Mark Bittman Gives Advice For The Flexitarian
Written by Vegetarian Star on August 2nd, 2009 in Authors, Flexitarian, Food & Drink.
Hey you flexitarians out there!
Congratulations for the making the choice to improve your health, save animals, and lessen the environmental impact of the livestock industry on planet Earth.
New York Times columnist and food writer Mark Bittman, who’s been advocating a vegan until dinner type approach, has given the UK Times online some tips for those who want to cut the meat from their diet.
“My ‘vegan before 6pm’ approach is just one way of doing it. Indeed, the opposite schedule — eating your heaviest meal of the day for lunch or breakfast — may make more sense to you,” Bittman said. “You can opt out of two servings of meat a week. You can start the day with oatmeal instead of bacon and eggs. My guess is that 70% of my calories now come from non-animal sources. A shift of 50% would be significant for anyone.”
“The basic line is this: no matter how you do it, you [and the planet] will benefit if you eat a higher proportion of plants and a lower proportion of everything else.”
Visit the Times online to read an excerpt from Mark’s book, Food Matters, where Mark recommends taking a B vitamin supplement and gives sample meal plans.
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August 2nd, 2009 at 7:47 pm
This advice is great for reducing meat consumption, but I think he should advocate trying different fake meats to replace real ones.
For those obsessed meat fans, fake meats may be just the trick to get them to stop eating some types of animals (e.g. burgers) when lentils, beans, and other plant proteins just won’t do the trick.