How to get started with Meatless Monday
Simple steps to starting a Meatless Monday practice for anyone who's not sure where to begin
Resources
Find everything you need to start a Meatless Monday program on our resource page, including fact sheets, sample campaigns, social media assets, and inspiring success stories about programs around the world. Our filters can help you refine your search for peer-reviewed research, white papers, and reports.
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6 Week Newsletter Copy for Hospitals, Colleges, K–12, Organizations and Foodservice
A 6-week introductory newsletter that features essential resources and foundational principles of Meatless Monday.
A critical examination of the available data sources for estimating meat and protein consumption in the USA
This paper describes the methods, strengths, and limitations of available data sources for estimating U.S. meat and protein consumption.
A Meatless Monday challenge accepted in Bedford, New York
Small town lowers its carbon footprint with help from plant-based eating.
A quick guide to plant-based proteins
Guide to understanding, identifying, and cooking with plant-based proteins
Adoption of the ‘planetary health diet’ has different impacts on countries’ GHG emissions
This brief demonstrates the importance of considering the impact of dietary shifts at country levels to accurately inform climate change mitigation policy and actions.
Beans: Posters
Celebrate all the wonderful things beans can do with our eye-catching and informative posters.
Benefits of a Meatless day for climate and water
This brief highlights the value of Meatless Monday as part of a wider effort to adopt plant forward diets, particularly in higher income countries.
Benefits of eating less meat (and more plants)
Fact sheet outlining the health, environmental, culinary, and cost benefits of eating less meat and more plant-based foods
Brief: Legumes as a sustainable source of protein in human diets
This brief summarizes findings on the pros and cons of increasing legume production and consumption to meet rising global protein demand.
Brief: The Role of Community-Based Efforts in Promoting Sustainable Diets: Lessons From a Grassroots Meat-Reduction Campaign
This case study explores a community-based approach to meat reduction by tracking changes in food knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and choices over nine months.
