hands up if you like to consider yourself a bit of a greenie? Maybe you ride to work, have those energy-saving lightbulbs or eat local food etc.
- Unfortunately for those of us with our hands up being a meat-lover and wanting to do your bit for the environment don’t make a great couple.
- It’s just such a big question: how can we help our environment? Most people are really keen to do something small to help make the world a better place but, if you’re anything like me, you wonder how your small action even makes a difference? http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/440672445/sizes/o/in/photostream/
- Imagine for a moment if you could reduce carbon emissions that almost equates to a one hundred kilometre flight ... every single week! Would you do it? Well, Greenpeace reckons that that could be achieved if you ate 1kg less of beef each week. One small action, one pretty significant difference. http://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/109720836/the-Agency-Collection
- I was pretty surprised when I discovered that stat. Now I love meat, especially a good roast beef, and although I want to do my bit for the environment, I’m not, as Paul Keating would say, “muesli munching, sandal wearing tree huggers”. But that stat got me thinking about how what I eat is affecting the planet. http://www.flickr.com/photos/organictreeecodoll/5616647026/sizes/o/in/photostream/
- So I did some research; starting with this innocent looking guy. I’m an animal lover so this is hard for me to say but I discovered that he and all his mates are creating more greenhouse gas emissions than transport. Sounds unbelievable but I didn’t make it up; it’s from the UN. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecatoncheires/3720257787/sizes/z/in/photostream/
- But one of the other things I discovered that really tugged on my heart strings was that it takes 8 kg of grain, for instance, to produce 1kg of beef. Yet, it’s estimated about 800 million people on the planet suffer from hunger or malnutrition. Imagine if that 8kg of grain went towards feeding people instead of the cow that is about to turn into our steak.
- Next my research led me to discover that my beloved roast lamb is not even that good for me. There’s a pretty high correlation between excessive consumption of red meat and lifestyle diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and bowel and stomach cancer. And a European study even showed reducing your meat intake reduces can help lose weight. http://www.flickr.com/photos/carowallis1/3732987927/sizes/o/in/photostream/
- That made me start to think about how maybe I should cut down on my meat intake. Besides, I’d just moved out of home and meat is so expensive so it kind of solved 2 problems! I mean lamb cutlets are good, but $30 for a few tiny pieces of meat?! Fine when mum or dad is paying but not when I have to shell that cash out! http://www.flickr.com/photos/calamityundead/3382588777/sizes/z/in/photostream/
- As you can see, these problems of the environment, world famine and health are big problems. So if you’re a bit like me you just put them in the too-hard basket because how can anything you do will make a difference.
- That little something you can do is Meatfree Mondays. Meatfree Mondays encourages meat-eaters to go 'meatfree' one day a week. The idea being that if lots of people take this small step, it will have a significant impact on environmental sustainability. One small change done by a lot of small people can have one big difference.
- The Meatless Mondays movement was first launched in the US in 2003 to help Americans reduce their saturated fat. Then backed by Stella and Paul McCartney so it became famous and a bit more mainstream.
- I discovered Meatfree Mondays because I was a wannabe-greenie: basically I wanted to save the planet but didn’t know how and didn’t want to do anything that would change my lifestyle too much! At the end of the day, I was still putting my towels in the dryer because I liked them fluffy! http://www.flickr.com/photos/38112629@N06/5485944769/
- When I realisedMeatfree Mondays meant I could feel like I was making a difference and still have fluffy towels, I signed myself up straightaway! I started getting falafel wraps for lunch on Monday and having vegetarian risotto or Mexican for dinner.
- But in my eyes, I was being a great flexitarian... until one night when I was at a japanese restaurant and I ordered sushi. Now I’m from the meatfree Monday school-of-thought that says fish is not allowed on mondays.
- I had ordered the sushi so I ate it anyway. But later that night, I had a nightmare I was murdering fish by throwing broken glass into their pond. I’ve never eaten fish on a meatfree Monday again.
- It made me realise that Meatfree Mondays had a big impact on my life. And it occurred to me that if meatfreemondays has the power to impact my life so strongly, what could it do for the environment and our planet? For greenhouse gas emissions, world hunger and lifestyle diseases?
- I’m simply asking you to think about swapping your kebab for a falafel every Monday to reduce carbon emissions by the equivalent of a 100km plane ride. To go meat-free on a Monday to help solve problems like greenhouse gas emissions, food sustainability and famine. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alternatewords/2181295629/sizes/z/in/photostream/
- Because if we all made this small change for a year we could reduce carbon emissions by the equivalent of about 13 round the world aeroplane trips! Give or take a bit on my maths – it was never my strong point.
- But at the end of the day, I’m just a small girl, standing in front of a room, asking them to not eat meat one day each week to save our planet for our grandkids. A very small change for a very big world. http://www.flickr.com/photos/carbonnyc/991004550/sizes/l/in/photostream/