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Spiced Red Lentil + Sweet Potato Burger By @shanyaraleonie 💚

This burger has a Brown Rice Miso base with purple cabbage, a spiced red lentil + sweet potato patty, fresh spinach and avocado topped off with a fresh coriander sauce. Recipe:  Patty Makes 3 large or 4 small/ medium patties Prep time: 10 min., Cooking time: 15-20 min. Ingredients 1 tbsp flax egg (mix 1 Tbsp flax seed + 3 Tbsp water) 1 cup cooked sweet potato 1 cup cooked red lentils 1 heaping tbsp paprika salt + pepper to taste 1 tbsp cumin ½ tsp vegetable broth powder (optional) ½ tsp chili (to taste) 2 garlic cloves ½ onion ¼ cup chia powder  Instructions 1. Prepare the flax egg and leave it in the fridge for at least 5 min. 2. In a pan over medium heat roast up the finely chopped garlic + onion for 2 min. Add a bit of balsamic vinegar for that extra flavor kick. 3. Mix everything together in a big bowl and form little patties. 4. Throw them in a pan over medium heat and turn them every 3-4 min. You can use coconut oil or water to keep them from sticking. (Or whatever else you prefer of course) 5. Enjoy hot or cold, they’re also great to freeze. Coriander Sauce Prep time: 3 min. Ingredients handful fresh coriander splash of lime juice 1 tbsp tahini 1 tbsp hemp seeds salt + pepper to taste optional: ½ tsp Arrowroot Starch to thicken the sauce Instructions 1. Just mix – in a blender or food processor. Enjoy! #LetsCookVegan

Vegan Food Lovers Features Viola raw cake 💛💜💛 By @veganfoodblogveda www.facebook.com/Veganfoodlovers

Ingredients for 10 inch round mould I recommend to use organic ingredients

Base: - 20 pitted dates - ½ cup water - 1 cup sunflower seeds - 1/3 pumpkin seeds - 1 tbsp carob powder - 1 tbsp cacao powder - ½ cup coconut flour

Yellow filling: - 1 ½ cup overnight soaked cashew - 1 cup melted coconut oil - 1/3 cup agave syrup or maple syrup - ½ cup fresh orange juice - ½ cup fresh carrot juice - 3 tbsp orange zest

Violet filling: - 1 ½ cup overnight soaked cashew - 1 cup melted coconut oil - 1/3 agave syrup or maple syrup - juice of one lime - 1 cup bilberry juice - 1 tsp edible dried lavender flower

+ edible viola flowers for decoration

Method: 1. Place base ingredients in a food processor, pulse until desired texture. If the ingredients hold together, the crust is ready. 2. Press the crust in the mould 3. Place it in the freezer for about 30 min. 4. Blend very well the ingredients of violet filling until smooth and creamy 5. Pour violet filling in a bowl and set aside 6. Wash your blender jar and blend very well the ingredients of yellow filling until smooth and creamy 7. Take the crust from the freezer and pour the violet and yellow fillings alternately onto the frozen crust, making swirls 8. Place the cake in the freezer for at least 5-6 hours. 9. Set the cake out 30 minutes before serving, cut the cake and decorate with flowers.

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Today I was talking with a friend about how many people with large followings don’t use their platforms for any sort of good, to spread awareness for a cause or bring attention to something that desperately needs to be talked about. So here’s my spiel on why we need to cut back on meat consumption in first world countries to my smaller-than-most-but-still-significant following:

To start out: my whole family eats meat. I have maybe two friends who are vegetarian. I ate fish and chicken up until I was 16. I became a vegetarian at 16 because, primarily, I thought of it as some small challenge that would be fun, as I didn’t have any sort of attachment to meat/fish/poultry and never enjoyed the taste. During my senior year of high school I took a college level environmental studies class that completely changed my view on eating a plant-based diet.

It’s no secret that the global population is not sustainable. Here’s a visual with projected numbers up to 2050:

In only eight short years, the global population is projected to grow to eight billion people. If we’re speaking strictly by numbers of people, countries such as India are the problem, with the many seven children households. The US has nearly one billion less people than India. But wait! The US energy consumption, what with our roughly 323 million people, uses overall nearly four times as much energy as the nearly 1.3 billion people strong India. 

Here’s how the US ratio of population to energy consumption stands up to other large countries:

Okay, so why is a population of 8 billion people unsustainable? Easy: energy. Energy is a finite resource. Sure, we have renewable forms of energy like solar and wind, but those sources are fickle and don’t provide nearly as much energy as fossil fuels do. Our world could not operate the way it does without fossil fuels. 

There are about 1.3 trillion proven oil reserves left in the world (that’s not to say we won’t find more – we almost certainly will), about enough to last us, at the rate we are currently using it, the next 40 years. However much oil you believe there to be yet discovered, the fact is that oil is a finite resource and we will run out eventually, very possibly in the next century. 

So where does all the oil go? 

Mostly, towards transportation (BUY LOCAL!!!!!). 17% of the fossil fuel use in the US goes towards agriculture. This is almost one fifth of the US total fossil fuel use. 

I digress: This seems like a relatively small percentage, so why do I stress the importance of a plant-based diet? Cutting meat out of your diet even one day a week makes a larger difference in your carbon footprint than taking the bus or cutting down on your shower time or the amount of heat you use in your home does. In short, it’s a very, very easy way to be conscious of and help the environment.

 The next part of the equation is common sense: if all of the grain fed to livestock was instead fed to people, we could feed hundreds of millions of people and save loads of energy. Here’s a quote from an article I found on Cornell’s website:

“Chicken meat production consumes energy in a 4:1 ratio to protein output; beef cattle production requires an energy input to protein output ratio of 54:1. (Lamb meat production is nearly as inefficient at 50:1, according to the ecologist’s analysis of U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics. Other ratios range from 13:1 for turkey meat and 14:1 for milk protein to 17:1 for pork and 26:1 for eggs.)” 

Now let’s focus on water for a second. Water is currently projected to be the world’s next most fought-over resource. What are the repercussions of a meat-based diet on our most important natural resource? 

“Grain-fed beef production takes 100,000 liters of water for every kilogram of food. Raising broiler chickens takes 3,500 liters of water to make a kilogram of meat. In comparison, soybean production uses 2,000 liters for kilogram of food produced; rice, 1,912; wheat, 900; and potatoes, 500 liters.”

“’More than half the U.S. grain and nearly 40 percent of world grain is being fed to livestock rather than being consumed directly by humans,’ Pimentel said. ‘Although grain production is increasing in total, the per capita supply has been decreasing for more than a decade. Clearly, there is reason for concern in the future.’”

Other problems created by the agriculture industry include soil erosion and land use. A quote from a different article written by the same scientist states:

“The US food production system uses about 50% of the total US land area, 80% of the fresh water, and 17% of the fossil energy used in the country.”

And here are some interesting facts from the first article I cited:

“The 7 billion livestock animals in the United States consume five times as much grain as is consumed directly by the entire American population.”

“Each year an estimated 41 million tons of plant protein is fed to U.S. livestock to produce an estimated 7 million tons of animal protein for human consumption.”

“About 90 percent of U.S. cropland is losing soil – to wind and water erosion – at 13 times above the sustainable rate. Soil loss is most severe in some of the richest farming areas; Iowa loses topsoil at 30 times the rate of soil formation. Iowa has lost one-half its topsoil in only 150 years of farming – soil that took thousands of years to form.”

(Here’s a layman’s reference: remember Insterstellar? Yeah, that wasn’t just some unrealistic dystopian sci-fi thriller.)

“If all the U.S. grain now fed to livestock were exported and if cattlemen switched to grass-fed production systems, less beef would be available and animal protein in the average American diet would drop from 75 grams to 29 grams per day. That, plus current levels of plant-protein consumption, would still yield more than the RDA for protein.”

Here is a link to the article for anyone interested: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-million-people-grain-livestock-eat

“But….but we were meant to eat meat! It’s a primal human instinct!” Yeah…only about 2 billion people live primarily on a meat-based diet. Yep, that’s all of us privileged first-world country inhabitants! The people living lifestyles closest to those of our ancestors survive on a primarily plant-based diet. Take away the modern machinery and it’s amazing what we can’t do! Well, actually…we can’t do what we weren’t meant to do. 

No, I don’t hate meat eaters. Nearly everyone I know is a meat eater. Eat all the meat you want! Just be aware of the environmental cost of your daily ham sandwich – extra ham. Cutting meat out of your diet one day a week is an incredibly easy thing to do. In fact, you may discover just how great vegetables and plant-based proteins can taste! I hope at least some people take the time to read this and think about how the world’s future is in each person’s hands Xx

I’m actually planning on doing this now thanks for the insight lol

Yay so happy :) every little effort counts

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