Can you go meat free for one week, or maybe even longer? Malta Meat Free Week challenge organised by VeggyMalta starts next Monday, the 16th and continues till the 22nd of October.

Individuals will take up the challenge to go one week zero meat in this sixth year since it first started.

The organisers said that it is the biggest challenge ever, targeted at increasing the growing local community of vegans, vegetarians and also flexitarians (people who consume very little meat).

The challenge this year is also endorsed by a number of environmental and animal NGOs including; Friends of the Earth Malta, Animal Liberation Malta (ALM), Vuci ghalll-Annimali, Sunshine Animal Sanctuary, Real Animal Rights (RAR), Association for Abandoned Animals (AAA), Help us Help (HUH), Island Sanctuary, Innocent Paws, Vuci Kollettiva, and Carers for Stray & Abandoned Felines CSAF.

Additionally, several personalities and influencers are supporting the challenge from Alison Bezzina the Commissioner for Animal Welfare along with several animal activists like Moira Delia and Althea Galea.

As part of the build up to the challenge, apart from short videos by supporting individuals the organisers are putting up a series of videos by Dr Antonella Grima (nutritionist) to help guide individuals about their concerns on going meat free.

Please see the Malta Meat Free Week website for more information.

To help individuals take the challenge this year, VeggyMalta said that there are over 30 brands on offers in participating supermarkets; Welbees, Pama & Pavi, Greens, Interspar & Eurospar, Lasco and Daves. The offers start one week before to give participants the chance to purchase food for the week.

This year’s campaign focuses on the environment, animals and health. All three issues which can be improved with one action, removing or reducing meat consumption. Malta Meat Free Week.

VeggyMalta Founder Darryl Grima (vegan) said “there are few actions an individual can do that have such a wide-reaching positive effect on the environment, biodiversity and animals and one’s own health.”

He said that it is calculated that meat and dairy production contributes around 14% of the total greenhouse emissions generated. This is equivalent to all the greenhouse gasses generated by all means of transport put together, including cars, planes, trains and ships.

“This is why a change in lifestyle can have such a positive impact. Along with this is the massive amount of habitat loss that this industry that creates which in turn is causing biodiversity loss,” concluded Grima.

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