Look! Eating veggie style gives you a happy face, and heres the picture to prove it.

Stacia Briggs Monday, January 12, 2015 2:49 PM

Apparently, one of the most popular New Years resolutions for 2015 is for people keen to eat less meat.

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I would desperately struggle with this resolution not because I am an offal-guzzling carnivore, but because I havent eaten meat or fish for more than 30 years. To eat less would involve having some kind of netting fitted to my mouth to prevent kamikaze spiders and insects flying down my gullet.

While I dont eat things with a face or food that had parents, I do, however, wear leather (not all over. I am not Bonnie Tyler) so am a hypocritical vegetarian, although if youd lived through the summer of 1993 living with a plastic-shoe wearing vegan, youd understand. Anyway, you lot have eaten the cow, the least I can do is honour its life by, er, using it as a lovely bag.

There are lots of reasons why people should eat less meat if the world ate 15 per cent less meat, which means abstaining from flesh for one day a week, it would mean the environmental equivalent of taking 240 million cars off the road each year. And as long as one of those cars isnt either of mine, I am completely down with that.

January is also the most popular month for people to ditch meat and fish entirely and come over to the green side, so with this mind, I have compiled a list of essential things you need to know if you want to become a vegetarian. Say goodbye to meals out that dont involve extensive Googling of menus beforehand, bid farewell to marshmallows and the best Haribo and hello to a longer life, better sex, more room in the freezer for ice-cream, less chance of food poisoning and less guilt about the environment, the supply of fossil fuel (it takes more than eight times as much fuel to produce meat protein as plant protein) and super-viruses.

Being a vegetarian isnt a mistake, its only a missed steak.

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