Mar 24 2009
Radio Show Host Richard Greene Launches Meatless Monday
This is hot off the press - or the airwave: Richard Greene, a radio show host on K-TALK AM 1150, has just asked all of his listeners to go meatless once a week every Monday. Whoo-hoo! What’s the reason? He cited that the number one cause for global warming is from cows. This is a fact that not everyone knows. The reason is that the gas that cows emit through the natural process of belching and passing gas is methane. Methane is a greenhouse that is 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide (or 72 times more potent over a 20 years span). What exactly does that mean? According to Richard Greene, that means that methane traps carbon dioxide 20 times more effectively than carbon dioxide itself. That is bad. What’s more, the meat diet waste a number of vital resources, like water, animal cruelty, economy, health, the unsustainability of the diet that may eventually lead to the destruction of our planet, and a bunch of other problems.
He even had David Cromwell on the show to talk about vegetarianism, spirituality, and Earth. David Cromwell is an actor who acted in the movie Babe (LA Confidential, Deep Impact). After his close interaction with the animals during the shooting, the guy went vegan. Wow. That’s pretty cool. During the show, Richard also revealed that he has been a vegetarian for 25 years. That’s pretty amazing!
Way to go, Richard! Thank you for launching Meatless Monday to help stop the climate change crisis. That’s a great start. Let’s join the campaign and go meatless on Mondays, everybody! 
