Why I'm a weekday vegetarian | Graham Hill

Translator: Imanol Oteiza Reviewer: Jone Aliri Lazcano

Duela urtebete inguru,

zera galdetu nion neure buruari:

About a year ago,

"Dakidana jakinda,

I asked myself a question:

zergatik ez naiz begetarianoa?"

"Knowing what I know,

Azken finean,

why am I not a vegetarian?"

ingurumenak axola dit:

Guraso hippy bik hazi ninduten egurrezko etxola batean.

After all, I'm one of the green guys:

I grew up with hippie parents in a log cabin.

"TreeHugger" izeneko web-orria sortu nuen.

I started a site called TreeHugger --

Kontu horiek axola didate.

Banekien egunean hanburgesa bakarra jate hutsak

I care about this stuff.

hiltzeko arriskua heren batean handitzen zuela.

I knew that eating a mere hamburger a day

can increase my risk of dying by a third.

Krudelkeria:

banekien urtero haragitarako hazitako

Cruelty: I knew that the 10 billion

10 mila milioi animalia

industria-abeltegietako baldintzetan hazten ditugula.

animals we raise each year for meat

Hipokritak gara baldintza horiek, ez ditugulako nahi

are raised in factory farm conditions

gure katu, txakur edo bestelako maskotentzat.

that we, hypocritically, wouldn't even consider

for our own cats, dogs and other pets.

Harrigarriki,

haragia ekoizteak gehiago kutsatzen du

Environmentally, meat, amazingly,

garraio guztiek batera baino:

causes more emissions

autoak, trenak, hegazkinak, autobusak, itsasontziak, guztiak.

than all of transportation combined:

cars, trains, planes, buses, boats, all of it.

Behikiak ekoizteko, 100 aldiz ur gehiago behar da

And beef production uses 100 times the water

barazki gehienak hazteko baino.

that most vegetables do.

Bakarra ez nintzela ere banekien.

I also knew that I'm not alone.

Gizarte gisa,

50. hamarkadan jaten genuen haragi kopurua bikoiztu dugu;

We as a society

are eating twice as much meat

as we did in the 50s.

garai batean noizbehinkako gutizia zena

ohikoagoa eta plater nagusia da egun.

So what was once the special little side treat

Egiatan, arrazoi horiek

now is the main, much more regular.

begetariano izateko konbentzitu behar nindukete.

So really, any of these angles

should have been enough to convince me to go vegetarian.

Halere, mauka-mauka ari nintzen

haragi-xerra eder bat jaten.

Yet, there I was -- chk, chk, chk --

Zerk eragozten zidan baina?

tucking into a big old steak.

Konturatu nintzen

So why was I stalling?

aldebiko irtenbidea aurkeztu zidatela.

I realized that what I was being pitched

Bietako bat:

haragijalea zara,

was a binary solution.

ala begetarianoa.

It was either

you're a meat eater or you're a vegetarian,

Eta uste dut orduan ez nengoela guztiz prest.

Imajinatu:

and I guess I just wasn't quite ready.

zure azken hanburgesa.

(Barreak)

Imagine your last hamburger.

(Laughter)

Zentzua

eta nire borondate ona

So my common sense,

dastamen-papilen arerio nituen.

my good intentions,

"Gerora" egingo nuela hitzeman nuen,

were in conflict with my taste buds.

And I'd commit to doing it later,

eta, nola ez, ez nuen inoiz egin.

Ezaguna egiten al zaizue?

and not surprisingly, later never came.

Zera pentsatu nuen:

Sound familiar?

ba ote zen hirugarren aukerarik?

So I wondered,

Hausnartu eta erantzun bat topatu nuen.

might there be a third solution?

Azken urtean, hori egiten aritu naiz.

And I thought about it, and I came up with one.

Aparta da.

"Astegunetako begetariano" du izena.

I've been doing it for the last year, and it's great.

Izenak berak dio:

It's called weekday veg.

astelehenetik ostiralera, haragirik ez.

The name says it all:

Asteburuan, aukeran.

Nothing with a face Monday through Friday.

On the weekend, your choice.

Erraza da.

Harago joan nahi izanez gero,

Simple.

gogoan izan: kaltegarrienak,

If you want to take it to the next level,

ingurumenari eta osasunari erreparatuta,

remember, the major culprits

haragi gorri eta prozesatuak direla.

in terms of environmental damage and health

Horren ordez, hautatu

are red and processed meats.

modu jasangarrian hazitako arraina.

So you want to swap those out

Arauturik dago.

with some good, sustainably harvested fish.

Beraz, gogoratzen erraza da,

It's structured,

ez da larria noizbehinka jaramonik ez egitea.

so it ends up being simple to remember,

Astean bost egunez haragirik ez jatea

and it's okay to break it here and there.

kontsumoa %70 murriztea da.

After all, cutting five days a week

"Astegunetako begetariano" programa aparta izan da.

is cutting 70 percent of your meat intake.

Ingurumen-inpaktua txikitu

The program has been great, weekday veg.

eta gutxiago kutsatzen dut,

My footprint's smaller,

animaliengatik hobe sentitu,

I'm lessening pollution,

eta aurrezten ari naiz.

I feel better about the animals,

Onena zera da:

osasuntsuago nago,

I'm even saving money.

eta badakit luzeago biziko naizela.

Best of all, I'm healthier,

Apur bat ere argaldu naiz.

I know that I'm going to live longer,

and I've even lost a little weight.

Mesedez,

izan kontuan

zuen osasuna,

So, please ask yourselves,

dirua,

for your health,

ingurumena eta animaliak.

for your pocketbook,

Zerk eragozten dizu saiatzea?

for the environment, for the animals:

Azken finean,

What's stopping you from giving weekday veg a shot?

denek jaten dugun haragia erdira murriztuko bagenu,

After all, if all of us

gutakoen erdia begetariano litzateke.

ate half as much meat,

it would be like half of us

Mila esker.

(Txaloak)

were vegetarians.

Thank you.

(Applause)