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Bedford 2020’s Meatless Mondays Foster Community Through Sustainable Eating Bedford 2020’s Meatless Mondays Foster Community Through Sustainable Eating
Bedford 2020’s Meatless Mondays Foster Community Through Sustainable Eating BEDFORD, N.Y. -- With over 300 households signed on and a selection of popular local businesses as partners, Bedford 2020’s Meatless Monday program is sweeping Bedford and beyond. The Meatless Monday platform was selected to raise awareness about the connection between food choice and carbon footprint. A plant-based diet has a smaller carbon footprint than a meat intensive one, and cutting out meat for even one day a week can have a great impact on the planet. “I am astonished by the amount of resources a pound of beef sucks up—between the water and feed, it's just an inefficient protein,”…

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