Why I'm a weekday vegetarian | Graham Hill

Translator: Alisa Xholi Reviewer: Helena Bedalli

About a year ago,

Rreth nje vit me pare,

I asked myself a question:

i bera vetes nje pyetje:

"Knowing what I know,

"Duke ditur ato qe di

why am I not a vegetarian?"

pse nuk jam vegjetarian?"

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

Ne fund te fundit jam nje nga ata tipat ekologjik:

I grew up with hippie parents in a log cabin.

Jam rritur me prinder hippie ne nje kasolle me trungje.

I started a site called TreeHugger --

U bera nismetar i nje faqeje interneti te quajtur PerqafuesPemesh--

I care about this stuff.

Mua me interesojne keto gjera.

I knew that eating a mere hamburger a day

E dija se duke ngrene nje hamburger ne dite

can increase my risk of dying by a third.

mund te rris rrezikun e vdekjes me nje te trete.

Cruelty: I knew that the 10 billion

Mizore: E dija se 10 miliard

animals we raise each year for meat

kafshe qe ne rrisim cdo vit per mish

are raised in factory farm conditions

rriten nen kushtet e fermave fabrikuese

that we, hypocritically, wouldn't even consider

qe ne, ne menyre hipokrite, as nuk do e merrnim ne konsiderate

for our own cats, dogs and other pets.

per macet, qente ose kafshe te tjera te cilat na perkasin.

Environmentally, meat, amazingly,

Nga pikepamja e mjedisit, mishi, cuditerisht,

causes more emissions

shkakton me shume emetime

than all of transportation combined:

se sa i gjithe kombinimi i transporteve:

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

makina, trena, avione, autobuza, varka, te gjitha bashke.

And beef production uses 100 times the water

Dhe prodhimi i mishit te lopes perdor 100 here me shume uje

that most vegetables do.

se sa gjithe perimet.

I also knew that I'm not alone.

Gjithashtu e dija se nuk jam vetem.

We as a society

Ne si shoqeri

are eating twice as much meat

ushqehemi me mish dy here me shume

as we did in the 50s.

se sa ne vitet 50-te.

So what was once the special little side treat

Pra ajo cka dikur ishte nje kenaqesi e vogel dhe e vecante

now is the main, much more regular.

tashme eshte kryesore, shume me rregullisht.

So really, any of these angles

Pra realisht, cilido nga keto pikepamje

should have been enough to convince me to go vegetarian.

duhet te ishte mjaftueshem per te me bindur qe te kthehem ne nje vegjetarian.

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

Po, ja ku isha --cek, cek, cek--

tucking into a big old steak.

duke u palosur ne nje biftek te madh.

So why was I stalling?

Pra pse po ndaloja?

I realized that what I was being pitched

Kuptova se ajo qe une isha duke u larguar

was a binary solution.

ishte nje zgjidhje dyjore.

It was either

Ishte ose

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

ti je nje mishngrenes ose je nje vegjetarian,

and I guess I just wasn't quite ready.

dhe me sa duket nuk isha ende gati.

Imagine your last hamburger.

Imagjinoni hamburgerin tuaj te fundit.

(Laughter)

(te qeshura)

So my common sense,

Pra mendimi im praktik,

my good intentions,

qellimet e mia te mira,

were in conflict with my taste buds.

ishin ne konflikt me shijet e mia.

And I'd commit to doing it later,

U angazhova per ta bere me vone,

and not surprisingly, later never came.

por "me vone" nuk erdhi kurre.

Sound familiar?

E keni degjuar me pare?

So I wondered,

Pra pyeta veten,

might there be a third solution?

a mund te kete nje zgjidhje te trete?

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

E mendova dhe perfundova ne nje.

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

Po e bej keto vitet e fundit, dhe eshte fantastike.

It's called weekday veg.

Quhet dita jave vegjetariane.

The name says it all:

Emri i thote te gjitha:

Nothing with a face Monday through Friday.

Asgje me fytyre nga e hena ne te premte.

On the weekend, your choice.

Ne fundjave zgjedhja eshte e juaja.

Simple.

E thjeshte.

If you want to take it to the next level,

Nese doni te kaloni ne nivelin tjeter,

remember, the major culprits

mbani mend keqberesit kryesor

in terms of environmental damage and health

ne termat e demtimit te mjedisit dhe shendetit

are red and processed meats.

dhe te mishit kuq te perpunuar.

So you want to swap those out

Pra mendoni ti shkembeni ato

with some good, sustainably harvested fish.

me pak peshk te mirekultivuar.

It's structured,

Eshte e strukturuar,

so it ends up being simple to remember,

dhe perfundon e lehte per tu mbajtur mend,

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

dhe eshte ne rregull sikur ta shkelesh tek tuk.

After all, cutting five days a week

Ne fund te fundit, duke hequr pese dite ne jave

is cutting 70 percent of your meat intake.

do te thote te ulesh 70 perqind te konsumit te mishit.

The program has been great, weekday veg.

Programi ka qene fantastik, ditet e javes vegjetariane.

My footprint's smaller,

Gjurma ime eshte e vogel,

I'm lessening pollution,

po e pakesoj ndotjen,

I feel better about the animals,

ndihem me mire per kafshet,

I'm even saving money.

madje po kursej dhe para.

Best of all, I'm healthier,

Por mbi te gjitha, jam me i shendetshem,

I know that I'm going to live longer,

e di qe do jetoj me gjate,

and I've even lost a little weight.

madje kam humbur dhe pak peshe.

So, please ask yourselves,

Ndaj ju lutem pyesni veten tuaj,

for your health,

per shendetin tuaj,

for your pocketbook,

per kuleten tuaj,

for the environment, for the animals:

per mjedisin, per kafshet:

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

Cfare ju ndalon per te provuar diten e javes vegjetariane?

After all, if all of us

Ne fund te fundit, nese te gjithe ne

ate half as much meat,

ushqeheshim me gjysmen e mishit

it would be like half of us

do ishte sikur gjysem nga ne

were vegetarians.

te ishim vegjetarian.

Thank you.

Faleminderit.

(Applause)

(Duartrokitje)