Join Macao Friends in Responding: Meat-Free Mondays! Eat Vegetarian Every Monday for Internal and External Environmental Protection!

Green Monday is a Hong Kong-based non-profit social enterprise founded on World Earth Day (April 22) in 2012, dedicated to promoting a weekly vegetarian day. Through collaborations with chain restaurants, lifestyle specialty stores, hotels, universities, primary and secondary schools, hospitals, and various enterprises, it introduces meat-free menus, vegetarian cooking classes, health talks, and more. The initiative promotes a vegetarian and eco-friendly lifestyle every Monday in Hong Kong, encouraging the public to join the 'Green Monday' movement in multiple ways.

Mission

To promote a healthy, environmentally friendly, low-carbon lifestyle, encouraging the public to start with life's details. The slogan is 'Green Monday,' beginning with the practice of meat-free eating on Mondays and expanding to broader aspects such as recycling, cherishing resources, and returning to nature, thereby spreading environmental and health messages from multiple angles.

Since its establishment, Green Monday has received support from numerous public figures in society, including government officials like Christine Loh, Florence Hui, and Bernard Chan, as well as artists, media professionals, businessmen, and chefs.

Vegetarianism and Environmental Protection

Encouraging vegetarianism to combat global warming:

• One person switching to a vegetarian diet for one day can reduce 4.1 kg of CO2, equivalent to the CO2 absorption of 180–360 trees in one day.
• One person switching to a vegetarian diet for one year equals the CO2 emissions saved from not using household water, electricity, and gas for an entire year.

Environmental groups have established the 'Vegetarian Diet Anti-Warming Alliance,' encouraging people to eat more vegetables and less meat to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and the consumption of grains used for raising animals. Environmental groups state that eating less meat can also alleviate the food crisis. Producing one kilogram of beef requires eight kilograms of grain, while producing one kilogram of pork requires three kilograms of grain feed. Reducing meat consumption can decrease the consumption of grain feed.

The livestock industry relies on pasture and feed to raise animals, causing the gradual reduction of original forest areas and accelerating global warming. Producing animal products consumes a large amount of energy, whereas producing crops hardly depletes energy. The greenhouse gas emissions from crop production are only about 3% of those from animal products. Not eating meat for one day per person can reduce seven kilograms of CO2 emissions.

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