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From our friends at Healthy Monday…

As the highly regarded new movie Food, Inc. makes clear, Meatless Monday is not only good for your health – it’s one of the top ten actions every one of us can take to help create a better, more sustainable food system.

Food, Inc., which opens nationwide this week, aims to inform us about what we’re really getting – and buying into – when we shop for food. Covering issues from factory farming to the organic food business, worker rights and agribusiness lobbying in the halls of Congress, the movie paints a complex picture of our food system.

As The Chicago Tribune’s Julie Deardorff wrote last week, one of the best things about Food, Inc. is that “it sends us all home with something important to do.” Prominent on that list is “Meatless Mondays—Go without meat one day a week. An estimated 70 percent of all antibiotics used in the United States are given to farm animals,” according to the producers.

We couldn’t agree more. Eating less meat, even forgoing it just one day a week, can have profoundly beneficial effects for our environment as well as our health. Less meat equals fewer carbon emissions, reduced water use, a healthier heart, and less use and consumption of unnecessary antibiotics.

Further demonstrating that green minds think alike and that the Meatless phenomenon is growing, just across the pond today, as Meatless Monday launched its new website design, Sir Paul McCartney, along with daughters Stella and Mary, unveiled a new Meat Free Monday campaign to highlight exactly what’s at stake with the world’s out of control meat consumption.

So help your planet and your body by going meatless one day a week and inform your mind by going to see Food, Inc!

Download the postcard for Food, Inc. with its suggestions for a better, more sustainable relationship with food, here.