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April 20, 2009

 

Recipe

Tasty Tabouli Salad

Earth Day is April 22nd, but every day is the perfect time to enjoy a

healthy vegan meal. Since raising animals for food contributes more to global

warming than all transportation combined, eating a plant-based diet demonstrates

our respect for the Earth. Tabouli is a Middle Eastern salad that pairs well

with hummus, carrots, olives, sliced apples and whole wheat pita bread. This

recipe features bulgur, a nutritious quick-cooking form of whole wheat that's

similar to rice and couscous.

 

 

Ingredients:

 

2 cups bulgur

2 cups boiling water

1/2  tsp. sea salt

1/3  cup lemon juice

1/4  cup extra virgin olive oil

4 cloves garlic, minced

1 shallot, finely diced

8 scallions

(spring onions), finely chopped

2 cucumbers, peeled, seeded & diced

1 packed cup fresh parsley, finely chopped

1 packed cup fresh cilantro, finely chopped

1 packed cup fresh mint, finely chopped

3 red tomatoes, diced

 

 

Directions:

 

Pour bulgur wheat into large bowl with salt and add boiling water; stir to

dissolve salt, then cover bowl with plastic wrap; put into refrigerator until

completely cooled (about an hour).

Make dressing in a glass measuring cup by whisking together olive oil,

garlic, and lemon juice; set aside until vegetables and herbs are cleaned,

chopped and measured.

Once wheat is cooled, add prepared herbs, vegetables, dressing and toss

together; add more lemon juice and salt to suite your taste.

 

Hint: This salad is best eaten within 24 hours after mixing in the herbs and

veggies.

For this and other earth-friendly recipes, visit www.chezbettay.com!

 

 

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environment

Climate Benefits of Diet Change

It’s no secret that plant-based eating reduces your carbon footprint. When

you look at the overall global warming picture, you’ll see that animal

agriculture is responsible

for 18% of greenhouse gas emissions and 80% of total land use. The Netherlands

Environmental Assessment Agency investigated the impact on climate change of

switching to a plant-based diet. They found the switch could have a dramatic

impact on land use in addition to substantially reduced nitrous oxide emissions.

Transitioning to a veg diet would allow vast agricultural areas of pasture

and cropland to regrow as forest, soaking up large amounts of CO2, in

combination with a reduction of methane and N2O emissions, mitigating the costs

of climate change by 50-to-70% compared to a diet-as-usual scenario.

The agency concluded that dietary changes could substantially benefit human

health, global land use, and play an important role in future climate change

mitigation policies. Elke Stehfest of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment

Agency presented “Climate Benefits of Changing Diet†at the Copenhagen

Climate Congress and published in

the February issue of Climate Change.

To download a free preview of the article, click here!

 

 

Inspiration

Confessions from a Meat Lover

Mike Tidwell admits to loving meat. And that’s why he’s our

inspiration… he has made a conscious choice to NOT eat meat or other animal

products because of global warming and wrote all about it in his Audubon

Magazine editorial, The Low-Carbon

Diet. He discusses his many reasons, one of them being his 11-year-old son whose

future is rapidly unraveling due to global warming.

Director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Mike also addresses the

myth that vegetarianism is a tough lifestyle change (harder than changing light

bulbs or buying a better car), and how having been a vegan for several years

now, he knows first-hand how easy, satisfying and of course healthy it really

is. He even brings up the inconvenient truth about meat and dairy products: If

you eat them, regardless of

their origin and how they were produced, you significantly contribute to the

global warming problem. Period.

To find out more about Mike, click here!

 

 

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