Eat Less Meat

I've been doing this for years -- i.e., treating meat as a condiment, not as a main course -- and it makes a very big difference for me, health-wise. Also, it's cheaper. :)

I don't really see how the environmentally minded can eat most meat in this day and age.

Meat eating and ignorance

Reasons for vegetarianism

I noticed that you followed up a post about eating lower on the (sea)food chain with a post on cutting out meat, presumably mostly cow/chicken/pig. But strictly based on food chain placement, isn't land-based meat about the lowest you can go without going vegetarian? I know there are complications based on really bad factory farming practices, but simply replacing seafood with beef I would assume would move us down the food chain significantly, so that for instance a steak dinner would be similar to a little smoked salmon on a bagel... I read a while ago (maybe on this blog?) about comparing catching tuna to catching tigers, and that we have a bit of a mental disconnect because once we pull a fish out of the water it's completely out of it's element and not nearly as dangerous. I think that if we compare meat coming out of the ocean to meat coming off the land, based solely on environmental concerns, land-based meat is considerably better.