Dear Editor:
With the onset of 2003, millions of Americans will be making the traditional health-centered New Year’s resolutions: to exercise more, to lose weight, to quite smoking…
This year, let’s expand our sights and our hopes beyond our own health to the health of our family, our natural environment, including the animals and our planet Earth. In short, let us think globally as we act locally.
Amazingly, each of us can accomplish all that three times a day, by switching from meat and daily products to convenient, wholesome, delicious, plant-based foods. In addition to the highly recommended five servings of fresh fruits and vegetables, every supermarket now carries soy-based deli slices, veggie burgers and dogs, heat-and-eat dinners, as well as soy milk and ice cream.
On the first day of the NewYear let us turn over a new leaf, kick the meat habit and get a new lease on our own life as well as the life of our planet.
Alison Gottlieb