{"id":4165,"date":"2021-10-26T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ghshome\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2021-10-26T15:46:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:46:33","slug":"eco-committee-meatless-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ghshome\/2021\/10\/26\/eco-committee-meatless-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco Committee: Meatless Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday 1<sup>st<\/sup> November will be MEATLESS MONDAY in our school canteen! But don\u2019t worry our catering manager has been working on a delicious menu so that there will be plenty of tasty alternatives for you to enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Eating a meat based diet isn\u2019t great for the environment as animals \u2013 especially cows \u2013 create tonnes of methane each year<\/p>\n<p>Methane is one of the dangerous greenhouse gases responsible for climate change<\/p>\n<p>Eating meat amounts to 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Changing to a plant based diet \u2013 even just for one day a week \u2013 can really help reduce demand for meat &amp; therefore reduce the number of animals we farm<\/p>\n<p>Raising animals is also responsible for huge deforestation across the globe &#8211; so by giving up meat you can make such a difference to your carbon footprint since trees absorb CO2 \u2013 another dangerous greenhouse gas!<\/p>\n<p>We have compiled a digital recipe book based on tried and tested recommended recipes submitted by pupils and staff from Greenfaulds High School in support of our\u00a0<strong>Climate Emergency Action Week<\/strong>. It is available for free download here to help support families in switching to a plant based diet in an effort to reduce carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that you enjoy these delicious recipes and manage to substitute\u00a0<strong>at least one<\/strong>\u00a0of your meals each week with a meat free meal. Who knows, you may even manage to make the full switch to a plant based diet \u2013 saving your wallet, health AND our fabulous Planet!<\/p>\n<p>Everyone loves a food pic! So don\u2019t forget to enter our\u00a0<strong>Marvellous Meatless Meals food photography competition<\/strong>\u00a0by Tweeting a photo of your Marvellous Meat Free Meal to\u00a0<strong>@ghsecocommittee<\/strong>\u00a0and we\u2019ll retweet! Most likes = wins! Who knows who you\u2019ll inspire \u2013 saving the Planet from even more methane gas!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/ghshome\/uploads\/sites\/26302\/2021\/10\/26154555\/Marvellous-Meatless-Meals-Digital-Recipe-Book.pdf\">Click Here: GHS Marvellous Meatless Meals Digital Recipe Book<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday 1st November will be MEATLESS MONDAY in our school canteen! But don\u2019t worry our catering manager has been working on a delicious menu so that there will be plenty of tasty alternatives for you to enjoy! Eating a meat based diet isn\u2019t great for the environment as animals \u2013 especially cows \u2013 create tonnes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ghshome\/2021\/10\/26\/eco-committee-meatless-monday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eco Committee: Meatless Monday<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ghshome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ghshome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ghshome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ghshome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ghshome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ghshome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4167,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ghshome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions\/4167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ghshome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ghshome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/ghshome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}