Eat Your Veggies!

I asked my professor for some suggestions on improving my lifestyle and he suggested I take the following quiz: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/  I recommend taking the extra few minutes to do the "detailed" answers rather than the quick version.  Once I took the test, I was surprised to see that it would take 3.9 planets to sustain my lifestyle.  Here I thought I was not making much of an impact, being a stay at home mom (not driving many places), recycling, trying to live responsibly...  The thing that surprised me the most was that eating meat and animal products really increases your global footprint.  I have thought a lot about switching to a more vegetarian diet for health reasons, but it has been hard convincing my husband who LOVES his meat.  He grew up on a farm raising hogs, and I know that his father looked down upon vegetarians so that has rubbed off.  Apparently it's manly to love meat and lots of it!  I am going to attempt to talk to my better half and see if he'd be willing to switch to a diet with less meat products.  Moral of the story is eat more veggies and less meat!