People also need to be eased Into it. The stop eating meat approach doesn’t work but if you give me a good ass recipe to try and it just happens to not have meat Its not that big of a deal and nobody feels like they’re being converted.

I eat meat but being Mexican I also have plenty of recipes and meals that are vegetarian in nature. Enchiladas de queso fresco, tostadas de frijoles, sopes vegetarianos, caldo de garbanzo, esquites, calabasa y elote a la crema, quesadillas. Just to name a few off of the top of my head. That’s not even counting stuff like cereal, pancakes, etc. All of them are vegetarian and delicious and non were pushed on me for vegetarian reasons, they’re just a part of my culture. I have tried to make a small effort to eat a bit less meat for health reasons but I don’t think I’ll stop. If we approached the issue in another way we might get more people to just eat less meat and it’s a step in the right direction.

My fiancee is half salvadoreña and half Lebanese and when I told her she already eats a significant percentage of vegetarian meals she didn’t believe me until I went through her last weeks meals. Baby steps people, small baby hamster steps.