We instituted a weekly vegetarian night a few years ago in an effort to eat more veggies and decrease our consumption of animals. While intellectually I'd love to be a vegetarian on a full-time basis, because I do think we treat our food animals poorly and they contribute to global warming with their methane emissions, unfortunately, I'm a carnivore at heart. Therefore, I thought maybe following my intellectual ideals for at least one night a week might be a positive change.

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