Why I'm a weekday vegetarian | Graham Hill

翻译人员: Coco Shen 校对人员: Geoff Chen

About a year ago,

大概在一年前左右

I asked myself a question:

我问了我自己一个问题

"Knowing what I know,

”我明明知道这些资讯，

why am I not a vegetarian?"

为什么我不是个素食者？“

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

毕竟我支持环保，热爱绿概念

I grew up with hippie parents in a log cabin.

和嬉皮父母在小木屋里长大

I started a site called TreeHugger --

我开了一个叫 Treehugger 的网站 － 抱树网

I care about this stuff.

我很关心这些东西

I knew that eating a mere hamburger a day

我知道光是每天吃一个汉堡

can increase my risk of dying by a third.

就能增加三分之一的死亡几率

Cruelty: I knew that the 10 billion

我知道每年我们养殖100亿动物

animals we raise each year for meat

就为了他们身上的肉

are raised in factory farm conditions

而这些动物生活的那种工厂环境

that we, hypocritically, wouldn't even consider

是我们根本无法想象自己的

for our own cats, dogs and other pets.

猫，或是宠物可以居住的

Environmentally, meat, amazingly,

就环境来说，肉品排放的二氧化碳

causes more emissions

神奇的

than all of transportation combined:

比所有交通工具的排放量还大

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

汽车、火车

And beef production uses 100 times the water

制造肉所使用的水

that most vegetables do.

是蔬菜的一百倍

I also knew that I'm not alone.

我也知道我并不孤单

We as a society

整个社会

are eating twice as much meat

现在我们所吃的肉

as we did in the 50s.

足足比50年代多了两倍

So what was once the special little side treat

曾经我们当作特别的小食

now is the main, much more regular.

现在却成了我们的日常主食

So really, any of these angles

说真的，以任何角度来说

should have been enough to convince me to go vegetarian.

都应该足以让我成为素食者

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

但我还是嗯，嗯，嗯

tucking into a big old steak.

被一块巨大的牛排包围着

So why was I stalling?

我到底在迟疑什么？

I realized that what I was being pitched

我发觉那是因为这是因为

was a binary solution.

我把它当作一个二分法的问题

It was either

你需要决定

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

你到底是吃肉还是吃素

and I guess I just wasn't quite ready.

我想我实在没做好心理准备

Imagine your last hamburger.

想象最后的一个汉堡

(Laughter)

（笑声）

So my common sense,

于是乎我的常识

my good intentions,

我的用意良善

were in conflict with my taste buds.

和我的味蕾产生了矛盾

And I'd commit to doing it later,

我总是想着之后再做

and not surprisingly, later never came.

之后却永远不会来

Sound familiar?

听起来很熟悉吗？

So I wondered,

于是我想着，

might there be a third solution?

或许应该有第三种选择？

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

经过思考以后，我想出了一个

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

去年我便这么实行，感觉很好

It's called weekday veg.

叫做周间素食

The name says it all:

事如其名

Nothing with a face Monday through Friday.

礼拜一到五不吃任何有脸的东西

On the weekend, your choice.

周末，自由选择

Simple.

如此简单

If you want to take it to the next level,

如果你想更进一步

remember, the major culprits

记得红肉和经处理的肉类

in terms of environmental damage and health

是今日破坏环境和健康的

are red and processed meats.

罪魁祸首

So you want to swap those out

如果你想要和它们说不

with some good, sustainably harvested fish.

你也可以改为食用一些以不破坏环境平衡养殖的鱼类

It's structured,

有了这样的规律

so it ends up being simple to remember,

就比较容易记得

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

偶尔犯戒也没关系

After all, cutting five days a week

毕竟五天不吃肉

is cutting 70 percent of your meat intake.

是减少七成的肉

The program has been great, weekday veg.

我很喜欢周间素食这个点子

My footprint's smaller,

我的碳足迹小了

I'm lessening pollution,

我减低了污染

I feel better about the animals,

我对动物感觉好些了

I'm even saving money.

甚至还存了一点钱

Best of all, I'm healthier,

最棒的是，我更健康了

I know that I'm going to live longer,

我知道我会更长命

and I've even lost a little weight.

甚至还瘦了一些

So, please ask yourselves,

于是，请大家今天自问

for your health,

为了你的健康

for your pocketbook,

你的财富

for the environment, for the animals:

为了环境和动物

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

为什么不试试做个周间的素食者呢？

After all, if all of us

如果我们所有人都少吃

ate half as much meat,

一半的肉

it would be like half of us

那就像我们之中有一半人

were vegetarians.

是素食者一样。

Thank you.

谢谢大家

(Applause)

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