WAM = Week-nights Aren’t Meat-nights
A couple of things up front for the haters:
- For those über-proud carnivores out there who, when they sense the faintest hint of vegetarianism in the air, instinctually feel the need to fire up the grill and sear a T-bone, put down the fork & tongs. Our message here is not “Eat less meat, Period”. Rather, it’s “Eat more vegetables! (and by extension, less meat)”.
- We’re not really interested in the discussion about the morality of meat consumption. It’s one of those endless and usually unproductive debates. There are plenty of practical reasons why eating less meat–and zero counts as less–is a great idea. We’d like to focus on those.
The Story of WAM
It all started with our first summer getting a CSA share from a local farm. WTF are are going to do with all these vegetables?, is a question frequently posed by many new CSA members. We’d succeeded in reducing the amount of stuff going bad in our refrigerator each week by more carefully planning a weekly meal menu and shopping list. But how does one deal with the unknown contents of a CSA produce box. There could be anything in there–and lots of it!
I don’t remember which of us came up with the idea, but it boils down to this:
- there’s no way the two of us can eat/cook all this unless we start eating more vegetables…
- I don’t want to get fat so we have to eat/cook less of something else…
- How about lets try just eating vegetables M-F and save the meet for the weekend?
If you eat meat, but would like to decrease your meat consumption it is time to get on the WamWagon! Simply commit to eating meat a few times a week and you will be doing your part to lessen your carbon footprint, your diet will reflect your environmental values and you will be eating healthier meals. In addition, you can make sure that the meat you buy is quality meat that is grass fed, where the animals are treated in a humane way and possibly local.
About WAM HQ
WAM is a collaboration between Jay and Jennifer who live together at WAM HQ in the Boston, MA area. They try to do their part to save the world by eating local as much as possible, recycling, using natural cleaning products, growing their own veggies with varying success, using a rain barrel, composting inside with a Worm bin and outside with a larger compost system and dreaming of ways to add solar panels and wind power to their lives.
