Eating less meat is easy – when you think about it

The Spinoff Daily, Friday October 14

Oct 14

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Today on The Spinoff, Don Rowe meets a couple using TikTok to fight for animal rights and a fairer Aotearoa, Sam Brooks becomes a rugby fan and the NZ Drug Foundation’s Sarah Helm explains why our government should follow the United States’ lead on decriminalising cannabis.

But first, a plant-eater responds to a meat-eater’s struggles to get his family to eat a plant-based diet.

Nate Ridley writes: “My Sunday morning was full of talk about vegetables. That’s not unusual – that day is when my partner and I plan our meals for the week. But it had been made extra spicy by having just read Chris Schulz’s story about trying to get his family to eat a plant-based diet for one week.

Seeing our way of eating presented as well-meaning but ultimately kind of gross and too difficult to maintain was, frankly, annoying. The truth is, as with most things, eating mostly plants can be great, but it might require employing a little brain power at first to get out of old habits and ways of thinking.”

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