Tip from the Creation Care Ministry
We can all do our part to save the planet one meal at a time. How? By eating less meat.
"No
politician wants to be the one to break the news that sooner than
later, for the health of the planet, most of us are going to have to
learn to eat a whole lot less meat,” writes food editor, Bee Wilson in How to Make a Nation of Meat Eaters Crave the Humble Bean, an essay that ran in The New York Times August 12 as part of What to Eat on a Burning Planet, a series exploring bold ideas to secure our food supply.
Wilson's
smart and hopeful piece concludes, "If anyone tells you Americans will
never enjoy beans as much as they do meat, think of just a few of the
once little-known foods, from pesto to tofu and gochujang, that have
been welcomed gratefully onto American tables in recent decades. The
more new plant foods a person learns to enjoy, the less room there is on
the plate for hamburgers."
Merry
Wheaton, a member of All Saints' Creation Care Ministry, suggests this
refreshing salad for lunch or dinner, “because it’s just too blasted hot
to cook!”
Toss together watermelon,
strawberries, feta cheese, olives, and spearmint. For more protein, add a
scoop of cottage cheese on the side or take 5 minutes to toast some sliced or
slivered almonds in a skillet and sprinkle them on top. Yummy without
any dressing but also good with a touch of Brianna’s Rich Poppyseed
Dressing or your dressing of choice.
Do you have a plant-based recipe you’d like to share with the parish? Make it, take your own photo and send to Merry Wheaton, [email protected]
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