Why I'm a weekday vegetarian | Graham Hill

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About a year ago,

Pre godinu dana,

I asked myself a question:

upitao sam se:

"Knowing what I know,

"Znajući to 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" momaka.

I grew up with hippie parents in a log cabin.

Odrastao sam sa hipi roditeljima u brvnari.

I started a site called TreeHugger --

Pokrenuo sam sajt nazvan Treehugger (onaj ko grli drveće).

I care about this stuff.

Stalo mi je do ovih stvari.

I knew that eating a mere hamburger a day

Znao sam da jedan hamburger dnevno

can increase my risk of dying by a third.

može da poveća šanse za moju smrt za trećinu.

Cruelty: I knew that the 10 billion

Okrutnost: znao sam da 10 milijardi

animals we raise each year for meat

životinja koje se godišnje odgajaju za meso,

are raised in factory farm conditions

odrastaju u fabričkim uslovima

that we, hypocritically, wouldn't even consider

koje mi, licemerno, ne bismo ni razmotrili

for our own cats, dogs and other pets.

za naše mačke, pse i ostale ljubimce.

Environmentally, meat, amazingly,

Ekološki, meso, začuđujuće,

causes more emissions

izaziva više emisija

than all of transportation combined:

nego svi transporti zajedno:

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

automobili, vozovi, avioni, autobusi, brodovi, sve to.

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.

Takođe sam znao sa nisam usamljen.

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 '50. godinama.

So what was once the special little side treat

Dakle što je nekad bio poseban dodatak, mala poslastica,

now is the main, much more regular.

sada je glavno, više redovno.

So really, any of these angles

I zaista, bilo koji od ovih uglova

should have been enough to convince me to go vegetarian.

trebalo je da bude dovoljan da postanetem vegetarijanac.

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

Ipak, eto mene, čk, čk, čk,

tucking into a big old steak.

ubadam u veliki, dobro poznati odrezak.

So why was I stalling?

Zašto sam odugovlačio?

I realized that what I was being pitched

Shvatio sam da sam bio razapet

was a binary solution.

između dvostrukog izbora.

It was either

A to je,

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

ili si mesožder ili si vegetarijanac.

and I guess I just wasn't quite ready.

I pretpostavljam da nisam bio potpuno spreman.

Imagine your last hamburger.

Zamislite svoj poslednji hamburger.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

So my common sense,

I tako su moj zdrav razum,

my good intentions,

moje dobre namere,

were in conflict with my taste buds.

bili u sukobu sa mojim receptorima ukusa.

And I'd commit to doing it later,

I obavezao bih se da ću to uraditi kasnije.

and not surprisingly, later never came.

I ne iznenađuje, kasnije nikada nije došlo.

Sound familiar?

Zvuči poznato?

So I wondered,

Pitao sam se,

might there be a third solution?

da li postoji treća mogućnost?

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

Razmišljao sam o tome. I došao sam do jedne.

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

Primenjujem je poslednjih godinu dana i sjajno je.

It's called weekday veg.

Zove se vegetarijanac radnim danom.

The name says it all:

Ime kaže sve.

Nothing with a face Monday through Friday.

Ništa sa licem, od ponedeljka do petka.

On the weekend, your choice.

Vikendom, vaš izbor.

Simple.

Jednostavno.

If you want to take it to the next level,

Ako hoćete da pređete na sledeći nivo,

remember, the major culprits

zapamtite, glavni krivci,

in terms of environmental damage and health

u smislu štete po životnu sredinu i zdravlje,

are red and processed meats.

jesu crvena i prerađena mesa.

So you want to swap those out

Dakle želite to da zamenite

with some good, sustainably harvested fish.

nekom dobrom, održivo uzgajanom ribom.

It's structured,

Struktuirano je,

so it ends up being simple to remember,

tako da je lako za zapamtiti.

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

I u redu je prekršiti je tu i tamo.

After all, cutting five days a week

Uostalom, suzdržavanje pet dana nedeljno

is cutting 70 percent of your meat intake.

je smanjenje 70 procenata ličnog udela u mesu.

The program has been great, weekday veg.

Vegetarijanac radnim danom je sjajan program.

My footprint's smaller,

Moj otisak je manji,

I'm lessening pollution,

smanjujem zagađenje.

I feel better about the animals,

Osećam se bolje u vezi sa životinjama,

I'm even saving money.

čak 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 živeti duže

and I've even lost a little weight.

i čak sam izgubio koji kilogram.

So, please ask yourselves,

Molim vas, zapitajte se,

for your health,

za svoje zdravlje,

for your pocketbook,

za vaš budžet,

for the environment, for the animals:

za okolinu, za životinje,

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

šta vas sprečava da date šansu vegetarijanstvu radnim danima?

After all, if all of us

Uostalom, ako bismo svi mi

ate half as much meat,

jeli upola manje mesa,

it would be like half of us

bilo bi kao da smo polovina nas

were vegetarians.

vegetarijanci.

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(aplauz)