eric
May 20th, 2009
May 20th, 2009
Ghent Belgium – First City Goes Vegetarian One Day a Week
A poster advertising “Veggie Day” shows a sailor rowing an aubergine
This is simply an amazing story. An entire city in Belgium is now going vegetarian one day a week. All civil servants and public officials have elected to go veg one day a week to reduce their carbon footprint. Eventually they plan to roll this out to the schools in September. Great job Ghent, you set the example for others to follow. Bravo!
read the story on BBC
Thank you to our long time friend and wannaveg supporter, Cary Canning for sending us the good news.
Author Information - During his spare time Eric writes for and maintains wannaveg.com. For his day job he works for an electronics company in San Diego, CA. Eric has been a vegetarian for about 10 years and believes that going 'green' and reducing meat consumption go hand-in-hand. 
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I certainly love the idea of going vegetarian for some time. And much more I love the graphic. I’m sure a lot of attention can be called on with the graphic it self.
The intention of this is to, as a city, recognize the impact that the raising and processing and consuming of livestock has on the environment. The United Nations says livestock is responsible for nearly one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions
Citizens of Ghent still have the option to eat meat on “veggie day.” However, as Balthazar explains, the main menu on these days at city schools and many restaurants will be meatless, and the alternative menu will contain meat.
Hi, I would like to hook you up with ppl who run this initiative http://www.veggiethursday.sg. I would be happy if you could, if not yet have, alias with them. Pls mention me if it comes to this subject. Good luck for all of us.
great article, better to be eating green vegetables than other non-vegtables as you know your going to be green and healthy.
such a healthy article, going green is the best! i just love eating fruit and veg feel so alive
great post going green is the way to a healthy furture and life.