Why I'm a weekday vegetarian | Graham Hill

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About a year ago,

Prije otprilike godinu dana,

I asked myself a question:

postavio sam si pitanje:

"Knowing what I know,

"Znajući ono što znam

why am I not a vegetarian?"

zašto nisam vegetarijanac?"

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

Nakon svega, ja sam jedan od "zelenih".

I grew up with hippie parents in a log cabin.

Odrastao sam s hipi roditeljima u brvnari.

I started a site called TreeHugger --

Pokrenuo sam web stranicu Treehugger (grlitelj drveta).

I care about this stuff.

Stalo mi je do tih stvari.

I knew that eating a mere hamburger a day

Znam kako jedan hamburger dnevno

can increase my risk of dying by a third.

povećava moj rizik od umiranja za trećinu.

Cruelty: I knew that the 10 billion

Okrutnost, znao sam kako se 10 milijardi

animals we raise each year for meat

životinja uzgaja zbog mesa,

are raised in factory farm conditions

one odrastaju u tvorničkim uvjetima

that we, hypocritically, wouldn't even consider

koje mi, licemjerno, ne bismo ni razmotrili

for our own cats, dogs and other pets.

za naše mačke, pse i druge ljubimce.

Environmentally, meat, amazingly,

Okolišno, meso, čudesno,

causes more emissions

izaziva više emisije

than all of transportation combined:

nego sav transport zajedno,

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

automobili, vlakovi, avioni, autobusi, brodovi, svi zajedno.

And beef production uses 100 times the water

A proizvodnja govedine koristi 100 puta više vode

that most vegetables do.

nego većina biljaka.

I also knew that I'm not alone.

Također znam kako nisam sam.

We as a society

Mi, kao društvo

are eating twice as much meat

jedemo dva puta više mesa

as we did in the 50s.

nego u 1950-ima.

So what was once the special little side treat

Ono što je nekada bio specijalitet, mala poslastica,

now is the main, much more regular.

danas je glavno, više redovito jelo.

So really, any of these angles

Stvarno, svaki od tih pogleda

should have been enough to convince me to go vegetarian.

bi trebao biti dovoljan da postanem vegetarijanac.

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

Ipak, eto mene, pik, pik, pik,

tucking into a big old steak.

bodem u veliki, stari odrezak.

So why was I stalling?

Zašto sam odugovlačio?

I realized that what I was being pitched

Shvatio sam kako sam bio razapet

was a binary solution.

između binarnih rješenja.

It was either

Bilo je ili

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

si mesožder, ili si vegetarijanac.

and I guess I just wasn't quite ready.

Pretpostavljam kako ja jednostavno nisam bio spreman.

Imagine your last hamburger.

Zamisliti svoj zadnji hamburger.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

So my common sense,

Tako su moj zdravi razum,

my good intentions,

moje dobre namjere,

were in conflict with my taste buds.

bili u sukobu s mojim osjetilima okusa.

And I'd commit to doing it later,

Obvezao bih se kako ću to napraviti kasnije.

and not surprisingly, later never came.

I ne na veliko iznenađenje, kasnije nikada ne bi došlo.

Sound familiar?

Zvuči vam poznato?

So I wondered,

Pitao sam se,

might there be a third solution?

postoji li treće rješenje?

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

II razmišljao sam o tome. I dosjetio se jednog.

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

I to radim posljednjih godinu dana, i to je sjajno.

It's called weekday veg.

Zove se vegetarijanac radnim danom.

The name says it all:

Ime vam govori sve.

Nothing with a face Monday through Friday.

Ništa s licem od ponedjeljak do petka.

On the weekend, your choice.

Vikendom, vaš izbor.

Simple.

Jednostavno.

If you want to take it to the next level,

Ako želite otići na slijedeću razinu,

remember, the major culprits

zapamtite, glavni krivci,

in terms of environmental damage and health

u smislu štete za okoliš i zdravlje,

are red and processed meats.

su crvena i procesuirana mesa.

So you want to swap those out

Zato želite to zamijeniti za

with some good, sustainably harvested fish.

nekom dobrom, održivo uzgojenom ribom.

It's structured,

Strukturirano je,

so it ends up being simple to remember,

tako da je jednostavno za zapamtiti.

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

I nije strašno ako tu i tamo zgriješite.

After all, cutting five days a week

Uostalom, sudržavajući se pet dana u tjednu

is cutting 70 percent of your meat intake.

znači smanjiti 70% vaš unos mesa.

The program has been great, weekday veg.

Program je bio sjajan, vegetarijanac radnim danom.

My footprint's smaller,

Moj otisak je manji,

I'm lessening pollution,

manje zagađujem.

I feel better about the animals,

Bolje se osjećam razmišljajući o životinjama.

I'm even saving money.

Štedim novac.

Best of all, I'm healthier,

Najbolje od svega, zdraviji sam.

I know that I'm going to live longer,

Znam da ću živjeti duže,

and I've even lost a little weight.

i čak sam izgubio malo na težini.

So, please ask yourselves,

Zato se molim vas, zapitajte,

for your health,

za vaše zdravlje,

for your pocketbook,

za vaš novac,

for the environment, for the animals:

za okoliš, za životinje,

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

što vas sprječava da pokušate s vegetarijanstvom radnim danom?

After all, if all of us

Nakon svega, kada bi svi mi

ate half as much meat,

jeli upola manje mesa,

it would be like half of us

bilo bi kao da je polovica nas

were vegetarians.

vegetarijanci.

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)