Happy World Vegetarian Awareness Month!

From New Album 10/20/08 6:43 PM

I'm a little late on this but every year, October 1st kicks off World Vegetarian Awareness Month. This month let's celebrate life, health, and compassion!!! The simple act of choosing vegetarian meals is a powerful force for positive change — impacting ourselves, other people, animals and our Earth. Celebrating this month will be a fun way to help everyone learn about the benefits of vegetarianism, which include (taken from http://worldvegetarianday.org/index.htm):

• reducing the risk of major killers like heart disease, stroke and cancers while cutting exposure to food borne pathogens;
• offering a viable answer to feeding the world's hungry, through more efficient use of grains and other crops;
• saving animals from suffering in factory farm conditions and from painful slaughter;
• conserving vital, but limited freshwater, fertile topsoil and other precious resources;
• preserving irreplaceable ecosystems, such as rainforests and other wildlife habitats;
• mitigating the ever-expanding environmental pollution of animal agriculture; and the list goes on.

So, have a great October! Experiment with a new meatless meal and eat A LOT of veggies!!! Yeah, veggies!

FYI: The picture above is of our CSA share, this week. I love fall!