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で観ることもできます。 Graham Hill: Why I'm a weekday vegetarian
【要約】
１．なぜ私はベジタリアンではないのか
ヒッピー世代の両親に丸太小屋で育てられ、環境保全サイトを立ち上げた。しかし、畜産業と肉食のもたらす悪い側面を理解しているにもかかわらず、わたし自身はベジタリアンではない。
２．その理由は「二者択一」の考え方
「肉食主義者」か、それとも「菜食主義者」か、決意できないからだ。
３．第三の解決法
月～金はベジタリアン（週５日の菜食主義）で、土日は好きなものを食べて良いという生活をする。
４．平日ベジタリアンの良いところ
環境への負荷は低下
環境汚染抑止にも貢献
動物への罪悪感も減少
お金の節約
健康になり体重も減る
５．私たち全員が食べる肉の量を半分にしたならば、
計算上、人口の半数がベジタリアンになったのと同じことだ。
mere ：ほんの、単なる、普通の
cruelty ：残酷なこと
hypocritically ：偽善的に
emission ：二酸化炭素排出
tuck into ：ガツガツ食べる、口に押し込む
stall ：行き詰る、ずるずると後回しにする
binary solution ：二者択一
taste buds ：味覚、嗜好
nothing with a face ：
culprit ：罪人
footprint ：個人別の二酸化炭素の排出量のことをこう呼ぶようです
pocketbook ：財布
【transcript】
About a year ago, I asked myself a question: "Knowing what I know, why am I not a vegetarian?" After all, I'm one of the green guys: I grew up with hippie parents in a log cabin. I started a site called TreeHugger -- I care about this stuff. I knew that eating a mere hamburger a day can increase my risk of dying by a third. Cruelty: I knew that the 10 billion animals we raise each year for meat are raised in factory farm conditions that we, hypocritically, wouldn't even consider for our own cats, dogs and other pets. Environmentally, meat, amazingly, causes more emissions than all of transportation combined: cars, trains, planes, buses, boats, all of it. And beef production uses 100 times the water that most vegetables do.
I also knew that I'm not alone. We as a society are eating twice as much meat as we did in the 50s. So what was once the special little side treat now is the main, much more regular. So really, any of these angles should have been enough to convince me to go vegetarian. Yet, there I was -- chk, chk, chk -- tucking into a big old steak.
So why was I stalling? I realized that what I was being pitched was a binary solution. It was either you're a meat eater or you're a vegetarian, and I guess I just wasn't quite ready. Imagine your last hamburger. (Laughter) So my common sense, my good intentions, were in conflict with my taste buds. And I'd commit to doing it later, and not surprisingly, later never came. Sound familiar?
So I wondered, might there be a third solution? And I thought about it, and I came up with one. I've been doing it for the last year, and it's great. It's called weekday veg. The name says it all: Nothing with a face Monday through Friday. On the weekend, your choice. Simple. If you want to take it to the next level, remember, the major culprits in terms of environmental damage and health are red and processed meats. So you want to swap those out with some good, sustainably harvested fish. It's structured, so it ends up being simple to remember, and it's okay to break it here and there. After all, cutting five days a week is cutting 70 percent of your meat intake.
The program has been great, weekday veg. My footprint's smaller, I'm lessening pollution, I feel better about the animals, I'm even saving money. Best of all, I'm healthier, I know that I'm going to live longer, and I've even lost a little weight.
So, please ask yourselves, for your health, for your pocketbook, for the environment, for the animals: What's stopping you from giving weekday veg a shot? After all, if all of us ate half as much meat, it would be like half of us were vegetarians.
Thank you.