 The environment minister Mirela Holy, Croatia, has agreed to sign her
department up to the campaign to highlight the significant impact that the livestock
industry is having on the environment through the
generation of harmful greenhouse gases.
Read full text here (Meat Free Monday, 06 March, 2012)
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Lin Tsong-ming, Taiwan’s deputy minister of education, has received an
award from the United Nations
for his work promoting meat-free
eating in this country. He was given the
Sustainable Development World
Pilot Hero Award by members of the UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Read full text here (Meat Free Monday, 13 Fabruary, 2012)
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 In 2006, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization's
report, Livestock’s Long Shadow, has highlighted the environmental impact of
meat-eating and the importance of making more environmentally conscious food choices. Some later, in 2009, Paul, Stella and Mary McCartney have launched in the UK the Meat Free Monday campaign as simple and straightforward idea to show everyone the value of eating less meat, and to make it easier for us all to do so.
Currenrly, this simple idea has grown into an international movement
Meatless Monday that includes more than 20 countries.
Paul McCartney is also well known for his other environmental and animal rights activities.
For your information.
Food Climate Research Network suggests that food production is responsible for 20-30 percent of global green house gas emissions and livestock
production is responsible for around half of these emissions.
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